Good evening chums18 Feb 2012 20:24
Been out all day so just caught up. Interesting response from JF There. My comments on that :
As I originally stated we were not sure if CLAIMS PEOPLE DIRECT LIMITED based in Shoreham were in any way connected to RIIG or the other "Claims People" related companies. JF confirms that it is not so that's great, we can eliminate that from our list.
Then we have the statement from JF that "I know nothing of THE CLAIMS PEOPLE LIMITED or CLAIMS ANALYSTS LIMITED". Fair enough, I accept this statement. However, this left me somewhat confused because the 3 companies here are so similar. My confusion is really not that surprising if you look at the following data,:
Company ID 03922895 - Started up 10/2/2000 - THE CLAIMS PEOPLE GROUP PLC now renamed as RIIG (JF's company)
Company ID 03922897 - Started up 10/2/2000 - curr called THE CLAIMS PEOPLE LIMITED
Company ID 03922902 - Started up 10/2/2000 - curr called CLAIM ANALYSTS LIMITED
3 almost consecutive company house ID numbers and in addition please note that the registered office for ALL 3 OF THESE companies is Lion House, Red Lion Street, London, WC1R 4GB. I felt that this warranted a little more research so I took a look at the 2 companies in question, 2 companies which were incorporated on exactly the same date and which have exactly the same registered office as JF's company. In particular I was keen to see who the directors were. This is what I found:
THE CLAIMS PEOPLE LIMITED - directors include Barry Whyte and Stephen Coke
CLAIMS ANALYSTS LIMITED - directors include Barry Whyte and Stephen Coke
I think most here recognise those names. Barry Whyte is Non Executive Director of RESOURCES IN INSURANCE GROUP and Stephen Coke is Finance Director/Company Secretary of RESOURCES IN INSURANCE GROUP. All of this is basic company information which is freely available to all.
As a potential investor of RIIG, I think it concerns me somewhat that JF, the Executive Chairman of RIIG, is totally unaware of 2 companies being directed by 2 of his own fellow company directors, companies which were incorporated on exactly the same day, registered at exactly he same office in London and one (THE CLAIMS PEOPLE LIMITED) which has almost the same name as his own company (THE CLAIMS PEOPLE GROUP PLC). I don't understand how a group of directors, who are all supposed to be working together for the benefit of RIIG, are able to be running separate companies of similar names without each other's knowledge. That makes no sense to me. I'd be interested to hear other people's views of what this all means. I found it all totally confusing and it's not what I expected to find TBH. I'm done with this research at this point.