KPMG 'fitting out new London offices'

Accountancy firm KPMG has begun fitting out its new offices in London's Docklands area.

The company spent £260 million on the premises, which will be up and running before the end of 2010, reports Accountancy Age.

More than 4,000 people in London finance jobs are to move to the facility at Canada Square, although its current headquarters at Salisbury Square will remain in use.

Other KPMG offices will be consolidated into a single location, although it is not known which other London premises will stay open.

Speaking after the initial purchase of the Canary Wharf site, KPMG chairman and senior partner John Griffith-Jones said it was an "important step" towards creating an office space that reflects its core values.

He added that the premises would also embrace the "changing ways we will work together in the years ahead".

The office is being fitted out by award-winning interior designer Swanke Hayden Connell, which recently carried out similar work for Merrill Lynch.

Updated: 25 September 2009.
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