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Adnams - Adnams began brewing in 1872, with a passion for quality and an instinct for innovation. Our coastal home of Southwold has been part of our story for over 150 years – it’s where we craft our award-winning beers and spirits, and curate our exciting and eclectic wine range. We are proud of our heritage, and our values set us apart. We aim to run our business sustainably and our stores, hotels, pubs, and inns reflect the personalities of our incredible teams.

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Collins Skip Hire has been providing waste management solutions, delivering skips and roll-on containers across Suffolk and North Essex for 50 years from established local waste facilities.  Our customer range continues to be a cross of construction, commercial and domestic sectors, with many additional customers visiting our permitted waste facilities directly to dispose of waste, including asbestos.  Recycling and reclamation continue to be a large focus of the company's ethics, with a target of zero landfill. Staff are always at the end of a phone to discuss the issues for the best outcome.  www.collins-skiphire.co.uk

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Eastern Education Group represents a collective of outstanding education providers across the Eastern region. Eastern Education Group was formed in 2023 to reflect the expansion of our educational offering which spans from primary education through to adulthood.

With learners from the age of five to 75, we offer unparalleled learning opportunities at every age and every stage; from A Levels to Apprenticeships, degrees, vocational studies and more. Whether the goal is to go to university, gain functional skills, or kickstart a new career; we commit the same level of excellence to each of the thousands of students who walk through our doors every year.  www.easterneducationgroup.ac.uk 

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Sizewell C is a new 3.2GW nuclear power station being built on the Suffolk coast.  

A once-in-a-generation opportunity for East Suffolk, Sizewell C is creating thousands of new jobs, apprenticeships, and training opportunities for the region. It has allocated £250m in local funding, and once operational, it is expected to contribute £40m a year to the local economy and employ 900 people in high-skilled, well-paid jobs. 

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Alan Boswell Group is one of the UK’s largest independent insurance brokers and financial planning firms, with over 450 staff across seven offices. With more than 40 years’ experience, we provide expert advice on personal and commercial insurance, financial planning, and risk management. Our services include claims handling, underwriting, health and safety consultancy, and employee benefits. Renowned for exceptional service and trusted by thousands, we go the extra mile for our clients, our people, and our communities.

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Bentwaters Parks is a  family owned business comprising an ex USAF airfield and farmland just two hours drive from London. A collection of unique military buildings, various landscapes and commercial enterprise park. A well maintained and efficiently run site with a great diversity of buildings to let, from individual serviced offices to large industrial warehouses. The airfield offers a superb location for film and television with 24 hour security and many on-site resources and amenities.  A piece of modern history providing a flexible, low cost venue for business to prosper and grow.

Birketts is a full service, top 100 UK law firm. With a rich heritage spanning over 150 years we’ve built an enviable track record advising businesses, institutions and individuals in the UK and internationally.

Operating from offices across East Anglia and London, the firm shares a common culture and approach to service delivery. We are large enough to provide specialist expertise in most areas of the law, but not at the expense of maintaining a personal and tailored service.

We are flexible about everything except our reputation for maintaining the highest professional and ethical standards.

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RBC Brewin Dolphin serves clients throughout East Anglia from our dedicated offices in Ipswich and Norwich. Our experienced investment managers and financial planners deliver clear and individual advice tailored to your circumstances and attitude to risk. We pride ourselves on building enduring and trusting relationships with our clients, many of whom work within the agricultural sector. We are also active in our communities, supporting many local events and charitable causes.  The value of investments can fall and you may get back less than you invested.  

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Debach offers warehousing services and distribution solutions tailor-made to get your products to your customers efficiently, safely and in a cost effective way.  We provide you with the ultimate logistics service. Located 10 minutes from the Port of Felixstowe, we are ideally situated to offer a complete warehousing and distribution service throughout the UK.

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Glasswells - Glasswells is East Anglia’s largest independent home department store, providing the widest choice of quality furnishings at the very best value, paired with expert advice and a first-class service. The home furnishing superstores in Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich offer free parking for 200 cars, the popular Place to Eat in-store restaurant and a professional interior design service. They also have High Street branches in Haverhill and Saffron Walden, as well as offering home removals and storage, plus B2B services including contract flooring, document archiving and pallet Storage. Glasswells first exhibited at the Suffolk Show, in Rougham, in 1951, and have been proud sponsors of the Flower & Garden marquee since 2018.

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Greene King has been crafting quality beers from its historic breweries in Bury St Edmunds and Dunbar for over 200 years. The Westgate brewery, in Bury St Edmunds, has been the home of Greene King since 1799 and its leading cask ales are brewed here, including Greene King IPA and Abbot Ale, as well as a broad range of seasonal and speciality beers. In 2022 Greene King launched its premium portfolio which included two new craft beers, Level Head, a session IPA, and Flint Eye, a dry hopped lager, which embody Britain’s eccentric past, but are designed for the modern-day drinker.

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Larking Gowen Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors are a local, independent UK top 50 accountancy firm. We are committed to our clients, our people and our local community. We forge long-term relationships, helping us to deliver timely advice whenever you or your business needs it.  Whatever your financial needs, Larking Gowen is committed to securing your future and helping you reach your goals. 

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Rory J Holbrook Ltd - Founded in 1988, Rory J Holbrook Ltd is a family-run haulage, plant and aggregates supplier with over 35 years of industry experience. 

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The Benacre Company Limited is a traditional mixed farming estate and has been owned by the Gooch family since 1746. Our in-hand farm grows a variety of cereal and root crops, including asparagus. In 2023 we re-introduced cattle to Benacre after an absence of nearly 40 years and are gradually building up a herd of Hereford Cattle. We also have 90 residential cottages which are let and an attractive 19th century barn, which is available for hire for weddings www.woodfarmbarn.com or www.benacre.com.

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Binder - Fast, reliable and environmentally responsible liquid waste management solutions.  With over 50 years experience in off mains drainage, we are one of the UK's largest independent specialists in wastewater solutions.  From design, sales and installation to maintenance, refurbishments and emptying, we provide a complete care solution for customers relying on off mains drainage. As an independent company we liaise with a wide range of manufacturers, providing our clients with the most efficient, technologically effective solution for their waste water system needs. At Binder we can cover the entire process of waste water management, meaning our customers remain confident and satisfied with our exceptional levels of expertise, professionalism and care. 

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BMS.  For over four decades, BMS has transformed risk into progress, earning our place as one of the world’s leading insurance and reinsurance brokers. With 2000+ employees in 52 offices across the world, we bring together expertise, insight and ingenuity to provide our clients with the clarity and certainty they need, so they can prosper in a world of risk.

We’re more than a broker; we’re a risk partner.

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British Showjumping Business Partnership is the national governing body for showjumping in the UK. BS manages more than 4,200 shows each year providing in excess of 4,350 days of Showjumping for members.

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Charles Stanley, part of Raymond James Wealth Management, is one of the UK’s leading Wealth Management firms, providing bespoke investment portfolios and tailored financial advice at every stage of your financial journey. Established in 1998, our Ipswich team are here to help you gain a better understanding of your current financial situation and the options available to you. We seek to cultivate long-lasting relationships with our clients, offering them a truly personalised service; with many of our clients being with us for many, many years.

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COFCO International is active at every stage of the combinable crop supply chain.  We purchase cereals, oilseeds, and pulses from farmers nationwide, and supply them to the food, feed, and bioenergy sectors at home and abroad.  Our grain trading activity is complemented by our arable inputs business, supplying farmers with the full range of certified seeds and all grades of solid and liquid fertilisers.  Being part of a world-class agri-business gives us the financial strength and market intelligence to be a leading player in UK agriculture.

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Our ethos is providing clear, focused advice, saving you time and money.

Our attorneys are qualified, so be assured that all your intellectual property will be handled by experts. Your attorney’s experience means they can give clear advice, quickly and decisively, so you always know the options open to you, as well as a recommended course of actions.

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East Suffolk Produce are a co-operatively minded grower group producing 60,000 tonnes of ware potatoes and 3,500 tonnes of seed potatoes on and around the East Coast of Suffolk and Essex. In total this represents 1600 Ha’s of Potatoes. We specialise in early production from the beginning of June for new potatoes and the middle of July for Marfona and Maris Piper with Reds and King Edwards usually starting during the first week in August. We also store Whites, Piper, Maris Peer and Salad potatoes through the season. 

Gressingham Foods - is a family food business from farm to fork, passionate about duck, turkey and speciality poultry. Our mission is simple: to inspire more people to cook with duck.

A family business founded in 1971, Gressingham Foods is the only company in the world licensed to produce Gressingham Duck, a unique cross-breed of wild Mallard and Pekin renowned for its superior taste and higher percentage of breast meat. We proudly rear ducks from our high-welfare, Red Tractor assured farms across Great Britain. We also grow and supply turkeys, geese for Christmas and speciality poultry. For cooking tips and recipes to make your meals more memorable with duck visit.

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James Foskett Farms was formed in 2005 out of the partnership of H&J Foskett.  Through gradual expansion, the land base now covers 3500 acres and is made up of owned and rented land within a 35 mile radius of Low Farm, mostly in the Deben Valley. Potatoes are the most important crop to the business with onions not far behind. Other crops include sugarbeet, carrots, cereals and organic vegetables.  There is now modern crop storage at Low Farm for 9100 tonnes of produce as well as modern grading facilities, blast chilling, a weighbridge and a farm office.

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JM Finn is an award-winning wealth management firm that offers wealth and investment management services to cultivate and protect your wealth. With a sound risk-based approach at the heart of our services, we manage investments in line with clients’ circumstances and capacity for risk. By simplifying the financial challenges that investors face, we aim to protect and nurture wealth across generations. At JM Finn, we pride ourselves on our personalised approach and as a client, you’ll have a dedicated investment manager as a point of contact.

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Mills & Reeve Solicitors -  At Mills & Reeve, our 1,450 plus people and over 850 lawyers share one vision - achieving more for clients, their businesses and the wider communities we serve.  Our sector and market expertise helps us understand clients’ issues. Our technology and innovations help them achieve more with less effort. We build personal relationships, with advice individually tailored to individual need. If clients need things we don’t offer, we draw on our network to give recommendations.

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Scrutton Bland is a leading provider of professional financial advice to both business and private clients in Ipswich and beyond, that's been rooted in the community for over 100 years. Our dedicated agricultural and farming team provide proactive advice and a personal service to farming enterprises, landed estates and other rural businesses - offering accountancy accountancy, audit, corporate finance, and tax advice. From business accounts and audits to your tax plans for the future, we’ll help to put you on the right path.

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Specialist Passenger Solutions (SPS) is dedicated to delivering safe, reliable and efficient transport for the Sizewell C project. Drawing on our experience in large‑scale mobility operations, we provide high‑quality passenger transport designed to support the growing workforce travelling to and from the site. As a people‑focused business, we invest in our colleagues, technology and services to create a smooth and positive journey experience. Our expertly trained drivers prioritise safety, comfort and excellent customer service. SPS is part of First Bus.

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Survey Solutions is one of the UK’s largest engineering surveyors. With our head office in Ipswich, we work on some of the region’s most major construction projects. With an extensive office network across the UK, we deliver land, measured building and underground surveying solutions alongside structural monitoring, environmental monitoring and site engineering services. We have been proud partners of the Suffolk Show for a number of years.

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Tim White's Countryside Foundation-  We are a farming family foundation offering grants to agricultural students and to those already working within farming to help cover the burgeoning costs of training courses.  Our aim is to support the future of agriculture with a skilled workforce so it can progress and flourish. We also offer funding for social projects which promote agriculture, rural life and countryside conservation. 

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Ensors - As an award-winning, regional firm we cover all the areas you would expect us to, and more.  Our specialist agriculture team has unrivalled experience in dealing with the needs of farming and rural businesses of all types and sizes. We pride ourselves on a personalised approach, getting to know our clients and, hopefully, becoming not just accountants, but trusted family advisors and mentors.  Speed and efficiency are also major benefits of our specialist agriculture service. We understand the pressures facing the industry in these changing times.

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Howes Percival LLP has one of the region’s leading teams providing comprehensive legal and taxation advice for farmers, landowners and businesses. Contact them for advice on agriculture, estate planning, land ownership and business law.

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Osborne Refrigerators Ltd., established in 1960, is a market leading manufacturer of point of sale food, beverage, milk and wine refrigerators. They are today supplied to global food and drink producers and distributors. Osborne Refrigerators products are available to meet market conditions worldwide.

Proud to be a family owned British company, committed to making the minimum environmental impact, Osborne Refrigerators manufacture all their refrigerators on site at the factory in Bognor Regis, West Sussex.  They come in all shapes and sizes to suit different client requirements, both domestic and commercial, and can be liveried and customised to meet most applications. Always ahead in technology, always 100% British built.

Tattersalls . Founded in 1766, Tattersalls is the oldest bloodstock auctioneers in the world and the largest in Europe. Today, Tattersalls offers 12,000 horses each year across England, Ireland and online.

Amongst the 14 sales that Tattersalls holds each year at their Newmarket headquarters is the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, Europe’s premier yearling sale and unrivalled as a source of Group 1 winners, whilst the Tattersalls December Sale is widely regarded as the world’s most international sale and is where Group 1 winner Marsha sold for a European record 6,000,000 guineas.

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