Stelios opens serviced office business
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easyJet founder and serial entrepreneur Stelios Haji-Ioannou is entering the serviced office business with a chain of easyOffices targeted especially at start-ups. The first opens in London on the 14th of November 2007. Other offices are expected to follow swiftly in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Like other easyGroup businesses Stelios has given his serviced offices a twist. The price you pay for a unit depends on how much demand there is when you book. So a unit that costs the minimum of £99 a week if you book well in advance will cost more if you leave it till there are few units left.
The London site, located in Kensington, has 35 units, which you can hire for a minimum of one week up to a maximum of three months. Booking is online at www.easyoffice.co.uk. At the moment there is a special offer of £10 if you book now for the first week.
According to Stelios, easyOffice is “designed with the true start-up entrepreneur in mind who knows it’s a smart business move not to waste money, especially at the start of a new venture”.
There are off course plenty of other serviced offices on the market, so it remains to be seen whether easyOffice will shake the sector up, either by reducing prices or introducing more flexible bookings.
But even if not, Stelios has a second string to his bow. In partnership with established brokerage firm Instant Offices you can search and book offices NOT owned by Stelios in around 4,000 locations in the UK and worldwide from the www.easyoffice.co.uk site.
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