Date: Thu 4th September, 2008
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Number of Guests Attended: 150
Comeback entrepreneur Gerald Ratner called for regional business leaders to pull together and work through the economic storm during his speech at Insider’s North West Leaders Dinner 2008.
Ratner bounced back from an infamous PR gaff in 1991 when he joked that a pair of earrings sold in his shop were cheaper than a prawn sandwich but probably wouldn’t last as long. He now runs Britain’s largest online jewellers, Gerald Online, and told the audience that problem solving in the current climate was the key to getting through the tough times.
“Nobody can predict the future and sometimes you need a bit of luck but, however bad it gets, it’s better to be working and surviving,” he said. “We all have stress and business is a series of problems – let’s solve them rather than moan about them.”
The event attracted more than 150 regional business leaders from the corporate and professional arenas including Peter Jones from Emerson Developments, Gerry Yeung from Yang Sing, David Partridge from Argent and architect Ian Simpson, as well as Tom Bloxham, Colin Sinclair, Steven Broomhead, Richard Bailey and David McKeith. The evening was sponsored by DLA Piper and The Co-operative Bank.
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