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Watch: Insider's Business Briefing - 26th September
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25/09/2024
Simon and Chantelle discuss a landmark Manchester building being snapped up, investment at Jaguar Land Rover's Merseyside site and a historic pub saved from closure.
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Siemens, Jaguar, Land Rover and the Britain's Protection. That's what's coming
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up in today's Daily Business Briefing.
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Hi, I'm Simon Keegan. And I'm Chantelle Dates. So Chantelle, it's your debut on the
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Daily Business Briefing, isn't it? It is, yeah. You're our new-ish property editor.
00:23
Yeah. Have you got a property story for us today then? I do have a property story.
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So commuters into Manchester will probably know this building very well.
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It's the Siemens building on Princess Parkway. That has been acquired
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by the Northern Group. It's the group's third acquisition actually in as
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many months. They've already bought the DKNY building on King Street and
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19 Spring Gardens just off Market Street. So yeah, it's been a great few months for
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them. And now they're going to explore what they will do with the building and
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it's a seven-acre site. There's quite a lot of land there for them to look into
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what they'll do with that. Yeah, they were quite recent acquisitions, weren't they?
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I remember talking about those on this Business Briefing in the last few weeks,
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I think. Yeah, it's only been since the summer. Yeah, so we're talking of
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iconic buildings. The Britain's Protection pub, which has got to be one
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of Manchester's most iconic pubs, I would say. I mean that pub dates back to kind
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of the Napoleonic era. They used to use that building to recruit
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soldiers for the for the wars against Napoleon and when there was the Peter
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Loo Massacre, which obviously is what's now St. Peter's Square, that's where
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the injured were taken to. So it's this really historic building and they've
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been locked in dispute, the pub has, with Heineken over various kind of leases and
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what beers they're allowed to sell and stuff like that. But that's come to a
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resolution now and it was Pannoni's real estate team who were looking
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after the case and so that sounds like a great resolution. So I think we can
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drink to that, can't we? I think we can. And so what else has caught your eye today?
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So this is news today that Jaguar Land Rover have invested 500 million into
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their Hailwood factory in Merseyside. This is a 61 year old factory so it's
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quite an old building and they've already upgraded and extended the
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facility in preparation for electric vehicle production and 250 million pounds
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has already gone into new production lines, machinery, people and digital
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technology and another 250 million will be injected over the coming years there.
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So it's quite an exciting development over in Merseyside. It is, well I visited
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that factory a couple of years ago and I guess that would have been before any of
02:53
this, before they were even thinking about electric vehicles probably. Yeah.
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But it's so interesting because you saw the big cubes of Tatar steel coming in
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on one side and then you'd see the finished Land Rovers coming out of the
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other side, you know. But it was surprising to me just how quiet it
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was, the production line. It was, you'd imagine a car production line to be
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really noisy, wouldn't you? Yeah. It's quite quiet and a lot of it was was done more by
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hand than you would expect. Okay. Literally pieces of A4 paper sellotaped to, you
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know, with with different spec on there and so on. Right, okay. And some customers,
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I guess if they were sort of like wealthy customers who were having a
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really special order of one of these vehicles, could even come in and kind of
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customise it themselves. They could sort of, you know, add little touches. So really, it
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was really nice. I love a factory visit when we're doing the magazine. Yeah.
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Because, you know, it gives me a chance to really kind of get to know the company.
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Yeah. So talking of which, that's Noseley area. We've got a special feature about
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Noseley in the next issue. So our colleague Remy is writing that and it's
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going to be a regional review. We're going to be looking at all of the exciting
04:11
goings on in that area, meet some of the companies. I imagine JLL is going to be
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among them. Yeah. We've also got a piece going in the next issue on challenges to
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the big four. So in the last couple of issues ago, we looked at the big four
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accountancy firms KPMG, EY, Deloitte, PwC and kind of their place in the market.
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Now we're looking at the challenges, the people going up against them. So I
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interviewed a couple of days ago, for example, Shrew Morris, who's the new
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deputy CEO at Dow Schofield Watts. And Shrew, some of our readers, viewers may
04:52
know her from her days at Knapton Solicitors in Preston, but she's now at
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DSW. She was telling me about plans to expand into other professional services.
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So it's things like that, interesting things that's going on. I will just say
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as well, the October issue of Northwest Business Insider has landed today. We've
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got some great stuff in that. If you haven't seen a copy of that, you can get
05:16
in touch. We've got the 42 under 42 in there, really anticipated. We've also got
05:22
the dealmakers preview so you can see what's coming up there. Another sold out
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event. We've got our legal review. We've got our Cheshire ones to watch. Really
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well worth picking up this issue. Now, Chantal, you're just finally, you're off
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to London. I'm off to London on Monday with a team of property experts from
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Greater Manchester. So the likes of JLL, Edwards and CBRE are joining us. We're
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going to be sharing insights on the region's property market. So we're
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covering industrial workspaces and residential. We'll also be joined by
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Martin Evans from Landsat Q&I. He'll be talking about the 1.5 billion investment
06:01
into Mayfield. So it's going to be a really exciting event. And I'm really
06:06
looking forward to sharing what the fantastic region has to offer. Well, look forward to
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reading your findings as well. And that's going to be in the November issue as
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well. So again, guys, if you don't subscribe, you can get in touch. I might
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even send you a discount code. Feeling generous. All of the stories that we've
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talked about, you'll find on InsiderMedia.com. You can also follow me
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and Chantal and any of the team over on LinkedIn and Twitter as well. I think
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that's all we've got time for, Chantal. Yeah, thank you, Simon. See you next time.
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