Penny Black's Insurance Week - 5 December 2013

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Penny has discovered Brightside finance director Paul Chase-Gardener’s hidden talent – the ability to predict the very near future.

During a telephone conversation about Towergate’s Paul Williams taking over from Martyn Holman as Brightside chief executive in 2014, Chase-Gardener told Penny he expected Holman would “pop up as the front-of-house representative of another insurance company at some point in the relatively near future”. Less than half an hour later Holman’s appointment as Markerstudy group commercial director was announced and Penny’s sockettes were well and truly blown off.

Meanwhile, the festive season brings many joys for the thousands within the insurance industry – not least the wonders of the odd Christmas party. Penny was at one such event last week, when her host – one of the lovely team at Direct Line Group – attempted to procure her a Bloody Mary (extra Tabasco, naturally). But pity the poor barman who attempted to serve the spicy beverage without a stick of celery. DLG’s fearsome staff soon dispatched him to Sainsbury’s to buy the essential ingredient. The resulting drink? Delicious, of course.            

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This article was published in the 5 December 2013 issue of Post magazine 

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