Helping North West Businesses Survive and Thrive
Business Link Northwest is delighted to support Business North West 2009.
This is an ideal opportunity for us to meet thousands of North West businesses, helping them to benefit from our impartial, free-to-use business support and information service.
We provide relevant and up-to-date information for all businesses and individuals in the North West.
Our award winning website www.businesslink.gov.uk/northwest provides businesses with up to the minute local and national information on a wide range of topics, as well as a comprehensive business and skills supplier catalogue that features the best suppliers in the region.
This service is supported by business-facing brokers that work on the ground to provide businesses across the North West with in-depth industry knowledge and expertise. Brokers work closely with businesses to help them to move forward by linking business goals with practical solutions.
We recognise that businesses don’t just operate ‘9 to 5’; so our service can be accessed in a number of ways.
Visit www.businesslink.gov.uk/northwest
Contact our Business Information and Enquiry team on 0845 00 66 888.
We’re on hand to take your calls and emails between 8am-8pm Monday to Friday, as well as from 8am-2pm at weekends and bank holidays
Or email us at info@businesslinknw.co.uk
Greater Manchester Chamber is delighted to be working in partnership with Business North West 2009. It's a great opportunity for businesses - many of whom are our members - to come together for a two-day extravaganza of networking, events and doing business with one other!
What we like about the event is that it's so much more than just an exhibition. As well as the stands, there are seminars, workshops and presentations, so there's a good chance you'll pick up some great advice as well as new customers!
Supporting last year's event helped to boost our profile and put us in front of thousands of businesses currently operating in the region. It meant we were able to promote our services and benefits to hundreds of companies previously untouched by the Chamber.
Greater Manchester Chamber is the UK's largest Chamber, working every day with businesses of all sizes and sectors, and we look forward to seeing you at this year's event.
The Chamber of Commerce East Lancashire is delighted to support this year's Business North West exhibition. We will be exhibiting at the event and on hand to share our business knowledge and professional advice with fellow exhibitors and visitors.
East Lancashire is a hotspot for business trade and the show is a fantastic opportunity to highlight the scope of ambitious organisations and talent that are in the region. Business North West is the region's premier business exhibition and our support is a proactive step to giving local businesses the opportunity to open doors for the future on a regional and even national level.
We are a trusted source for business support which offers business to business networking, international trade guidance and training, website design and e-business solutions, management and staff development training, market research, supply chain solutions and a variety of free or discounted products and services.
Find out how we can help you at www.chamberelancs.co.uk or contact Barbara Terech on 01254 356 435
St Helens Chamber is delighted to support Business North West 2009.
Having attended the event as visitors in previous years, we were impressed with the buzzing atmosphere and clear evidence of companies networking and doing business together. So much so that this year we decided to exhibit at the event, along with a number of our member companies from the Borough of St Helens.
St Helens Chamber Ltd is one of the most of the most successful and influential Chambers, with the highest rate of business involvement in the UK. Together with an extensive range of business support, the Chamber also provides a comprehensive selection of exclusive discounted Membership services aimed at saving both time and money. The Chamber ensures that businesses and people of St Helens have access to effective and focused training.
Visit us on Stand No 185 to find out more.
As a world-wide association of members, the IoD provides a professional network that reaches every corner of the business community. This year the IoD is pleased to be supporting Business North West as the region's biggest business networking event.
The IoD has 50,000 members in the UK, with around 3000 members in the North West, spanning the whole spectrum of business leadership. Being in partnership with Business North West is a perfect way to put us in front of our relevant audience and to increase our profile.
Members of the IoD include CEOs of large corporations as well as entrepreneurial directors of start-up companies and from all sectors of the economy - from media to manufacturing, e-business to public sector.
Business North West will enable us to promote our membership offering and to inform individual directors that by being an IoD member they have an influential organisation on their side - representing their concerns to government - and at their side - providing professional business support, wherever it is needed.
We are looking forward to a bigger and better Business North West 2009 with more partnerships being formed and a superb opportunity for businesses in the region to grow and to further their success.
More information at: www.iod.com/northwest
Telephone: 0161 209 3155
Email: iod.northwest@iod.com
Sir Richard Leese
Leader of Manchester City Council
"I am delighted to welcome Business North West to Manchester, giving us the opportunity to showcase our thriving city to over 4,000 businesses from all over the UK and Europe to Manchester Central, in the country's leading conference quarter
Our partnership with Business North West continues to generate innovation and challenging debate surrounding key topics affecting today's businesses. Delegates benefit from best practice workshops and shared lessons learnt from the country's leading business experts and entrepreneurs.
Business North West at Manchester Central is leading by example in making this year's event carbon neutral.
As a leading local authority, it is Manchester City Council's goal to help local businesses to thrive and prosper, and especially in these times of economic caution it is vital that they harness opportunities to reduce waste, increase margins and promote their green credentials by adopting modern environmental practices.
Indeed, a recent Delloitte report indicates that the city region can benefit from £21bn growth by the early adoption of sustainable business practice. Businesses can find out how to do this by visiting the council's Environmental Business Pledge stand at the exhibition which gives details of a free advice service for Manchester businesses to make significant environmental and cost savings.
Manchester has been at the forefront of economic development at many stages in history, and it refuses to accept obstacles to prosperity, instead we apply creative ideas to innovate and regenerate through investing in high quality infrastructure, business support strategies and our local communities.
We recognise the importance of Manchester's thriving business community at the heart of the city region and therefore the City Council strongly supports the Business North West event and its role in enhancing Manchester's competitive edge as a world class city."
The Chartered Institute of Marketing is proud to be a part of the North West’s premier business show for a third year. Marketing plays an imperative role to successful business regardless of size of company, and the CIM understands that Business North West provides a fantastic platform to promote our services to SME market.
The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) is the world's largest professional marketing body. Defining the marketing standards (www.cim.co.uk/standards) that operate in the UK and championing best practice globally, CIM is the voice of marketing with influence felt at the highest levels in industry and government on a national and international level.
The Institute exists to develop the marketing profession, and improve the skills of marketing practitioners, enabling them to deliver exceptional results for their organisations. CIM North West runs a range of events and courses, which are open to members and non members, and is committed to raising the bar for marketing in the region with the help of its strong, dedicated and 3000 strong membership.
Find out how we can help you at www.cim-nw.org.uk
Google is very pleased to be involved with the Business North West Exhibition and Conference, both as an educational contributor through the Google Universities, and as a marketing contributor to The Marketing Propeller. The Internet and e-commerce is an increasingly important part of the economy of the British economy, and Google is very keen to continue to help North West businesses get the most out of the opportunities the information age presents.
Google is a public and profitable company focused on search services. Named after the mathematical term "googol", Google operates web sites at many international domains with the most frequently visited being www.google.com. Google is widely recognised as the "world's best search engine" because it is fast, accurate and easy to use. The company also serves corporate clients, including advertisers, content publishers and site managers with cost-effective advertising and a wide range of revenue generating search services. Google's breakthrough technology and continued innovation serve the company's mission of "organising the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful.
The Manchester Evening News is delighted to be partnering Business North West 2009. The 2008 event was such a huge success that we did not hesitate to get involved once again.
MEN Business is by far the biggest and most prestigious business related publication in the North West with a minimum three pages of business news every Mon, Weds, Thurs and Fri. Each Tuesday we publish a full colour 32 page pullout supplement featuring up to the minute business news and regular feature pages such as Commercial Property, Professionals, and Media. The supplement carries reader interactive polls and surveys such as “Manchester’s Greatest Industrialist” and regular corporate reviews covering topics such as Employment Law, The Fastest Growing Companies and Corporate Finance.
We see Business North West as an excellent opportunity for businesses in the region to expand and further their success, network and showcase their products and services and as such it is a natural fit for MEN Business to be the official media partner.
For further information contact
Email: simon.lees@menmediasales.co.uk
Telephone: 0161 279 4144