Brokers strive for growth with series of recent acquisitions

Access has acquired AT Bell Insurance Brokers' client portfolio and staff in a bid to grab a larger share of the specialist charity and church market and help achieve its aim to grow the size of the company tenfold within the next decade.

Simon Hickman, managing director of Access, who set the ambitious growth target in 2008, said: "The plan was to first triple the size and then triple again and we are now close to achieving the first milestone.

"The next few years will be challenging but at the