About Artaius
Artaius was founded in October 1993 by London Chartered Accountants Wilder Coe LLP. First known as the Marylebone Accounting Centre Ltd, or MACS, it was created to offer bookkeeping services to Wilder Coe clients.
In March 1997, Wilder Coe LLP partner Alfred Levy proposed a new way to take MACS into the 21st century, including a new office, outside London, and specialist staff providing additional back office services to attract new, and different, clients.
A year later, the MACS team moved to Stevenage, Hertfordshire. As the company developed, attracting clients from both home and overseas, a new name was needed and Artaius was chosen in a staff competition. The name, shared by a Celtic god and a successful racehorse of the 1970s, also catches the attention and makes people ask questions: who? And why Artaius?
In late 2000, Artaius became a senior partner with East of England International, the body which was then responsible for inward investment for the East Anglian region of the UK. Artaius is now on a list of outsourced administration service providers at UK Trade and Investment in most overseas countries and has been selected as a member of the UK Advisory Network. Artaius is a contributor to The Investors' Guide to the United Kingdom 2010/11.
Artaius has now grown to 20 team members, including its three directors, Robin Berry, Robert Coe and Ian Saunders. Now an international firm, with a worldwide client portfolio across a range of industry sectors from Australia, China, Hong Kong, India and New Zealand, to Europe, Canada and the USA, it has come a long way from bookkeeping!
