Space audits come to the city

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The term 'space audit', coined by David Leon who is senior partner with David Leon and Partners, applies to the concept of space allocation, especially in financial dealing rooms and trading floors in London. Space audits consist of deciding on how much space is needed by each person, and adding this to the space required for service and support areas and circulation, followed by computer analysis. Considerations for the audit are staff details for each department, office hierarchy, and business style. It is important that space allocations be responsive to needs and not status. Leon's accomplishments include designing new headquarters for Roussel Laboratories in Denham, and installing a new mezzanine floor at Johnson's Wax without further building expansion. The problem of creating more space is especially difficult in central London. Large, open-plan rooms are now popular, but Roger Henderson, managing director of Space Planning Services, says that only organizations dealing in overlapping markets need large trading floors.

Management, Planning, Commercial buildings, Office buildings, Internal auditing

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Interpreters to the world of finance

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Business information firms are growing quickly in response to the need for fast and reliable company credit information. Dun & Bradstreet Ltd, ICC Information Group Ltd, and Infocheck are three of the largest information companies, but they each interpret and present their information differently. Dun & Bradstreet conducts interviews, and reviews legal and charity registries for inclusion in their computer system. Dun & Bradstreet clients can then retrieve the information in the form of full written company profiles from Profile Plus or specific information from the DunsData database. Infocheck's Instant Approvals database provides specific credit limits and full company reports for limited companies in the United Kingdom, and ICC publishes over 600 business information publications annually.

Analysis, Services, Credit ratings, Credit bureaus, The Dun & Bradstreet Corp., DNB, Infocheck, ICC Information Group Ltd.

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Worth more than the paper it's printed on

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The companies involved in printing annual reports and other financial documents have to be responsive to quality, schedules and security concerns. The UK corporate printing market is worth approximately 66 million pounds sterling. Time constraints can become particularly tight when there are takeover bids. Printing companies and designers are particularly careful about security so that no information is released before the official date. The tools of the trade are becoming more technologically sophisticated offering better resolution in printing.

Publishing industry, United Kingdom, Corporations, Corporation reports, Company reports, Corporations, British

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