– UK, London – British Land Company PLC (LON: BLND) today announced the appointment of Amanda James to its Board as a Non-Executive Director, effective from 1st July 2024.
“We are delighted that Amanda is joining the British Land Board. Amanda brings not only deep expertise in finance, but also strong consumer, retail and multi-channel experience. Her depth of retail expertise will provide valuable insight into the needs of our customers as we continue to execute our value add strategy.” said Board Chair, Tim Score.
Amanda James will also join the Audit Committee.
About Amanda James
Amanda James is CFO of NEXT Plc, one of the UK’s largest FTSE 100 fashion, footwear, and home retailers. She has an extensive background in finance, having joined the NEXT finance team over 28 years ago. Since then, she has held various roles within the finance department and was appointed CFO and joined the NEXT Board in 2015. Amanda has already announced her intention to step down from the NEXT Board with effect from 26th July and retire from NEXT at the end of September 2024.
About British Land
Our portfolio of high-quality UK commercial property is focused on London Campuses and Retail & London Urban Logistics assets throughout the UK. We own or manage a portfolio valued at £12.7bn (British Land share: £8.7bn) as of 30 September 2023 making us one of Europe’s largest listed real estate investment companies.
We create Places People Prefer, delivering the best, most sustainable places for our customers and communities. Our strategy is to leverage our best-in-class platform and proven expertise in development, repositioning, and active management, investing behind two key themes: Campuses and Retail & London Urban Logistics.
Our three campuses at Broadgate, Paddington Central, and Regent’s, Place are dynamic neighborhood neighborhoods with growth customers and sectors, and offer some of the best connected, highest quality, and most sus, tenable space in London. We are delivering our fourth Campus at Canada Water, where we have planning consent to deliver 5m sq ft of residential, commercial, retail, and community, space over 53 acres. Our Campuses account for 62% of our portfolio.
Retail & London Urban Logistics accounts for 38% of the portfolio and is focused on retail parks which are aligned to the growth of convenience, online and last mile, and fulfillment. We are complementing this with urban logistics primarily in London, focused on development development-leds.
Sustainability is embedded throughout our business. Our approach is focused on three key pillars where British Land can create the most benefit: Greener Spaces, making our whole portfolio net zero carbon by 2030, Thriving Places, partnering to grow social value and well being in well-being where we operate and Responsible Choices, advocating responsible business practices across British Land and throughout our supply chain, and maintaining robust governance structures.
SOURCE: https://www.britishland.com/
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