Leaders completes major acquisition

Leaders has completed the purchase of Derby-based letting agent, IMS Lettings Limited, in its largest acquisition deal to date. The decision to buy IMS Lettings Limited follows Leaders’ recent purchase of Nottingham property sales and lettings firm PWR in April and significantly extends Leaders’ branch network in the East Midlands. IMS, which has been established for over 10 years, has offices in Derby, Duffield, Belper, Borrowash and Long Eaton. All the members of staff at IMS have joined Leaders under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, otherwise known as TUPE, whilst the firm’s vendor, Chris Griffin, has exited the company to focus on other business interests. Commenting on the sale of IMS, Griffin (right of the main pic) said, “I am confident that the business I have built over the last 10 years will have a secure and successful future as part of Leaders. In choosing a company to sell to it was crucial to me that my clients and staff would be well looked after and that the business would continue to be run in line with the high standards I have set and maintained over the last decade. “I know that with Leaders there will…

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