Building after Grenfell
Wake Up To Money
BBC
4.1 • 775 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Will Bain looks at what has to change in construction following the Grenfell Inquiry.
Elsewhere, the Chief Executive of Mountain Warehouse speaks about the company's latest acquisition and broader plans for US expansion, and live music's contribution to the UK economy topped £6bn for the first time last year.
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| 0:44.3 | Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live. |
| 0:47.5 | Hello, morning, welcome to Wake Up to Money. |
| 0:49.5 | The boss of the outdoor clothing retailer Mountain Warehouse tells us about the company's plans for international expansion. |
| 0:55.4 | It's got a great DNA, a great heritage, some really, really good people, and we're excited |
| 1:00.5 | to be taking that on and expanding our business in the US with it. |
| 1:04.5 | Also on the program today, the UK's biggest house builder Barrett built fewer homes this |
| 1:09.0 | year and says it expects to build fewer still next year. |
| 1:11.8 | We'll hear why. And this may come as little surprise after all the Taylor Oasis, Bruce Springsteen |
| 1:17.7 | hype. The live music sector boosted the UK economy by more than six billion pounds last year. |
| 1:22.8 | Wake Up to Money with Will Bain. Yeah, morning. Welcome to wake up to money on Thursday the 5th of |
| 1:28.6 | September, just gone 5 o'clock in the morning. Will Bain with you again today. We're going to be |
| 1:32.1 | chatting live music, top of the six billion mark this year. Perhaps not a surprise, some of those |
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