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Business Relocation Case Studies

Our experience includes a variety of UK and international assignments and we work closely with our project partners in a number of overseas locations.

Here is a small selection of our client case studies:

	Biogen Inc
	The US based pharmaceutical company Biogen wanted to set up new and expanded facilities in the UK and needed assistance to help find the right location and to acquire suitable premises. Business Moves Advisory Centre was selected to carry out this assignment, working very closely with Biogen's Paris based European Financial Director, Jim Kirkness...

	British Gas
	The British Gas HQ, which housed several hundred staff, was situated in a tower block alongside the Embankment in London and close to Vauxhall Bridge. The organisation was having trouble recruiting and retaining staff and also concerned about the high cost of employing staff in London, especially compared to other large conurbations in the south east...

	Crown Agents
	Crown Agents residential training centre had for many years been based on the south coast at Worthing, housed in a large and rambling former hotel on the seafront. The lease was due to expire in the very near future and a decision had been made to move to more modern accommodation...

	Daimler Chrysler
	We were contacted by the HR director of DaimlerChrysler Group (including the Mercedes Benz, Jeep and Smart brands) as the DCG's Milton Keynes based warehouse, repair and service facilities needed to expand onto land already occupied by their the HQ office function...

	DHL
	At the UK base for DHL in Heathrow the HR Director was becoming very concerned about the costs of employing, retaining and recruiting good quality staff. He was interested in investigating the 'what if' scenario options of moving the office based staff just a few miles further from the airport to see what potential commercial advantages could be realised, and we were selected to carry out the assignment...

	GlaxoSmithKline
	The pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (formerly Smith Kline Beecham) had a number of quite large offices in Hertfordshire, Essex, Surrey and Sussex as well as in the London area and a decision had been taken to collocate all the facilities at one site in Harlow...

	HM Customs and Excise
	We were called in as an industry expert by John Kinghorn of HMC&E to advise and assist his in-house team with the design and content of their new relocation policy and the preparation and subsequent appraisal of the tenders which would be requested from the relocation companies...

	Highways Agency
	Following the Government's requirement for all Government Departments and Agencies to set up workplace travel plans (known then as Green Travel Plans) we were contacted by The Highways Agency (HA) to advise and help them to create a nationwide HA travel plan...

	IFP Holdings Limited
	IPF Holdings Limited (formerly Provident International) was a young start up company within the Provident Financial Group, formed with the aim of capitalising on the loan market opportunities in the expanding third world. IPFH was collocated within the offices of the parent company at the long established Provident Group HQ in Bradford...

	Pfizer
	We were contacted by Keith Krzwicki, Managing Director of the former Pharmacia (now Pfizer) – the leading Milton Keynes based pharmaceutical company. He requested on off-site meeting to talk about organising a location feasibility study following the company's takeover of Searle Pharmaceuticals and Monsanto Chemicals...

	Plan International
	The worldwide children's charity Plan International had its international HQ at Woking in Surrey and we were called in by Clive Moore, their HR Director, who explained that the lease on the Woking offices would run out in 18 months...

	Provalis
	Provalis (formerly Cortecs Pharmaceuticals) was an international research and manufacturing organisation employing over 200 people and with offices in London, New York and Australia and an international HQ at Isleworth in West London. The lease on the Isleworth premises was due for renewal and the Chief Executive had decided to move the operations to Deeside in North Wales...

	Radley
	Radley was expanding rapidly and running out of warehouse and storage room in its North London, Willesden premises on which the lease was due to run out within two years – leading to a board decision to vacate the premises rather than renew the lease...

	Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital
	The Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital (RD&EH) was anxious to build on its previous successes in developing measures to reduce traffic congestion and improve accessibility at their two main hospital sites in Exeter...

	SurreySussex Health Authority
	As part of the rationalisation of the National Health Service a decision had been taken to consolidate the two Surrey based Health Authorities of East and West Surrey with their counterparts in East and West Sussex. The new overall authority was to become the SurreySussex Health Authority...

	Volkswagen Audi Group
	The Volkswagen Audi group (VW) had offices and facilities in a number of places in the UK, with a headquarters building at Purley in Surrey. The lease on the HQ building was running out and a decision had been taken to build and occupy a brand new HQ in Milton Keynes (MK) which would house the 600+ VW office staff at Purley and all other VW offices throughout the UK...

	Waitrose
	We were appointed by the Waitrose Facilities Director to research, design and produce a workplace travel plan to help overcome the inevitable parking and traffic problems that would arise by relocating...