‘We’ve won stuff we know we wouldn’t have won before’… Talking growth with Kenneth Wood and Neil Fyles of Drees & Sommer UK

By Daniel Gayne2024-10-23T11:30:00

Source: Daniel Gayne

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The apology is already half-formed in Kenneth Wood’s mouth as he bursts out of the meeting room in Drees & Sommer UK’s London office. It’s a tax thing. Something to do with a prospective acquisition in the United States. He’ll be with us in a moment.

Building’s reporter uses the extra time to scribble out a question in his notebook: “Any more acquisition’s planned?”

After all, when we meet in its modest quarters in Holborn, it has only been a few days since the consultant announced its purchase of Northern Irish rival Johnston Houston.

When Wood eventually extricates himself from the lawyers, he explains that the aforementioned American deal is still a fair way off. But there is plenty of business to be done before that.

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