Held at the De Vere Belfry, GHL drew together over 150 ARs and Directly Authorised brokers (Das) to a ‘mini Expo’ during the day, with lenders supporting the event by hosting exhibition stands and holding seminars on hot topics and current industry issues.
During the evening, GHL presented awards to their top achieving brokers and packagers either side of unveiling their new corporate identity and announcing an overseas conference for ten of their ARs to Marbella in 2007.
GHL sales and marketing director, John Smith, was delighted with the outcome of the groups first ever Gala Event.
He said: “I cannot emphasise how successful this event was and just how much positive feedback we have had from our members and lenders who were exhibiting and hosting seminars during the day.
“Network events like this are a hard nut to crack in terms of guaranteeing a strong attendance but I am pleased to say that we managed to attract a significant number of both Das and ARs to the day, with more than 160 ARs for the evening dinner and awards ceremony.”
Product providers, who attended the exhibition found the seminars very useful, and according to John, have already committed to backing the event next year.
Karen Bailey, director of Derby Mortgage Centre, one of GHL’s ARs, said: “The Gala Event was obviously a huge success for GHL. We found the seminars to be very informative and the entire event was extremely well executed. We particularly benefited from having the lenders exhibiting as close together as they did.”
