Dawn, a former Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year, is to take centre stage at a high powered networking luncheon sponsored by Brabners Chaffe Street LLP and Coutts & Co.

She will present a talk at Coutts’ Manchester offices on October 2 entitled ‘A Walk on the Wild Side,’ which draws on examples from her own successful career.

Dawn started out in business by starting-up South Cheshire based flooring company Flowcrete, in 1982.

The company is now a multinational concern and was sold for millions of pounds earlier this year.

Dawn will also explain how she is injecting inspiration and innovation into her new luxury lifestyle brand, Barefoot Flooring - based on the edge of the Peak District, near to Macclesfield - which provides bespoke flooring for the consumer sector.

Founded by Dawn earlier this year, the company’s floors are designed to encourage people to lose their shoes and enjoy the feeling of freedom underfoot.

Dawn Gibbins said: “I am delighted to be able to speak to an audience of successful business women and hope to offer inspiration from my own journey through the world of commerce.”

Samantha Sharples, Private Banker at Coutts & Co, added: “We’re delighted to be working with our co-sponsors, Brabners Chaffe Street LLP to support Dawn with her innovative presentation and look forward to a successful networking event.”

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Notes to Editors

Barefoot Living, based on the edge of the Peak District, near to Macclesfield, brings together the positive influences of Feng Shui, healthy eating and other lifestyle factors to make the UK feel good. It is an enterprise founded by Dawn Gibbins MBE, ‘the barefoot entrepreneur.’

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Barefoot Phone number is 0845 388 08 08

Coutts & Co is the UK private banking arm of the Royal Bank of Scotland. The Royal Bank of Scotland Group is one of the world’s largest banking groups.

The first Coutts & Co regional office to be opened was Eton in 1961. Today Coutts & Co has regional offices in Bath, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Chelmsford, Eton, Guildford, Hampshire, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford, Reading, Sheffield and Tunbridge Wells.

Coutts & Co offers clients a range of products and services covering sophisticated investment products together with expertise in trust and fiduciary services and UK tax and banking services. Coutts’ commercial banking arm also provides a full banking service to UK businesses.

Coutts & Co is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Coutts & Co Registered in England No 36695 Registered Office 440 Strand, London, WC2R 0QS. Calls may be recorded.

Brabners Chaffe Street is a major North West law firm. It is recognised by Legal 500 in all of the core practice areas of commercial, corporate, employment, commercial litigation, private client and property law and its partners are widely acknowledged as leaders in their specialisms. The firm’s approach is to develop a full understanding of its clients and their businesses to form long term business relationships.

Brabners Chaffe Street LLP is ranked within The Lawyer’s top 100 law firms in the UK and recognised within the Legal 500 as one of the North West’s leading firms.

Last year the firm reported a turnover of £26million.

Its core practice areas are commercial, corporate, employment, commercial litigation, private client, property and sports law.

It currently employs 376 members of staff in offices in Liverpool, Manchester and Preston.

In 2008, Brabners Chaffe and Street LLP was listed at number 27 in The Sunday Times’ Best Companies survey, only one of two law firms to be mentioned within the top-30.

Other recent awards include the Groundwork Merseyside Responsible Business Award 2008 and the Gold Business Environmental Pledge award by Manchester City Council.