Red Rooms at The Plaza

Specialties

Red Rooms are Bruntwood’s range of meeting spaces located in many of our office buildings. Red Rooms are available to hire from one hour upwards and come with free WiFi, complementary refreshments and AV equipment as standard. From corporate away days in the countryside to one-​to-​one meetings close to city centre transport links, there’s a Red Rooms venue to meet your needs.

History

Established in 1976.

Bruntwood is a family-​owned and run property company that specialises in creating the right environments for a wide range of businesses to succeed. From a single desk for a day to a whole building for 25 years, we have solutions to suit a wide range of requirements.

With over 100 properties across four UK cities, we provide office space, serviced and virtual offices, meeting rooms and retail premises to companies across a range of different business sectors. We don’t see ourselves as a landlord but rather as our customers’ property partner, making sure that their choice of premises adds the best possible benefit to the way their business works.

We put a large emphasis upon the relationships that we build with customers, suppliers and each other. That emphasis extends to the cities and communities where we operate as we understand that we can only succeed if they succeed too. That is why we have made a long-​term pledge to donate 10% of our annual profits to good causes.

Meet the Business Owner

Michael O.

Business Owner

In 1976 Michael founded the Bruntwood group of companies, which is privately held and owned by the Oglesby family. At the beginning of 2000, he gave up the joint roles of CEO and Chairman and his son, Chris, took over the day-​to-​day running of the company. Currently Michael devotes 20% of the week to Bruntwood in his role as Executive Chairman, and the remainder of his time is devoted to an extensive range of civic and charitable interests.

Michael is a Feoffee of Chetham’s School of Music as well as leading the team responsible for building the new School of Music. He is also Chairman of a number of boards and committees, including the Governors of the Royal Northern College of Music (term ending December 2011), the Steering Board for the Manchester Cancer Research Centre, MIDAS — the inward investment organisation for Greater Manchester, the Growth Hub operational and strategic boards and the Oglesby Charitable Trust, which is one of the largest grant giving trusts in the North.