Article: Carpetbaggers In Webwide Move to Target British Building Societies.

Article: Right of Reply: Michael Hardern The founder of ...
The Independent - London;  January 19, 1999 ;     471 words ... ... 18 January), that Friendly Societies and Building Societies can provide us with significant advantages rests ... or deserve to. The democratic deficit in the building societies beggars belief. Jam today, please!

Article: Family Finance: Can building societies survive? ...
The Sunday Telegraph London;  May 2, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... grata with other building societies, most of which ... when told by the Building Societies Association that ... purely to milk building societies of any conversion ... may be going. Michael Hardern, the strange butler ...

Article: Building societies fight back; 'Carpet baggers' ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  January 2, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Two building societies with headquarters ... convert to banks. Building societies start the New Year ... societies from Mr Michael Hardern - a freelance butler ... attempt to bring down building societies which are democratic ...

Article: Building societies unite to fend off the ...
The Scotsman;  January 7, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... fighting a challenge by Michael Hardern, a self-styled carpetbagger ... director general of the Building Societies Association, said the ... to mutuality. He said building societies provided essential competition ... Patricia Hewitt advised building societies not to feel ...

Article: Hewitt snubs building societies' plea
The Independent - London;  January 7, 1999 ;     593 words ... ... proposal, because building societies belong to the members ... blow to heads of building societies, seven of which ... lodged last week by Michael Hardern, the eccentric ... takeover bids." Building societies complain that the ...

Article: Why it's vital we resist the building society parasites; ...
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  January 11, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... 1997 to convert building societies into banks and ... that the remaining building societies now sit at the ... freelance butler Michael Hardern who last year came ... targeting seven building societies, including the ...

Article: The windfalls of war; BUILDING SOCIETIES GEAR UP ...
The Mirror (London, England);  May 19, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... continues to hit building societies. Tipsters believe ... a battle - but building societies are equipped to ... by former butler Michael Hardern to turn the society ... Bromwich. And building societies are within their ...