TEn broking services is pleased to announce that it will be opening an office in Manchester in January 2009.

Due to our continued growth over the past few months and in anticipation of this trend continuing through 2009 and beyond, TEn will be opening an office in Manchester from the beginning of January; complete with its own broking team. To this end, we have been joined by Dawn Derbyshire (formerly with Holmans and HML Marketing), as Regional Manager for the Manchester office.

The office will be located in the city centre in Oxford Street and will, by Easter, accommodate a broking team of three or four Broker Technicians. New network members in the area will be supported by this team and up to 10 existing ‘local’ brokers will be redirected to Manchester from one or other of the existing Aylesbury teams, over the course of the summer. In 2010, we would expect the Manchester office to double again.

Comments TEn director James Sharp, “When we wrote our original business plan in 2004, we anticipated the opening of regional offices from 2008 onwards, but mainly because we doubted our ability to find sufficient qualified staff in Aylesbury in the longer term. As it turns out, we did rather better staffing our head office than we expected, but there are other good reasons for regional offices.

Although the TEn concept fully supports remote working ARs, we have found that those based within 50 miles of Aylesbury obviously find it much easier to have more face to face contact with their specific support team and that makes for a measurably enhanced working relationship. Our aim is, therefore, to get closer to more of our network members and this suggests 6 or 7 more regional centres in due course.”