![]() ![]() He returned to the UK in 1993 and joined Anita Roddick’s team at ethical cosmetics retailer The Body Shop, where he was global head of corporate services. He started out at accounting powerhouse Arthur Anderson in the 1980s before a stint at US-based Lifetime Corporation, owner of recruitment company Office Angels. ![]() Prior to joining the RFU in 1999, Eastwood had enjoyed a successful career in the financial sector. “Don’t ask me how we did it,” he says on turning around the RFU. An impressive record, but one which Eastwood is keen to downplay in his typically jovial way. In the course of Eastwood’s reign, RFU’s net worth grew from £35m to £180m and the organisation went from recording a £5m annual loss to making profits of £15m. Prior to joining Wasps in 2012, he spent a 12-year spell as finance director of the Rugby Football Union (RFU), during which he oversaw a dramatic turnaround in the sports body’s fortunes. “The huge non-rugby business at Ricoh – the event spaces, restaurants, the casino – turns over £40m a year and will mean that financially, we’ll be able to compete with European heavyweights like Toulouse.”Įastwood’s vision of challenging Europe’s top clubs in sporting and economic terms is ambitious – even audacious – but should come as no surprise, considering his impressive track record. “Overnight, we went from having the second smallest turnover in the Premiership to having the biggest. “The move to Ricoh has given us the security the club has craved for years and is the first step in returning this historic club where it belongs – to the top of Europe,” he says. The club had struggled financially for years, partly due to it not having its own stadium – resulting in diminished non-matchday revenues – since it sold its ground in Sudbury in 1996. Wasps’ acquisition of Ricoh, for a reported £20m – Eastwood remains tight-lipped about the exact price – in October 2014 marks a remarkable turnaround for a club that was, just 18 months prior, within seconds of going into liquidation due to unpaid bills. “It’s a watershed moment and central to our plans to return to the top of European rugby.” I would have guessed it to list for 50-100% more than what I knew I paid.I don’t think you can over-estimate the effect that acquiring the Ricoh Arena will have on us as a club,” says Nick Eastwood, the softly-spoken deputy chair of Wasps Rugby Club. I was actually surprised it sold for the price Eastwood sells them for. The locking mechanism holds well and the jaws have a quality precision about them that makes the bends clean and crisp. It doesn't feel cheap or have imprecise cheap movement in the mechanism. The tool feels well built for being a stamped steel vise grip clone. If you're good with your welder, you'll have minimal mud work to do on the panel once you've laid the bead and ground it down. Makes clean bends and the resulting welds are stronger than I expected and seem much stronger than butt welds I've laid in the past. If you're having to fight it or feel like you need popeye arms, your settings need a tweak. I even found the sweet spot in the set up of the tool to make the prep work almost effortless in 18-20ga body panels and numerous patches. Works well, helps produce a stronger weld joint I've seamed about 3-4 feet of sheet metal with this tool so far and once the initial adjustments are made (read the instructions!) its been super easy. Headlights - Taillights - Accessories - More. ![]()
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