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Alliance Building Society

Other Business Names:

  • Brighton & Sussex Equitable Building Society
  • Alliance & Leicester Building Society
  • Banco Santander
  • Alliance & Leicester Plc

Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:

  • Brighton, Brighton & Hove, East Sussex, South East, England

Sectors:

  • Financial services Building & freehold land society services

Notes:

Established 1875 as Brighton & Sussex Equitable Building Society. Expanded rapidly from 1930s by acquisition. Renamed Alliance Building Society in 1945. 1985 merged with Leicester Building Society to form Alliance & Leicester Building Society. 1997 floated as a bank - Alliance & Leicester Plc - and 2008 acquired by Banco Santander

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