London House News

It has been a busy month at London House. Firstly, I am pleased to advise of two new Franchise Owners.

Andrew Beard  joins us from a background as a Senior Insurance and Re-insurance underwriter with considerable international experience. Andrew has taken over the Norwich postcode area from Ted and Linda Witton who have retired. Welcome Andrew. London House Services Norfolk

Also joining us is Graham Stowell who will be covering the Oxford postcode area. Graham is a QA and QC professional with UK and international experience with the Dept. of Health, Glaxo Smith Kline and Siemens. He is also a Director of a currency exchange and trading business. Again, welcome aboard.

London House Services Oxford

As mentioned last month we will be exhibiting at the NEC twice in October. The first event is the National Franchise Exhibition on 5th & 6th (stand number H65) and then we are back at the venue on the 9th and 10th for the Solicitors Group exhibition, LawAutumn NEC (stand number 10). Do please come along and chat to us, we would be delighted to see you.

We have recently attended the annual Credit Services Association conference. The conference had its highest ever attendance and it was great to catch up again with industry peers. A very informative conference from which it became clear that compliance and regulation is becoming ever more prominant in our industry. No bad thing.

Finally, the latest edition of The Score will shortly be arriving at your offices, but is now available on line. I hope you enjoy it.

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We are delighted to advise that, again, we are in the middle of training our newest Franchise Owner. John Ginivan has taken on the Romford area (RM postcodes) and will be trading as a limited company "London House Services (Romford and Thurrock) Ltd".

John has a BSc (Hons) degree and has been a senior manager in investment banking with many years experience with ABN Amro Bank.  Previously he had spells with Goldman Sachs and Commerzbank.  John is experienced with the full product range including risk and reconciliation. Welcome aboard John.

 London House Services (Romford and Thurrock) Ltd 

Further training courses are also booked in the diary for more new Franchise Owners and we will give more information next month. 

Our South East London Franchise Owners, Chris Metalle and Chris Richards, have expanded their rapidly growing business by merging with the asset recovery business, L and E Receivables. The combined operation will continue to offer asset finance companies quality management of their arrears cases with the added benefit of greater geographical coverage and more advanced systems. Alex Barnetson of L and E has joined the board of LTR as the director responsible for arrears management. We send our best wishes for this new and exciting venture which offers finance houses a service in tracing and negotiating with clients in arrears and recovering the assets, particularly vehicles, from anywhere in the UK if required through the London House network. Press release

Finally, our latest edition of "The Score" will shortly be arriving on your desks. It is available now online by clicking on the link in the left hand column. We hope you enjoy it.

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As mentioned last month, we are now pleased to confirm that we have been joined by a further two new Franchise Owners. Both have purchased existing offices from retiring Franchisees.

Liz Collins has joined us as the Franchise Owner for Manchester. Liz is a BSc graduate in criminology and until recently has been working in the NHS and on a voluntary basis at her local prison. Liz has purchased her area from Trevor Williams, who had been with us for 15 years. Liz will cover the Manchester postcode area.

  

Meanwhile, Mark Holmes has joined us as Franchise Owner for Fordingbridge (Portsmouth, Southampton, Bournemouth, Dorset, Salisbury). Mark joins us with all round business experience having been Managing Director of his own distribution company for many years. Mark has bought his area from Jim and John Davies who have decided to spend more time working in their accountancy practice. Mark has a large area and will cover the BH, DT, SP, SO and PO postcodes.

Welcome to you both.

Many thanks to Trevor, Jim and John for their past support and we wish them well for the future.

Finally, the latest edition of The Score was sent out just before Christmas. Please  let us know if you have not received your copy, or please use the link in this blog to access.

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As you read this we are in the process of training another new Franchise Owner.

Julia Bradbury has joined us and will be our Franchise Owner for the Leeds area. Julia is a qualified Accountant with a background of senior managerial experience. Welcome Julia. In addition, further training programmes are now booked for later in the year, and more details about these next month.

Our latest edition of The Score is now out and you can access an on-line copy by clicking on the link in the left hand column. We hope you enjoy it. If you would also like to receive a hardcopy, please let us know.

Finally, we attended this month the Annual CSA Conference in Birmingham. As ever, an excellent conference with good speakers, informative workshops and great networking opportunities.

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We enjoyed a spectacular day last month at The Grosvenor House Hotel in London to celebrate St Georges Day.

This is our annual trip to the event where we entertain clients and friends and is a wonderful occasion. 1500 people gather in the Great Ballroom and are entertained by the band of The Blues & Royals and various speakers, have a delicious lunch and celebrate the day. Pomp and pageantry at its best!

    By now, if you are on our mailing list, you will have received the latest edition of The Score  and this is also available through our e-newsletter, our website and this blog. We hope you enjoy it.

     As part of our continuing work on raising the London House profile in the multi media world, we now have our own corporate channel on YouTube. At the moment we are showing videos that were taken at recent Franchise Exhibitions, but who knows how this project could develop for us over time. Have a look and let us know your thoughts.

London House on YouTube

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You will shortly be receiving the latest edition of our quarterly publication, "The Score", which we hope you enjoy. There is a link which will also give you access to the last four back issues.

Do please feel free to contact us with your comments and, as always, many thanks for your continued support of London House.

In the meantime, I would like to take this opportunity to wish  you a Very Happy Christmas and a Prosperous New Year from all of the team at London House.

Godfrey Lancashire.