COUTTS & CO HOSTS FIRST EVENT FOR NOTTINGHAMSHIRE BUSINESS WOMEN

Coutts & Co hosts first events for Nottinghamshire businesswomen

Coutts & Co Chief Executive, Sarah Deaves yesterday hosted the bank’s first event for businesswomen in Nottinghamshire, as part of a continued commitment to expand the business in this market.

The region’s top female entrepreneurs gathered at the Bank’s new offices in the Arc in Nottingham to hear Sarah speak about her experiences as the first female Chief Executive of one of the UK’s oldest private banks, and share their own experiences of building up their own businesses.

Later, Merryn Corcoran, founder of online shoe retailer shoe-queen.com, hosted an exclusive ‘Shoe Party’, where the guests were able to sample her products at a champagne reception. Merryn will be donating 10% of all purchases made to a local charity.

In greeting the guests, Sarah Deaves spoke of her delight at bringing Coutts’ Women in Business lunches to the County. “Nottinghamshire has a vibrant community of high flying women and with a growing female client base in the region, this is an important growth area for our business.

“Women have been vital to Coutts throughout its 300 year history, initially as both owners and clients, and in more recent times being represented right across our business teams, including my role as first female CEO.

“Today, we do business with over 9,500 of the country’s top entrepreneurs and professionals and have found that they particularly value meeting each other at events like today’s, which we hold on a regular basis across the country.”

A year ago, Nottinghamshire was identified as a hotspot for high net worth women, with over 4,000 choosing to reside in the region.

Sarah added; “It is still quite unusual to meet a large number of senior businesswomen at networking events, so we have added this type of forum to give a different “twist” to our programme. It is proving an attractive change for the growing number of businesswomen we are working with, helping develop connections, relationships and more business for all of them.”

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Claire Symonds, Regional PR Manager, Coutts & Co on 0207 957 2650 or mobile 07970 001149 or e-mail claire.symonds@coutts.com

Notes to Editors

Coutts is the international private banking arm of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group. The Royal Bank of Scotland Group is one of the world's largest banking groups.
Coutts manages the wealth of 96,000 high net worth clients worldwide through a network of 40 offices globally.
The first Coutts regional office to be opened was Eton in 1961. The most recent new opening was Liverpool at the end of 2003. Today, Coutts has regional offices in Bath, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Eton, Guildford, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford, Tunbridge Wells & Winchester.
Coutts offers clients a range of products and services covering sophisticated investment products together with expertise in trust and fiduciary services and UK tax and banking services.
Coutts for three years running, (2003-2005) was awarded ‘Best Use of Long-Only Multi-Manager Structures’ at the Private Asset Management Awards
This year Coutts & Co was named the UK’s Best Private Bank by Euromoney magazine
Coutts & Co is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Coutts & Co Registered in England No 36695Registered Office 440 Strand London WC2R 0QS
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