24 | OCTOBER 2018
News
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GROSVENOR TO TRIPLE SIZE OF
ITS STRATEGIC LAND BUSINESS
Grosvenor Britain &
Ireland announces it
is seeking to triple the
size of its Strategic Land
business, targeting a
portfolio of at least 30,000
homes within the next five
years.
Grosvenor Britain & Ire-
land announces it is seek-
ing to triple the size of its
Strategic Land business,
targeting a portfolio of at
least 30,000 homes within
the next five years.
Led by the recently ap-
pointed Executive Director
for Grosvenor Develop-
ments, Jorge Mendonça,
Grosvenor’s Strategic
Land team aims to be the
market leader for deliver-
ing large scale sustainable
communities by focussing
on progressive and high
quality urban design inno-
vations, which are sensi-
tive to local communities
and the environment.
The business will identi-
fy and support the taking
of complex parcels of
brownfield and greenfield
land capable of host-
ing 2,000-5,000+ homes
through the planning sys-
tem, design and build out
process. Typically, these
sites will be in areas of
economic growth where
the need for new homes is
most acute.
Grosvenor has already
built its pipeline of homes
from 2,100 in summer 2017
to 9,300 today, with partners
including a range of local
authorities, corporate and
private land owners.
www.grosvenor.com
THE COMPUTER SAYS YES
All too often, it was a
case of ‘the computer says
no’ for Cumbernauld based
CMS Window Systems when
it was dealing with its pre-
vious software supplier. It
was refreshing then for it to
switch to Business Micros
and benefit from what CMS
describes as a ‘truly custom-
er orientated approach’.
CMS Window Systems is a
specialist window, door and
curtain walling fabricator
with a large social housing
customer base, so has quite
specific manufacturing and
reporting requirements
when compared with a typi-
cal trade supplier.
The team at Business
Micros has invested time
in understanding this and,
over the last four years, has
put together what is now a
completely bespoke software
package based on the Evolu-
tion and EvoNET platforms.
In terms of payback, CMS
calculates the value of the
Business Micros software
in terms of the ongoing
functionality and features
it offers. It is continually
adding new reports within
EvoNET and says that social
housing clients appreciate
the insight that this brings
to their relationship with
CMS.
Using Evolution and
EvoNET, CMS has complete
barcode scanning of its
factory and can track every
profile and glass unit from
delivery to despatch. This
ensures that it can identify
problems or errors before
they ever become visible
to the client and helps to
ensure that it can maintain
an efficient, right first-time
service.
www.cmswindows.com
www.businessmicros.co.uk
NEW MANAGING
DIRECTOR FOR SIG
UK EXTERIORS
SIG UK Exteriors, the UK’s
leading construction materials
supplier, is pleased to announce
the appointment of Guy Bruce
as its new Managing Director.
With over 20 years of
leadership experience, Guy
joined SIG in July 2018
following eight years with
leading global support
services and Construction
Company, Interserve plc. As
a member of the Support
Services Board, here Guy
led the turnaround and
growth of their industrial
services business.
Guy has international ex-
perience across the service,
retail and manufacturing
sectors and was previ-
ously the COO Designate
and Commercial Services
Director at Homeserve and
Commercial Director at the
Caudwell Group.
“SIG UK Exteriors incor-
porating SIG Roofing is the
market leading merchant
of roofing products and
services,” said Guy. “We are
the market leading specialist
supplier of roofing materials
providing high quality prod-
ucts, supported by unri-
valled technical support and
a commitment to provide
first class service.
“It’s an extremely exciting
time for SIG, with ambitious
plans to further develop our
service and product offer-
ing. Building on our exist-
ing strength, we’ll expedite
further product, service and
targeted growth strategies to
reinforce our market leading
position supporting our
customers in delivering in-
novative products at market
leading prices underpinned
by great service”.
www.sigroofing.co.uk