User:AnemoneProjectors/Weyland & Co

Weyland & Co is a fictional company in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. It's address in the series is given as Hector Street, Canary Wharf, London E14 6AC. However, scenes there are filmed at 40 Bank Street, and the street and postcode do not exist in reality, though a Hector Street exists in Woolwich, London SE18.

Plot
Weyland & Co is first mentioned in the credits of episode 5432 (26 January 2017), when a character played by Simon Williams is credited as "Chairman, Weyland & Co". After a bus crashes into Bridge Street market in Walford, it is revealed that Max Branning (Jake Wood) works for Weyland & Co and he meets the chairman in The Shard, where they discuss the development of Walford, and Max says The Queen Victoria pub is "next on my list" and it can "burn, for all I care".

Max's daughter, Lauren Branning (Jacqueline Jossa), visits Max at work and meets Josh Hemmings (Eddie Eyre), and they are attracted to each other. Lauren decides to apply for a job there. Meanwhile, The Queen Victoria suffers debts and a new bar manager, Woody Woodward (Lee Ryan) is brought in. Max convinces Shirley Carter (Linda Henry) to sell the freehold of The Queen Victoria to a company called Grafton Hill to ease their debts, and a business consultant, Fi Browning (Lisa Faulkner) arrives, and insists that Woody sit in on a meeting with Shirley, where she says they have too many staff. She says that Grafton Hill want Woody to stay, and a barmaid, Tracey (Jane Slaughter), loses her job. Max tells Max not to give Lauren the job and makes sure it is given to another candidate, but Josh then offers Lauren a different job and tells Max that he is his boss and not to tell him what to do, and reminds him about Weyland's mole in The Queen Victoria.

Employees

 * Max Branning – Jake Wood
 * Hugo Browning – Simon Williams
 * Josh Hemmings – Eddie Eyre
 * Receptionist – Kristen Obank
 * Corrine Mandel – Laura Rogers
 * etc