Britannia Building Society

Britannia Building Society provides financial services through more than 250 branches nationwide. Britannia is an important provider of both mortgages and savings in the UK, as well as commercial lending.

Britannia Building Society History

Britannia has been around since 1856, when it was known as the Leek and Moorlands Building Society. Since then a series of agreed mergers has evolved it into today's Britannia. The most recent acquisition was the savings arm and branch network of former building society, Bristol and West. This is the first major re-mutualisation in the United Kingdom, following the demutualisation trend in the late 1990's.

21st September 2005: The transfer of the Bristol & West Branch and Contact Centre network was completed. 94 retail branches from the Bristol & West were eventually trading as Britannia.

03 July 2006: Britannia Building Society staff based at Temple Quay and Parkway Stoke Gifford sites began the move into new premises at Tower Wharf, Cheese Lane Bristol. This represented the final stage of the take over of the former Bristol and West Retail and Direct business.

On the same day all former Bristol and West Retail and Direct customers transfered onto the core Britannia computer systems.

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