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Welcome to Ep.7 of the Stew & Cocoa podcast! After a short break, we’re back with a new direction centred around the launch of our new award, the Inspirational Business Leader Award. We’ll be interviewing 10 business leaders in the construction industry, hearing their nominations for the beacons in our industry who have shown inspiration and innovation during the pandemic an...

“So the allegation or the suggestion is that, actually, the directors of *censored* were trading insolvent.” A really interesting conversation between Peter Bell and Toni Camisotti on Ep.6 of the Stew & Cocoa podcast. Here they discuss where the Administrator’s duty of care lies and how it looks like a recently fallen serviced office provider may have used deposits for opera...

Exclusive Candidate: Construction Director Introducing our candidate, a Construction Director with 30 years of construction experience in the build and fit out markets across a wide variety of sectors. He has been working as Construction Director for one of the UK’s leading Interiors Contractors, and has recently agreed to part ways with them due to a restructure of the busi...

Operations Director Seeking Opportunity! Introducing our candidate, an experienced Operations Director who is seeking a new opportunity following the liquidation of his current business. Its worth noting that this liquidation was a ‘members voluntary liquidation’, honouring all creditors as well as ensuring clients delivery teams and supply chains were successfully either no...

Leaders who can be agile, creative and composed in their decision-making are the ones who have the greatest opportunity to grow once the economy starts to recover. There was a bit of luck involved in SHB Real Estate being already set-up up for remote working when the crisis hit, allowing them to get back to full-functionality within 2 days of being out of the office. But not...

“I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.” Winston Churchill Strive Together, Share Success hashtag#granitesearch hashtag#stewandcocoa hashtag#veday hashtag#success hashtag#winstonchur...

It's Episode 4 of Stew & Cocoa where Andrew Tuck - Head of Workplace for Nationwide Building Society - provides an insight into how the mutual is functioning in its major economic role whilst ensuring its key workers are kept safe. He also points towards some concerning, but unavoidable consolidation for the institution, whilst reassuring all members and stakeholders with a ...

The team here at Granite Search would like to reassure you during this time of uncertainty, that we are thinking of all of our candidates and clients. ‘Strive Together, Keep Calm & Carry On’ is our mission and our motto to help keep our industry moving, but it is a bit of a mouthful… ‘Stew & Cocoa’ seemed a fitting and more palatable abbreviation with welcome, nourishing, re...

Ep.3 of the Stew & Cocoa podcast with John Howie BSc, CEng, FICE, FEANE of John Howie & Associates is out now! John provides a useful insight into the liabilities of all supply chain members who have elected to place sites on stop. We discuss some of the questionable decisions that have been made, albeit with good initial intentions; the mindset of contractors, subcontractor...

Episode 2 of the Stew & Cocoa Podcast is out now! For this episode I spoke with Joe Giordano, an ex consultant QS, but he does much more interesting work now in project finance and due diligence for major sovereign wealth funds and retail banks among others. He also has almost as many charitable commitments as letters after his name and is thoroughly entertaining over a beer...