{"id":2061935,"date":"2020-06-22T16:42:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T15:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/northwest\/?p=2061935"},"modified":"2020-06-22T16:57:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T15:57:38","slug":"intu-shareholder-causes-damage-at-trafford-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebusinessdesk.com\/northwest\/news\/2061935-intu-shareholder-causes-damage-at-trafford-centre","title":{"rendered":"intu shareholder causes damage at Trafford Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police were called to the Trafford Centre after an angry shareholder caused damage when his demands to speak to management were refused.<\/p>\n<p>The Trafford Centre is owned by property group intu, which has seen its share price collapse in the last year.<\/p>\n<p>Greater Manchester Police said: &#8220;Officers had to attend the Trafford Centre to reports of a male causing issues due [to] him losing money after their share price dropped.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He demanded to speak to management and when told it wasn&#8217;t possible proceeded to damage a computer screen at the customer services desk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Interactive or visual content\" src=\"https:\/\/flo.uri.sh\/visualisation\/2934920\/embed#?secret=W5XaVIiAkx\" data-secret=\"W5XaVIiAkx\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"575\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>intu&#8217;s share price has lost 95% of its value since last July when the retail specialist was valued at more than \u00a31bn.<\/p>\n<p>That was already a crisis for intu, which had been a FTSE 100 company until 2017 and had been the subject of an aborted takeover bid from Hammerson in 2018 which valued intu at \u00a33.4bn.<\/p>\n<p>Last September intu dropped out of the FTSE 250 as its share price continued to plummet.<\/p>\n<p>intu owns 20 shopping centres in the UK and Spain, including Merry Hill in the West Midlands, Lakeside in Essex, and Metrocentre in Gateshead.<\/p>\n<p>intu has owned the Trafford Centre since 2011, when it bought it from the Peel Group.<\/p>\n<p>Peel is now intu&#8217;s largest shareholder, with 27%, while John Whittaker still controls 75% of Peel. 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