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Last Fiscal Year Sales:$360.3M
- Private
- UK
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If you want to be able to operate your accounts around your schedule, rather than taking time out to visit a branch or use a call centre, then why not take a look at Britannia?s Online Servicing. As a Modern Mutual Building Society, we have developed some of our products to be operated online. We plan to make many more of our accounts serviceable online in the near future, so be sure to keep an eye out for our exciting programme of online developments.
Number of Employees 1,500
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NAICS Code Other Direct Insurance (except Life, Health, and Medical) Carriers: 524128
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Co-op Membership Soars
BNET
- 2009-10-12
By Mark Potter LONDON (Reuters UK) - The Co-operative Group, the country's biggest mutual retailer, attracted 300,000 new members in the first half of its financial year as recession-weary shoppers showed their disillusion with capitalist big business. "We're seeing a real increase in interest in membership," Chief Executive Peter Marks...
Co-op Membership Soars
ReutersUK
- 2009-10-12
By Mark PotterLONDON (Reuters UK) - The Co-operative Group, the country's biggest mutual retailer, attracted 300,000 new members in the first half of its financial year as recession-weary shoppers showed their disillusion with capitalist big business."We're seeing a real increase in interest in membership," Chief Executive Peter Marks told reporters...
Co-op and Britannia to form a super-mutual
- 2009-01-22
BRITANNIA Building Society and the Co-operative Financial Services CFS are combining to form a "super-mutual" lender to challenge Nationwide and the country's battered banks. The merged lender will have 9 million customers and assets of about 70bn. The deal will bring together Britannia's branch network, savings and mortgage...
Your Money: FANS PAY A PENALTY
- 2008-08-17
MANCHESTER United are winners on the pitch - but fans using their savings account are on to a loser. Their 2.15 per cent basic rate is being humbled by Championship side Wolverhampton Wanderers, whose fans enjoy a league-leading 5.25 per cent. As the Premier...
Your Money: I've won with Man United
- 2008-08-17
LIFELONG Manchester United fan Emily Goonan, 28, has a savings account linked to the club to show her support off the terraces. Season ticket holder Emily, a police officer from Middleton, Greater Manchester, opened the account after seeing it advertised in her local Britannia Building Society branch....
Britannia profits hit by rising arrears
- 2008-08-14
A SHARP rise in bad debts and mortgage arrears has led to a near 40 per cent fall in profits at Britannia Building Society. The UK's second largest mutual yesterday blamed the housing crisis for a fall in its first-half profits, which came in at 31m, down from 50.5m in...
'I have been unable to transfer money'
- 2008-08-02
QUESTIONS OF CASH ***I opened a Lloyds TSB cash ISA in April and arranged to transfer 11,903 from my 30-day Tessa-only ISA at the Britannia Building Society. Ten days later, Britannia asked me to call at a branch to verify my signature with photo ID, which I...
Ratings agencies slow to respond, says banking analyst.
- 2008-04-24
Byline: Leah Milner Ratings agencies' speed of response to the market downturn has been "woeful", a banking analyst has claimed A banking analyst has criticised ratings agency's speed of reaction to market movements as "woeful", following the recent downgrades of several...
Britannia Group wins prestigious award for its publication.
- 2008-02-18
M2 PRESSWIRE-18 February 2008-Britannia Building Society: Britannia Group wins prestigious award for its publicationC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:18022008 Britannia Building Society has won a highly coveted Award for its company publication Home Truths' at the prestigious British Association...
Your Money: Pound notes
- 2007-11-18
pounds MORE people insure their possessions than their life, according to insurers Legal & General. In a poll, 66 per cent of people said that they have home contents insurance, compared to just 41 per cent with life insurance. Around one in ten said they were happy to gamble that...
Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Neville Richardson | CEO |
| Gerald Gregory | Managing Director, Capital Investment Group |
| Tim Franklin | Managing Director, Member Business |
| Phil A. Lee | Director, Finance |
| Emma Taynton-Young | Group Pr Manager |
| Jayne Dono | Pr Manager |
| Elizabeth Walmsley | Non Executive Director |
| Graham Leftwich | Head of Group Communications |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Rodney Baker Bates | Chairman |
| Bill Gordon | Board of Directors |
| Bridget Rosewell | Board of Directors |
| Chris Jones | Board of Directors |
| Francis Grugen | Board of Directors |
| Francis Gugen | Board of Directors |
| Helen Keays | Board of Directors |
| Ian Adam | Board of Directors |
| Keith Cameron | Board of Directors |
| Peter Harvey | Board of Directors |
| Stephen Kingsley | Board of Directors |
| Tom Sawyer | Board of Directors |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Britannia Building Society | CEO | Current |
| Britannia Building Society | Board of Directors | Current |
| PricewaterhouseCoopers | partner | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Britannia Building Society | Managing Director, Capital Investment Group | Current |
| Britannia Building Society | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Britannia Building Society | Managing Director, Member Business | Current |
| Britannia Building Society | Board of Directors | Current |
| Barclays PLC | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Britannia Building Society | Director, Finance | Current |
| Britannia Building Society | Board of Directors | Current |
| Bristol West Holdings, Inc. | Former | |
| Ernst & Young | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Britannia Building Society | Group Pr Manager | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Britannia Building Society | Pr Manager | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Britannia Building Society | Non Executive Director | Current |
| Britannia Building Society | Board of Directors | Current |
| White Rose Technology Seedcorn Fund | Board of Directors | Current |
| University of Sheffield | PhD In Biophysical Chemistry | Former |
| INSEAD | MBA | Former |
| INSEAD | Bsc In Chemistry | Former |
| University of Sheffield | Bsc In Chemistry | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Britannia Building Society | Head of Group Communications | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Britannia Building Society | Chairman | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Britannia Building Society | Board of Directors | Current |
| Barclays | Chief Executive | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Britannia Building Society | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Britannia Building Society | Board of Directors | Current |
| Law & Society | Board of Directors | Current |
| Hammonds | Partner | Former |
| Hammonds | solicitor | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Britannia Building Society | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Island Gas Ltd | Founder | Current |
| Island Gas Ltd | Owner | Current |
| Island Gas Ltd | Executive Chairman | Current |
| Britannia Building Society | Board of Directors | Current |
| Commit-Tees.Com | Board of Directors | Current |
| Hess Corporation | chief executive | Former |
| Hess Corporation | finance director | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Britannia Building Society | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Britannia Building Society | Board of Directors | Current |
| Christian Salvesen PLC | finance director | Former |
| Britannia Building Society | Chairman | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Britannia Building Society | Board of Directors | Current |
| Arcadia Group Ltd | Former | |
| Currys Incorporated | Former | |
| Levi Strauss & Co. | Former | |
| Burton Group | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Britannia Building Society | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Britannia Building Society | Board of Directors | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Britannia Building Society | Board of Directors | Current |
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