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Countrywide’s CEO Alison Platt takes new role focussing on sales and lettings
Countrywide CEO Alison Platt (pictured, right) is to focus her efforts on the company’s main property businesses and leave other areas to her new finance chief, it has been revealed today. The announcement follows recent speculation about Sam Tyrer (pictured, below), the company’s Managing Director of Retail and London, whose name was removed from the Countrywide senior team list, and whose LinkedIn profile gives an end date for her employment at the company. Retail focus At the time of joining Countrywide Sam was seen as one of the company’s new non-property, retail-focussed young innovators. Her arrival was part of Alison Platt’s drive to change the business from one dominated by long-serving property seniors into a more modern ‘integrated’ company. Sam was recruited by Alison two years ago to reshape the businesses’ sales and letting operations and was instrumental in launching its hybrid/online sales operation. But Countrywide now says there is to be a new organisational structure with Alison focussing on sales, lettings, financial services and commercial property. All the company’s UK-wide sales and lettings territories will report to Alison, including Hamptons International and its London and SE upmarket brands and City agencies including John D Wood. Countrywide’s new Chief Financial…
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Countrywide management appointments
Countrywide has made a series of Managing Director and Director appointments to its UK retail team and London business unit as part of its ‘Building our Future’ strategy. Countrywide says that ‘Building our Future’ involves “a restructuring of the business, driving greater emphasis on customer focus and organic growth by leveraging our combined sales and lettings offering through one cohesive Retail team. Our restructure is a key element of the plan to double the size of the Group over the coming five years.” To create a One Countrywide Retail team Sam Tyrer, Managing Director for Retail, has appointed three Divisional Managing Directors, bringing together the two businesses. Three further key appointments have been created, Retail Commercial Director, Retail Programme Director and Retail Performance Director, reporting to Sam. 12 Retail Directors have been appointed for the North, Midlands and South, reporting into the three Divisional Managing Directors. Michael Luck and Jonathan Simpson have been appointed as Divisional Managing Directors for the North and Midlands respectively. A Divisional Managing Director for the South will be announced in the near future. Completing the Retail team, Bruce Evans has been appointed Retail Commercial Director; Margaret Longden as Retail Programme Director and Pete Wallace as…
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