Jun 22, 2005
Slough Estates plc, a leading provider of flexible business space, is pleased to announce that it has further strengthened its European Team with two key appointments in Paris.
Laurent Horbette has joined as General Manager, France in order to head up Slough's French operations. Laurent has joined from Bail Investissement where he was Head of Asset Management and prior to that he worked for nine years within the Bouygues Group. Laurent will be joined by Christophe Richaud who has been appointed as Technical Director. Christophe was previously a Senior Project Manager at Hammerson in Paris.
Walter Hens, Slough Estates' European Managing Director, commented: "We are delighted to have secured two such high quality professionals. We made a strategic decision at the end of last year to restructure our French operations and increase our exposure to the French markets and these appointments mark a significant step in that process".
Slough Estates is a leading provider of flexible business space in business parks in Western Europe and North America, with over 1500 customers occupying 2,996,967 square metres of business space, with a total value of £3.9 billion. Slough Estates' properties are in suburban locations in close proximity to the main business centres, where there is long term demand for business accommodation to serve these key economic regions. The company's main activities are currently based around London, Brussels, Paris, Düsseldorf, San Francisco and San Diego and the company continues to develop new business parks with the long term objective of building shareholder value and enhancing its reputation for quality buildings offering excellent value to customers.
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