British Taking Over U.S. Skyscraper

[Jimbeaux]

Some of your investment guys are renting up a chunk of the Sears Tower and paid for naming rights:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,532960,00.html...

[rocksteadyeddie]

"They" move in Monday - the explosives rigging team that is!

[fathomfive]

rocksteadyeddie said:

"They" move in Monday - the explosives rigging team that is!

Shhhh! You'll give the game away.

[elster]

"It would be like changing the name of the Brooklyn Bridge"

No, as that is geographical reference.

It would be like changing the name of any other office block/hotel, which is fairly common.

[s3fella]

Edited by s3fella on Thursday 16th July 09:59

[Jimbeaux]

I forgot about the conspiracy angle! Rigging charges, huh? Is Willis run by any militant types?

[mouseymousey]

Jimbeaux said:

Some of your investment guys are renting up a chunk of the Sears Tower and paid for naming rights:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,532960,00.html...

Actually they didn't pay a single cent extra for naming rights.

eta: And they're insurance people, not investment.

Edited by mouseymousey on Thursday 16th July 12:38

[Tony*T3]

They're still sore since the time they opened those boxes we delivered with the label "London Bridge" on it......

[Rob_T]

they'll never change the name of the natwest tower. it's even built in the shape of the natwest logo, which will never change either

[Jimbeaux]

mouseymousey said:

Jimbeaux said:

Some of your investment guys are renting up a chunk of the Sears Tower and paid for naming rights:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,532960,00.html...

Actually they didn't pay a single cent extra for naming rights.

eta: And they're insurance people, not investment.

Edited by mouseymousey on Thursday 16th July 12:38

I think if you check this list of services from their web site, you will see that they are far more than insurance, IMO.

http://www.willis.com/Client_Solutions/

[mouseymousey]

Jimbeaux said:

mouseymousey said:

Jimbeaux said:

Some of your investment guys are renting up a chunk of the Sears Tower and paid for naming rights:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,532960,00.html...

Actually they didn't pay a single cent extra for naming rights.

eta: And they're insurance people, not investment.

Edited by mouseymousey on Thursday 16th July 12:38

I think if you check this list of services from their web site, you will see that they are far more than insurance, IMO.

http://www.willis.com/Client_Solutions/

And I think that if you do more than actually just look at the headings you'll find that they are all related to insurance, or risk management, in some way. I can assure you that they are closer to insurance than 'investment guys'.

[Jimbeaux]

mouseymousey said:

Jimbeaux said:

mouseymousey said:

Jimbeaux said:

Some of your investment guys are renting up a chunk of the Sears Tower and paid for naming rights:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,532960,00.html...

Actually they didn't pay a single cent extra for naming rights.

eta: And they're insurance people, not investment.

Edited by mouseymousey on Thursday 16th July 12:38

I think if you check this list of services from their web site, you will see that they are far more than insurance, IMO.

http://www.willis.com/Client_Solutions/

And I think that if you do more than actually just look at the headings you'll find that they are all related to insurance, or risk management, in some way. I can assure you that they are closer to insurance than 'investment guys'.

OK then. That really changes my whole day and has everything to do with the price of potatoes in Idaho.

[mouseymousey]

Sorry - I just found it amusing that your one line original post actually had 2 mistakes in it, although to be fair the mistakes were copied from Fox News.

[Jimbeaux]

mouseymousey said:

Sorry - I just found it amusing that your one line original post actually had 2 mistakes in it, although to be fair the mistakes were copied from Fox News.

Well, actually that would be my mistake alone. Fox called them "Financial Services". I assumed investment instead of insurance. The naming rights was written into the leasing price.

[Police State]

Rob_T said:

they'll never change the name of the natwest tower. it's even built in the shape of the natwest logo, which will never change either

It had a name change a good few years ago...; and according to the architect it was never his intention to immortalise the nat west logo. He was a clever guy, and there were sound architectual reeasons for it being that shape.

[moleamol]

Rob_T said:

they'll never change the name of the natwest tower. it's even built in the shape of the natwest logo, which will never change either

You mean Tower 42?

[s2art]

Jimbeaux said:

mouseymousey said:

Jimbeaux said:

mouseymousey said:

Jimbeaux said:

Some of your investment guys are renting up a chunk of the Sears Tower and paid for naming rights:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,532960,00.html...

Actually they didn't pay a single cent extra for naming rights.

eta: And they're insurance people, not investment.

Edited by mouseymousey on Thursday 16th July 12:38

I think if you check this list of services from their web site, you will see that they are far more than insurance, IMO.

http://www.willis.com/Client_Solutions/

And I think that if you do more than actually just look at the headings you'll find that they are all related to insurance, or risk management, in some way. I can assure you that they are closer to insurance than 'investment guys'.

OK then. That really changes my whole and has everything to do with the price of potatoes in Idaho.

Just part of a long term strategy Jim. Prior to WW2 Britain owned huge chunks of the USA. Still working on recovering from that and the restoration of the monarchy.

[Jimbeaux]

s2art said:

Jimbeaux said:

mouseymousey said:

Jimbeaux said:

mouseymousey said:

Jimbeaux said:

Some of your investment guys are renting up a chunk of the Sears Tower and paid for naming rights:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,532960,00.html...

Actually they didn't pay a single cent extra for naming rights.

eta: And they're insurance people, not investment.

Edited by mouseymousey on Thursday 16th July 12:38

I think if you check this list of services from their web site, you will see that they are far more than insurance, IMO.

http://www.willis.com/Client_Solutions/

And I think that if you do more than actually just look at the headings you'll find that they are all related to insurance, or risk management, in some way. I can assure you that they are closer to insurance than 'investment guys'.

OK then. That really changes my whole and has everything to do with the price of potatoes in Idaho.

Just part of a long term strategy Jim. Prior to WW2 Britain owned huge chunks of the USA. Still working on recovering from that and the restoration of the monarchy.

You have to go somewhere; the Muslims won't have you in Britainistan.

[elster]

s2art said:

Just part of a long term strategy Jim. Prior to WW2 Britain owned huge chunks of the USA. Still working on recovering from that and the restoration of the monarchy.

Prior to The Frogs kicking us out in 1783 we owned the country!

Now the USA are one of the French colonies.

[mouseymousey]

My understanding of the naming rights was that Willis wanted to move into the building and a price was agreed, they then said oh and we want naming rights for that as well. In other words, they didn't actually pay for naming rights as such.

Willis are very pleased with the deal and, if true, it was a pretty good piece of business. Plenty of others have tried and failed to rename the building.

Their new building in London isn't too shabby either.