Appointments: Lambert Smith Hampton; Eddisons; and more
LAMBERT Smith Hampton (LSH) has appointed of Abid Jaffry as its new Manchester office head.
Mr Jaffry joined LSH as a director in its capital markets division in September 2011, and will be working closely with David Smith and the North regional board to grow the firm’s presence in the region.
He said: “I am delighted to have been given the opportunity to head up the Manchester team and to help Lambert Smith Hampton grow a region that is strategically important to the business.”
Regional director David Smith added: “With over 10 years investment and capital markets experience Abid is ideally placed to lead our team in the North West.”
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JOHN Brown has been appointed as general manager of the new £5.5m Holiday Inn Express hotel due to open in Hoylake next month.
The revitalised former Kings Gap Court Hotel also features a Frankie’s Bar & Grill, a collaboration between celebrity chef Marco Pierre White and champion jockey Frankie Dettori.
Brown, 48, has worked at venues across the north west including Ramada Warrington and Devonshire House Hotel in Liverpool. He joins after three years as cluster sales manager with the hotel’s operator, Liverpool-based Sanguine Hospitality.
Standish-based Denizen Contracts is currently completing work on the new 56-bedroom hotel and the 155-seat Frankie’s Bar & Grill.
A recruitment day for 20 positions at the Frankie’s restaurant will also be held at the hotel on March 19.
Brown said: “Hoylake is a wonderful village and it’s great to be here leading such a fresh and exciting venue. A lot of detailed work has gone into modernising the building without losing any of its character and the result is an impressive, contemporary hotel.”
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EDDISONS has appointed John Hayward as its new national head of rating.
Mr Hayward, formerly of Trafford-based business rates firm CVS and King Sturge, will head a department of five in Manchester and oversee specialist teams in Leeds, London and Birmingham.
He said that the firm would add its support to industry proposals to limit the above-inflation increase on business rates due to come into force on April 1.
The increase is based on the inflation figure for September 2011, which at 5.6% was the highest rate in years.
“There is a real cause for concern among small and medium sized businesses on how they will afford such an increase when they are fighting to stay afloat in the current economic climate.
“We are making more rating appeal applications under ‘hardship grounds’ to obtain an earlier discussion period with the Valuation Office Agency, which will ultimately lead to our clients receiving any cash rebate due as soon as possible, to help with their cashflow.”
