Company type | Public |
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Founded | 1835 |
Headquarters | , |
Key people | Dominic Agace (CEO) |
Winkworth plc is an international estate agent listed on the AIM London Stock Exchange.
Winkworth was founded in 1835 by the brothers Henry St John and Edward Henry Thomas Winkworth. [1] The original head office was on Curzon Street, Mayfair, with a country office in Brighton. [1]
Winkworth went public on the AIM London Stock Exchange in 2009, [2] [3] when it had 89 franchises in Great Britain, [4] France and Portugal. [2] By 2016, it had expanded into the Spanish market, with an office in Marbella on the Costa del Sol. [5]
Its chief executive officer is Dominic Agace. [6]
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