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Regular monthly sections. Agenda - news, events, Briefing, People, Simon Pure, Deals - dedicated corporate finance section with editorial comment and monthly deals tables.
With businesses widely putting relocations on hold as they battled the recession, 2009 was undoubtedly a challenging year for Yorkshire’s office market. Yet despite such pressures, Leeds’ city market still reached an annual take-up of 420,000 sq ft for the calendar year, 150,000 sq ft of which was transacted during the final quarter.
After a tough 2009, there are signs that Yorkshire’s deals market is coming back to life in the first quarter of 2010, with some notable M&A activity in recent weeks. In our report, we look at who has had a busy start to the year and analyse the background to the transactions.
Ahead of Insider’s Business Tourism awards in March, we unveil the shortlist in all our categories for this year’s dinner. Find out who is raising their game in large, small and unique venues and discover who is in the running for the best business hotel of the year. Other categories include the best event of the past 12 months, as well as new venue and personality of the year. Anyone who’s anyone in Yorkshire’s hospitality and leisure industry cannot afford to miss our coverage this month.
Our inward investment section this month takes us across the region as we find out what is influencing business investment decision-making.
Like other regions of the UK, Yorkshire has rebuilt its towns and cities over the past ten years on the back of rising asset values. The transformation is evident for all to see, but with the debt-funding model essentially broken, just how will we now progress the major regeneration work that has started?
As in other regions of the UK, the value of sport to the Yorkshire economy is growing fast as the country as a whole benefits from not only the run-up to the Olympics but also from our bids to host the rugby and football World Cups. The value of sport to our business tourism economy should also not be underestimated, as evidenced by the impact that hosting the BBC’s Sports Personality show recently had for Sheffield.
Following the launch of our 2010 class of 42 entrepreneurs under the age of 42 last month, in our March issue, we profile another 14 young guns who have made the grade this year, looking at why and how they went into business and what has been the secret of their success since. We also take the opportunity to quiz them on what life is really like for a young entrepreneur starting out in the UK today.
Marketing is crucial to businesses looking to reinforce or re-establish their presence in the wake of the downturn. With the worst of the recessionary storm over, now is the perfect time for businesses to tell the world they’ve survived. But who should tell the story for you? With a lower volume of advertising in the market right now, there’s never been a better time to buy a lot of media with your money and make your voice heard. But who should you choose to run your campaign? In this month’s issue, we point you in the right direction.
China is on course to become the world’s largest economy by 2050, a growth Britain is already capitalising on: the UK is the largest European investor in China and also one of the top European destinations for Chinese inward investment.
