Towergate to open Leicester office

Towergate is to open a new office in Leicester during the final week of August, Insurance Age can reveal.

The decision will see the staff in Nottingham and Hinkley transfer to a new building.

It follows the move reported by Insurance Age in January that the two offices were being brought under the remit of Andy Bedford.

According to Mike Lawton, chief executive of Towergate's broking division, the decision has not been about reducing staff numbers with all those affected having been offered a role at the new site during a consultation period.

"I am looking to create a new larger site in the