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Published: 10 September, 2007
HAMMOND PHILLIPS has made two new appointments in its asset management team. SARAH MILNE-DAY joins from Scurr & Partners as property manager. And MANNY ELMAN, formally financial controller at Cluttons, has joined in the newly-created position of head of management accounts.
IAN BUTT has been named as the new development project director for the £1bn regeneration of BASILDON town centre. He was previously Basildon Council's manager of strategic development coordination.
GROSVENOR FUND MANAGEMENT is strengthening its specialist shopping centre team with the appointment of SHARON BLOODWORTH as a senior asset manager. She will be responsible for its Grosvenor Festival Place Fund and joins from Capital Shopping Centres. LIZ HENDERSON and CHARLES OWEN have also been recruited as asset managers; both were previously with Donaldsons.
WARNER ESTATE HOLDINGS has appointed JENNIFER MORRIS to the newly-created role of marketing manager for its retail portfolio. She previously worked for Westfield at Merry Hill in Dudley. She will be based in Bolton, although her remit is national.
Retail marketing specialist TOOLBOX MARKETING has recruited two new members of staff. KIM FIRMAN joins as an account manager and DAVID FULLER has joined as a digital marketing strategist.
INTEGRAL, the UK's largest independent property maintenance company, has appointed LEE JONES as director of corporate social responsibility. He has more than 20 years of building services and engineering experience, having served in the Royal Navy and worked for Vodafone, Independent Building Solutions and OCS Engineering.
JONES LANG LASALLE has strengthened its shopping centre management team in Manchester with the appointment of MARGARET MAGUIRE as an associate director. She previously worked for Cheetham & Mortimer and has more than 22 years' property management experience.
CHURSTON HEARD has recruited DUNCAN READER as a graduate surveyor in its shopping centre and development team.
ANGUS POTTERTON has been elected managing director of SAVILLS HAMILTON OSBORNE KING following the successful completion of a four-year term by PAUL MCNEIVE, who will assume the role of director in the office division. AIDAN O'HOGAN has been simultaneously re-elected as executive chairman.
CAPITAL SHOPPING CENTRES has appointed SOPHIE HALLETT to the post of marketing manager at Chapelfield in Norwich. She replaces Sheridan Smith who is currently on secondment to Lakeside shopping centre in Thurrock. She joins from The Mall in Norwich where she had been in charge of marketing and promotions for three years.
Marketing agency TOMLIN BEAN has appointed LUCY SHAW as account manager in its client services team. She joins from J Walter Thompson where she worked for three years on the Diageo and Shell accounts.
JOANNE DIAMOND has joined WORKMAN RETAIL as administrative assistant at the Market Centre in Crewe. Previously, she worked as a secretary at Amplivox Ultratone.
MATTHEWS & GOODMAN has appointed STEVE BUCKLEY to head its Manchester planning team. His brief is to develop the retail planning business.
CHURSTON HEARD has announced changes to its management structure, with TREVOR PHILLIPS standing down as chairman to work with new and existing clients and focus on new business generation as a full-time consultant. Chief executive CHRIS POWELL has taken over the strategic management of the firm.
RETAIL BIRMINGHAM has appointed NIGEL GODFREY as the new business manager to lead the Business Improvement District (BID), representing up to 800 retailers in the city centre. He is experienced in the operation of BIDs, having led Erdington to become the first local centre in the UK to become a BID earlier this year.
Former Delancey director Richard Wise has been appointed as chief executive of Centros Miller. Richard's appointment will help to support the ongoing growth of the company. Richard draws on his 20 years of experience working on major development projects. Centros Miller managing director John Laker will take on the role of chairman and will continue to have an active involvement in overseeing projects.
NB REAL ESTATE has appointed CLAIRE VAN TONDER as the first centre manager of thehub:mk. She was previously centre manager at mixed-use leisure facility Sol Central in Northampton and prior to that, facilities manager at Philips Semiconductors. Thehub:mk is a new landmark development from developer Frontier Estates of offices, hotels, retail, cafés, bars, restaurants and apartments in the heart of Milton Keynes.
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=== Manager of the month ===
Kyla Ankers, the new manager at Eccles shopping centre, right in the heart of Eccles town centre in Greater Manchester, is determined to give it an image makeover.
She takes control after a successful career in the civil service where she worked closely with people from all walks of life. Ankers believes the combination of this experience with the support of Workman Retail, the centre's managing agent, is ideal to drive forward improvements at Eccles shopping centre.
"The centre is right at the heart of Eccles," she said.
"It's opposite the main bus and tram terminal and the market hall is part of the centre. It has been a key feature of the town for more than 30 years and is now due for an image makeover. I am liaising closely with the local council on various initiatives. I want the centre to become part of a fully coordinated marketing programme for the area.
"The arrival of Wilkinson's new store in March has given a massive boost to the whole centre," added Ankers. "It has dramatically increased shopper footfall. One of the results is an increase in interest from other, potentially new, retailers anxious to benefit from the uplift in trade."
Ankers is working with shop owners to create a year-round calendar of different activities designed to attract visitors to Eccles.
She concluded: "I am very upbeat. We have a really great team of tenants and a very loyal customer base.
"My task is linking these two positive factors together to generate a real buzz here."
