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A genial and gregarious character of both social and intellectual intelligence. A manager of warm instinct, rather than cold calculation"
Ian Coull was a genial and gregarious character of both social and intellectual intelligence. A manager of warm instinct, rather than cold calculation. A man who has left his stamp on SEGRO, even though he retired in 2011.
When interviewing him in late 2009 for Planet Property, he insisted I meet his finance director, David Sleath. After the encounter, Coull made it clear that he wanted Sleath to have his job. So it came to pass. The essence of that interview was reserved for the final words in the book: "There will undoubtedly be a crash in property values again... don't ever put yourself in a position where you think it is just going to go up all the way, otherwise..."
In September 2002, Toryvoting Slough Estates chairman Sir Nigel Mobbs announced that...