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more Countrywide plc disruption as chairman leaves largest UK high street estate agency

Last year saw  a long line of senior management leave countrywide plc ,once touted as the largest estate agent.  Now rumbles within the board room have ushered out the chairman, after the company flouted corporate governance guidelines by promoting him from the top executive job Some media outlets, have spruced up the departure by adding that the CW board has hired, head hunters for his replacement. Turner over saw the stock market flotation of the high street agency chain just before the 2007 market crash, a deal that made him millions of pounds. The veteran chairman of Countrywide, the UK’s biggest estate agent, is to move out of the company’s boardroom two years after it flouted corporate governance guidelines by promoting him from the top executive job. Sky News understands that Countrywide’s board has hired headhunters to work on a succession plan to replace Grenville Turner, who took over as chairman in the autumn of 2014. The search for a new chairman...