01/10/24
New London Office
By Sam Taylor (HR Manager)
ECOM Agrotrade Ltd has ‘lived’ at 55 Old Broad Street for 10 years. With the destruction and redevelopment of the whole building, we were tasked with finding a new home.
For any city office, location is key. So, we were tasked with finding and shortlisting suitable buildings for our London colleagues to move to that would suit us now and in the future.
In June 2024, we finalised our agreement to move to 60 New Broad Street. For those of you who have visited us in London, we are actually only about 30 seconds away from our old building!
After a period of refurbishment, we are pleased to have created an ECOM identity of a welcoming working environment with meeting rooms and a unique Coffee Café. The Café was designed with direction from Alain, Nicolas, and Teddy and with input from Tabea Gallois and Sofia Scharrer to ensure we represented our coffee specialism and ECOM designs.
We had a period of 3 working days to move everyone in late August, with the new office officially opening on the 27th of August 2024.
As a member of staff and the Project Manager, we are very pleased with our new home and look forward to welcoming any ECOM colleagues and visitors over the years to come.
A big thank you to everyone who was involved from the main team working with me; Nick Bernard and Lisa Fernandes and those who helped make it happen from the start in terms of input (Nicolas de Wasseige, Imogen Chopra, and our London HR Team) who helped make this move happen on time and with ease for staff members.
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