Grenfell United welcomes Ulster decision to end Kingspan deal Sport Business Grenfell survivors have welcomed Ulster Rugby’s decision to discontinue its stadium naming rights deal with Kingspan, an insulation maker criticised over the London tower block tragedy. Ulster announced this week it had begun the process of removing Kingspan branding from its home ground in Belfast after a long-term sponsorship deal with the local firm, which [...]
Golfer Maguire urged to drop Kingspan sponsorship following Grenfell Inquiry Sport Business Fellow golfer Shane Lowry ended his commercial relationship with Kingspan last week after the public inquiry into the London tower block fire.
Grenfell: Firms involved to be barred from public contracts, Starmer vows Politics Companies involved in the failings that led to the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy will no longer be awarded government contracts, Sir Keir Starmer has said. The Prime Minister apologised for the disaster – which saw 72 people die in the tower block blaze in June 2017 – in a grave statement to the House of [...]
Grenfell Tower fire: ‘Systematic dishonesty’ by construction firms, report reveals September 4, 2024 The 72 deaths in the Grenfell Tower fire were avoidable, and the blaze was a result of “decades of failure” by government and the construction industry, a report into the disaster has concluded. Scores of people who lost their lives in the blaze which engulfed the 24-storey tower block in north Kensington, on June 14, [...]
Grenfell Tower fire inquiry set to reveal findings on companies and government September 2, 2024 The second and final report of the long-running Grenfell Tower Inquiry will be released this Wednesday, bringing renewed attention to the catastrophic events that led to the loss of 72 lives in June 2017. The report is expected to contain 1,700 pages worth of scrutiny over the conditions that allowed the fire to spread so [...]