England’s Test stars bat for Yorkshire business

ENGLAND’S Test cricket stars have been batting for Yorkshire business during the current Headingley Test Match.

Top test names including Kevin Pietersen, Andrew Flintoff and James Anderson took time out from preparing to take on the South Africans to support a number of business events in Leeds.

Most of the Test team were at Savile’s Hall at the Royal Armouries to support England and Yorkshire bowler Matthew Hoggard’s benefit dinner which attracted an audience of around 700 business people.

The event was sponsored by Bank of Ireland and Lee Hayes and his team from the bank welcomed and hosted the team at the dinner.

Meanwhile star player Kevin Pietersen went into bat for Henderson Insurance Brokers to open the new offices of its Henderson Corporate operation.

Joe Henderson, founder and chief executive of the Leeds-based business, said: “Kevin Pietersen is a fantastic cricketer and we are supporting him during the Headingley test match. We are delighted to have him at the launch of our new Corporate division and the official opening of our new office in Leeds.”

“Kevin has many of the values we hold close at Hendersons. He is a team player who works hard on making the most of his talent in order to get the best results, like his 152 at Lords.”

Henderson Corporate’s new office is at No 1 Whitehall Riverside and is headed up by directors Nigel Harrison, Ryhdian Thomas and Daniel Binks.

Mr Henderson said: “Nigel and his team have a breadth of national broker experience and they know their clients will be expecting them to deliver value for money without compromising on providing a high level of service.”

Mr Harrison added: “Henderson Corporate will offer specialist advice to a wide range of corporate organisations from public limited companies, public bodies and owner-managed businesses.

“No client is too large or small as Henderson prides itself on developing close relationships with each individual company in order to establish their specific requirements. The team is then able to tailor bespoke solutions to protect the balance sheet of the client.”

As well as offering a full range of corporate products for medium-to-large sized enterprises, Henderson Corporate also has an international dimension for global clients.

Leeds-based Henderson has seen profits grow by 57% to £3.4m and was recently named as one of the country’s top 10 brokers by a leading insurance publication.