Giles Insurance Brokers
Ex-Barbon MD joins Giles
Giles Insurance Brokers has appointed Nick Sharp as executive director for the group.
Giles expands in Scotland with Falkirk appointments
Giles Insurance Brokers has appointed Ian Smith as branch director of its Falkirk office.
Giles boosts management team with appointment
Giles Insurance Group has swooped to appoint Paula Williams as regional managing director for the North of England as it looks to strengthen its management team.
Giles appoints new healthcare leader
Giles Insurance Group has appointed Paul Lewis as director of its healthcare team.
Giles' Chester office restructured
Giles Insurance Brokers has confirmed the restructure of its Chester office with micro SME business moved to another office.
Giles looks to Brightside for new COO
Giles Insurance Group has appointed Simon Pearce as chief operating officer.
Bernard Mageean leaves Broker Network for Giles
Giles Insurance Group has appointed Bernard Mageean as managing director, underwriting and wholesale.
Giles not headed for IPO chief exec insists
Brendan McManus, chief executive of Giles Insurance Brokers, has hit back at claims the company’s backers are looking for an exit as he moved to dampen rumours of an imminent market flotation.
Giles losses for 2011 come in at £37m
Giles group has reported a further loss of £37.4m for the year to 31 August 2011 compared to £37.1m in 2010.
Giles lures senior Towergate director to head up Scottish operation
Towergate’s acquisitions and projects director has left the company to become Giles’ regional managing director for Scotland and Northern Ireland.
RSA chief welcomes tough conversations with consolidators
RSA’s UK and Western European CEO Adrian Brown has revealed that having former colleague Brendan McManus and counterpart Mark Hodges running consolidators such as Giles and Towergate respectively was a help, rather than hindrance.
Giles sales director leaves for Tyser
Tysers has appointed John McLaren-Stewart as UK sales and marketing director from broking giant Giles where he was the UK sales director.
Lorega grows regional broker development team
Lorega has appointed two former Towergate employees to its regional broker business development team.
The new breed of consolidator
With management changes at some of the country’s largest brokers, the consolidator model is evolving
Giles up against Acromas in bid for Groupama's UK broking arm
Giles and Acromas have both filed bids to buy part of the UK arm of Groupama, according to the Independent.
In search of confidence
If the past week has shown anything it is the need for confidence.
Sarah Lyons "on leave" from Giles
Sarah Lyons, group managing director of Giles Insurance Brokers, has left the company and is in the process of addressing "certain contractual issues”.
UK insurance will have to go east to maintain dominance
The UK insurance industry will have to go east in the future if it wishes to retain its global pre-eminence.
CBG division exits Giles in MBO
Giles has sold the financial services arm of recent acquisition CBG to the management team.
Giles' finance director steps down
Mark Chambers, finance director at Giles Insurance Brokers, resigned on 1 January according to new documents submitted to Companies House.
Video: What the Papers Say, latest edition
This month, Insurance Age editor Martin Friel is joined by Jon Sellors, head of thought leadership at RSA and Insurance Age features editor, Emmanuel Kenning.
The Giles Group bags McManus
Former Willis CEO, Brendan McManus, has been appointed CEO of the Giles Group.
Giles settles dispute with former employees
Giles Insurance Brokers has settled out of court to end a restrictive covenant dispute with four former employees.
Keelan Westall boosts underwriting agency
Keelan Westall has appointed Simona Wilson to its in-house underwriting agency as team leader and promoted Caroline Dixon to underwriting manager as it looks to strengthen the division.