Saturday, July 24, 2010

UKs oldest construction multitude agrees to merger

Patrick Hosking, Financial Editor & , : {}

Britain"s oldest construction society, the Chesham, threw in the towel currently and concluded to be taken over by the most incomparable Skipton Building Society.

The Chesham was founded in 1845 and boasts 20,000 members and 3 branches in the Buckinghamshire commuter towns of Chesham, Aylesbury and Little Chalfont.

Skipton has betrothed to keep the branches open for at slightest twelve months and there will be no mandatory redundancies between bend staff.

However, a little head bureau staff will lose their jobs. The Chesham name will sojourn on passbooks.

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The Chesham pronounced that it had been really bad squeezed by mercantile and seductiveness rate conditions and was loss-making at the handling turn last year.

Chesham members will embrace no bonus, but will have entrance to Skipton"s most incomparable network of 89 branches.

The understanding will need capitulation from both Chesham members and the Financial Services Authority.

Skipton, that finished the partnership with the Scarborough Building Society usually a year ago, is the fourth-largest construction multitude with 830,000 members.

Today it additionally reported a liberation in pre-tax distinction from �22.5 million to �63.5 million.

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