Glyn Pritchard-Jones, Dip Val Surv - Managing Director & Chairman (age: 43)

Born in Pwllheli and a fluent Welsh speaker, Glyn is a Valuation Surveyor with considerable cross-board property experience.

He joined Fletcher King (B1 Offices) in 1989 and in 1990 moved to Mason Owen & Partners (London) in retail agency and development. In September 1993 he joined Lidl Supermarkets as development manager responsible for identifying new build store opportunities, including procurement process to store handover.

Glyn was head-hunted in 1995 by Sears Property Developments Limited (part of Sears plc a FTSE 100 company which owned 28 retail fascias including for instance; Wallis, Warehouse, Richards, Miss Selfridge, Adams Childrenswear, Shoe Express, Shoe City, Cable & Co, Hush Puppies, Sportsworld, The Outfit, Curtess, Selfridges and Freemans catalogue store) where he sourced development deals and built-out new retail food, non-food and retail warehouse development projects in the UK and Ireland generating £24m profit in just over the four years he was with the company.

Photo 5 shows the 112,093 sq ft Tandem Centre located at London SW19 with occupiers including Next, Boots, Comet, JJB (located next to a 235k sq ft Sainsburys joint Marks & Spencers superstore) that Glyn put together including land assembly of costing £9.5M followed by construction and forward investment sale to Hermes (Post Office Pension Fund)at a net initial yeild of 5.9% in 1997. This development made SPDL a profit of £13M. Considered within top 15 retail parks by Colliers CRE. Gilbert Bath acted for SPDL.

Photo 2 shows "Parc Fforestfach" comprising a 109,000 sq ft Tesco Extra and 136,000 sq ft fashion retail at Fforestfach, Swansea that was put together by Glyn in 1996. Parc Fforestfach is the premier out-of-centre retail offer in South Wales and considered to be within the top 10 retail parks in the UK by commercial property consultants Colliers CRE. Gilbert Bath acted for SPDL.

Photo 8 shows Dixons at Gentlemans' Walk, Norwich, a prime retail unit in 100% prime-pitch shopping location. Originally let to Hush Puppies it was redeveloped and let as a shell to Dixons Stores Group and simultaneously sold to Argyll Asset Management for Glasgow City Council Pension Fund for a net initial yield of 4.6% in April 1998. Blair Kirkman acted for SPDL.

Photo 10 is of the Sears property Development Brochure cover of 1997. The brochure showed "completed projects" of 682,000 sq ft, "current development programme" of 899,000 sq ft, "newly secured sites" of 340,000 sq ft and "to be announced" of 500,000 sq ft. This was a premier retail development company in its field, with over £85M of ongoing development projects.

In 1999 Glyn became a consultant to Chelverton West with development projects in Ireland and Portugal. Photo 4 shows the new Tesco at Youghal, Co Cork, Irish Republic, where Glyn had the land under option and sold it on to Tesco Stores Ireland for a direct development.

Photo 6&7 shows Tandem Phase 2 that Glyn land-assembled and put together (as development advisor)for Hermes Estates Limited (Post Office Pension Fund) comprising ground floor retail now let to Coral, Starbucks, Frankie & Benny's, Jessops, Holiday Hypermarket and Nando's with 12 upper floor 2-bed apartments. The development construction was completed in May 2007 by Mowlem. Wilkinson Williams / Cushman & Wakefield acted as letting agents for Hermes.

From 2002 Glyn worked as a consultant for AG&S advising Arsenal Football Club (AFC) in land assembly and developmet (issues) of its land holdings in LB Islington that with residential consent and development would ultimately generate the cash necessary to fund the land assembly, business relocations and new AFC Emirates Stadium construction contract at Ashburton Grove and subsequent redevelopment of The Stadium at Highbury for apartments.

At AG&S, Glyn worked alongside Wilcon Homes (now Taylor Wimpey) and Vizion7.co.uk in four large-scale projects in Islington Borough developing over 1,500 new-build apartments (see Photo 9)

Photo 9 shows 3.44 acres of land at Fforestfach, Swansea (opposite Tesco) that Glyn put together with Longford Property Developments Limited in April 2000 and mixed use permission was subsequently granted for hotel, retail and fast food. Planning permission was later sought and granted for 37 houses and 30 apartments. A sale deal was agreed Bellway Homes with exchange of contracts in October 2007.