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A Bovis Homes development near Southampton. Bovis Homes’ origins lay in the early post-war housing operations of Bovis Holdings (see also Bovis Construction).Bovis had been acquiring housing land in the early 1950s but the level of housebuilding was modest until 1967 when it acquired Frank Sanderson’s Malcolm Sanderson Developments and the much larger RT Warren. [3]
Sarah Lucinda Beeny was born in 1972 in Reading, Berkshire, to Richard, an architect for Bovis Homes [1] [5] and Ann. Beeny has an elder brother. The family lived in two converted brick cottages in a nine-acre plot on the edge of the Duke of Wellington's estate at Stratfield Saye in Hampshire, [6] in a style that Beeny describes as "a bit like The Good Life."
Four months into his retirement Fitzgerald was offered the position of CEO of Bovis Homes. The company was in financial trouble owing to poor customer relations – having moved people into new houses which were not finished or had defects. [4] His appointment headed off acquisition bids by fellow top-10 UK housebuilders Galliford Try and Redrow.
In 1997, Bovis Homes was spun off and floated on the London Stock Exchange. [13] [14] Around this time, Bovis was often regarded as the largest construction company in Britain, although this position was hotly contested by competing firms. [15] [16] One such competitor was Mace, which was founded and initially led by a former Bovis employee ...
Bovis may refer to: Bovis Homes Group, a national British housebuilding company; Bovis Construction, an construction company, acquired by Lendlease in 1999;
Sir Frank William Lampl (6 April 1926 [1] – 23 March 2011) [2] [3] was a Czech-born British businessman. He led the British building firm Bovis Construction during a 15-year period as Chairman and CEO and then became Life President of Bovis Lend Lease, the leading global construction management company.
During September 2019, discussions with Bovis Homes about a possible sale were reopened; [56] that same month, a preliminary deal, valued at £1.075bn, was reportedly agreed. [57] Sale of the housing business would permit the recapitalisation of Galliford Try's construction business, which, following restructuring, would employ some 3,400 staff ...
Kevork S. Hovnanian (1923 – September 24, 2009) was an Armenian-American businessman and home builder, who founded Hovnanian Enterprises in 1959. He remained the president and chief executive officer of Hovnanian Enterprises until his retirement in 1997. [1]