Mark Dixon from Regus and Sir Stelios Haji-loannou from the Easygroup are currently exchanging blows over serviced offices. The dispute comes after Regus invested in EasyOffices.com last year in order for the company to expand internationally, meanwhile Sir Stelios launched his own foray into the serviced office sector with his company Easyoffice. EasyOffices.com started in 2000 as a serviced office broker and was noticed by the Easygroup who wanted the company to change it’s name, this didn’t happen. Easyoffices.com has now come to the attention of the Easygroup once again due to a meeting between Mr Dixon and Mr Hajii-loannou that took place last year. Both parties are disputing what was said with Sir Stelios saying that they discussed a potential partnership while Mr Dixon says that Sir Stelios “picked our brains on this sector”. In a letter to Regus’ lawyers, the Easygroup claim that EasyOffices.com are “piggy-backing off the enormous goodwill that [Easygroup] have built up in their ‘Easy’ brands”, while Regus counter that “Stelios does not own the word ‘Easy’.”
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this could be an interesting fight between stelios and dixon, you can see both sides but stelios could have called his company something other than easyoffice couldn’t he? easyofficespace, easyservicedoffices, easybusinesscentres
Certainly a battle of ego’s going on here, neither of these guys are going to back off and lose face no matter how much money they have to throw at their lawyers. If Stelios objects to easyoffices on the grounds that it has the word easy in it is he going to go after every other easythisandthat company on the net? Or is it that he only wants to get rid of them because of his easyoffice?