Broking success: Alan Smith, Chambers and Newman
The business may have had humble beginnings but director Alan Smith has refocused the broker and used new technology to aid the firm and staff
▶ How did Chambers and Newman come about?
It came about in 1946 when two gentlemen, one was Mr Newman – there was never a Mr Chambers – arrived in the UK from Austria and set up an insurance broker in Regent Street.
Mr Chambers is fictitious, the name was used probably to make the business sound better.
▶ How did growth come about in the early days?
The business developed mainly with people who Mr Newman knew back from Austria and those that came in to the UK from Germany before the war. The
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