BNET Industries
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$3.9B
- Public
- UK
Dow Jones Description
Blimey, its Bingley! Bradford & Bingley plc (London: BB) offers residential mortgages, secured commercial property loans and loans to housing associations. It has changed from mutual ownership to bankhood and has nearly 600 branches throughout the UK. It offers mortgage and insurance brokering, as well as real estate agency, deposit, and counter services. It is also a leading provider of independent financial advice, with about 900 advisors on board. Founded in 1964, this Aś469.3 million company is based in London, UK, and employs about 3,000 people.
Group CEO
Steven J. CrawshawNumber of Employees 2,480
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Trust, Fiduciary, and Custody Activities: 523991
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Nine arrests over 'Pounds 40m mortgage scam'
- 2009-03-11
Britain in brief FRAUD A group of housing developers, solicitors and surveyors are alleged to have defrauded the now-nationalised bank Bradford & Bingley out of 40m in a buy-to-let mortgage scam. Nine people were arrested in dawn raids by more than 50 fraud squad officers from the...
B&B allowed to skip Pounds 850m debt charge
- 2009-02-21
Business in brief Bradford & Bingley, the failed mortgage lender, will be able to skip a coupon payment of about 850m on its subordinated debt, after the Government changed the rules of its rescue package yesterday. It was announced that its executive chairman, Richard Pym, will receive...
Silence isn't golden: a faulty TV and the search for a refund
- 2008-12-14
I bought a 799 LCD TV, made by LG, from Currys in May 2005. In June this year we began having problems with the sound. I contacted Currys on 25 June, only to be told that as I hadn't taken out an extended warranty, there was nothing it could do....
Abbey owner to cut 1,900 British jobs next year
- 2008-12-13
BANCO SANTANDER, the Spanish owner of Alliance & Leicester, Abbey and Bradford & Bingley's saving business, plans to cut 1,900 British jobs next year, adding to the toll the credit crunch has taken on financial workers. The group, which shocked the market with an emergency 7.2bn (6.4bn) rights...
Former B&B chief 'massively sorry'for demise of lender
- 2008-11-19
The boss of Bradford & Bingley issued a public apology yesterday as he told a Commons Treasury Select Committee hearing that nationalisation had been the only option after a run on his bank. The former Bradford & Bingley chairman Rod Kent apologised for his management's role in the lender's demise...
CAPITALISM ISN'T WORKING AND 10 REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL BY TOM
- 2008-10-19
1: Be cheerful on my behalf that my money has been totally unaffected by the crisis. I did not buy shares in HBOS or Bradford & Bingley. I spent it on shoes for the children, travel, fine dining, wine and wild women. Well, one wild woman mostly: the...
Title in my grasp, says Hamilton
- 2008-10-12
Briton snatches pole as Massa feels heat after tyre temperature problems. By David Tremayne at Fuji Having bided his time in the Q1 and Q2 qualifying sessions, with second- and third-fastest times respectively, Lewis Hamilton played second fiddle to Kimi Raikkonen during the first runs in Q3...
Investors suffer as bank stocks shed Pounds 148bn
- 2008-10-05
After a week of turmoil on the stock markets, new research from the financial information site DigitalLook.com has revealed the extent to which shareholders in UK banks have been feeling the pain. The website has calculated that 148bn has been wiped off the value of banking shares in...
It won't be long before the British blame foreigners
- 2008-10-02
POLITICIANS and bankers still don't get it, on this side of theAtlantic no more than on the other. Out they have trooped - Gordon Brown, Alistair Darling, George Osborne and David Cameron - to say that they understand the anger of ordinary people in this crisis. No they...
UK Government may need to guarantee deposits
- 2008-10-01
Outlook Banks, it is sometimes said, are only as safe as the ability of home governments to bail them out. Markets have deemed Ireland's banks so unsafe that the Irish government has had to honour this understanding by guaranteeing the deposits of six of its major players....
Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Steven J. Crawshaw | Group CEO |
| Tim Dawson | Managing Director, Mortgages |
| Alan Law | Director, HR |
| Chris Gillespie | Group Director, Lending |
| Chris Willford | Group Finance Director |
| Ian Campbell | Director, Group Property & Purchasing |
| Robert Dickie | Group Director, Operations |
| Rosemary P. Thorne | Group Director, Finance |
| Vicky Luttig | Manager, Public Relations |
| Alan Shankley | Secretary |
| David Bitner | Head, Product Operations |
| Jessica Bigus | Senior Press Officer |
| Nickie Aiken | Head, Public Relations |
| Sharon Keller | Press Officer, Mortgage Express |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Rod Kent | Chairman |
| George E. Cox | Board of Directors |
| Ian Cheshire | Board of Directors |
| Louise Patten | Board of Directors |
| Louise Patter | Board of Directors |
| Nicholas J. Cosh | Board of Directors |
| Stephen Webster | Board of Directors |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bradford & Bingley Plc | Group CEO | Current |
| Bradford & Bingley Plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Hrit, Inc. | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bradford & Bingley Plc | Managing Director, Mortgages | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bradford & Bingley Plc | Director, HR | Current |
| Bradford & Bingley Plc | Director, HR | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bradford & Bingley Plc | Group Director, Lending | Current |
| Bradford & Bingley Plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Barclays PLC | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bradford & Bingley Plc | Group Finance Director | Current |
| Barclays PLC | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bradford & Bingley Plc | Director, Group Property & Purchasing | Current |
| Bradford & Bingley Plc | Director, Group Property & Purchasing | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bradford & Bingley Plc | Group Director, Operations | Current |
| Bradford & Bingley Plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| National Australia Bank Limited | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bradford & Bingley Plc | Group Director, Finance | Current |
| Bradford & Bingley Plc | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bradford & Bingley Plc | Manager, Public Relations | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bradford & Bingley Plc | Secretary | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bradford & Bingley Plc | Head, Product Operations | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bradford & Bingley Plc | Senior Press Officer | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bradford & Bingley Plc | Head, Public Relations | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bradford & Bingley Plc | Press Officer, Mortgage Express | Current |
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| Bradford & Bingley Plc | Chairman | Current |
| Bradford & Bingley Plc | Board of Directors | Current |
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| Bradford & Bingley Plc | Board of Directors | Current |
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| Bradford & Bingley Plc | Board of Directors | Current |
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| Bradford & Bingley Plc | Board of Directors | Current |
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