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As Liverpool enjoys its year in the cultural limelight with high expectations of chart-topping visitor numbers, The Albert Dock has announced a rise of 46.7 per cent in visitor numbers compared to this time last year. These figures coincide with the opening of the first phase of Liverpool One, Europe's biggest city centre retail development programme, and the world premiere of Gustav Klimt's exhibition at Tate Liverpool. 
Green power for the region Liverpool-based renewable energy company Eco Environments has become a lead player in the provision of green energy systems following its Microgeneration Certification Scheme accreditation for the installation of Solar PV systems and wind turbines. As the region prepares for a low-carbon future, Eco Environments is only the second company in the North West to achieve this status and one of only a handful in the UK. The news means Eco Environments can now help customers obtain all the grants, loans and tax breaks available for solar and wind installations.
High-profile appointment at McEntegart Liverpool-based marketing and PR agency McEntegart Marketing (MM) has appointed a new account director. Victoria Worrall joins the company having spent ten years working for some of the UK's largest agencies including Publicis, WCRS and DDB in London. MM, whose clients include Medicash, the TUC and Shopcreator, was backed by Merseyside Special Investment Fund when it started up two years ago. The company now has five full-time staff working from its Liverpool office, operates a technology division in Nottingham and continues to work with its sister agency, Cosine, in Washington DC.
St Helens-based electrical engineering business AT Group has today announced a secondary management buyout led by managing director Rob Rushton and funded by Alliance & Leicester Commercial Bank. The original management buyout saw the directors acquire a 49 per cent stake in the company, with the remaining 51 per cent being acquired by Close Brothers Growth Capital, which has now sold out to the directors. The business employs 300 people and has a turnover of around £20m.
S&D takes flight following Lombard funding S&D Leisure (Europe), a Manchester-based operator of mobile leisure and flight simulators, has merged with JG Services of Bedford and Smart Simulation of Leicester to form S&D Simulations, a new company that will run the largest independent fleet of mobile simulators in Europe. S&D will operate six mobile simulators, having recently purchased four new machines - a Formula One car and three flight simulators - in a £440,000 deal funded by Lombard, the asset finance arm of The Royal Bank of Scotland.
KBC looks the part Asset-based lender KBC Business Capital has funded the £20m management buyout of Imperial Multipart, the Chorley-based logistics firm. KBC, which funds mid-sized UK businesses with funding requirements starting at £2m, provided a revolving £15m asset-based lending package linked to accounts receivable and freehold property in support of the buyout. Multipart provides inventory and logistics management specialising in supplying spare parts and components to clients including LDV, Isuzu, Dennis Eagle, TVR and the British Army.
Fudi, a sandwich and salad bar already operating in Leeds' Bridgewater Place, is to open an outlet at English Cities Fund's St Paul's Square scheme in Liverpool. The deal, currently in solicitors' hands, follows the launch last week of the 133,000 sq ft Five St Paul's Square, which has deals in place with HBOS and DWF, for 11,950 sq ft and 44,000 sq ft respectively.
DBH becomes a Pioneer Serviced office provider DBH has signed up as the first occupier at a five-acre office development at Pioneer Business Park, Ellesmere Port. This will be DBH's ninth serviced office centre, following those in Liverpool city centre, Bootle, Gateshead, Tees Valley, Hull, Nottingham, Dudley and, opening in August 2008, Barnsley. In total Pioneer Park, owned by Peel and positioned between junctions 7 and 8 of the M53, comprises 87 acres and will house a mixture of industrial and office space.
Sutton Kersh seeks buyer for Frenson site Liverpool property agency Sutton Kersh has been appointed by Frenson to sell a block of Georgian houses in Duke Street for around £2.5m. Frenson, the business headed by the low-profile Max Stone and the Ropewalks' most prominent landholder in recent years, had planned to develop 35 apartments, five penthouses, office space and a restaurant at the site, for which a previous planning permission is currently under review.
Among the many business events taking place across the North West this week, look out for the Food Northwest Awards 2008, being held at the ACC Liverpool on Thursday night and the inaugural Knowledge Economy Business Breakfast at Liverpool Science Park (LSP) on Friday, planned as a quarterly networking event brought to you by LSP, Merseyside ICT and Shipley Solicitors. From Wednesday until the end of the week Manchester's Museum of Science & Industry plays host to b.TWEEN, a cross-media forum for northern creative businesses. And keep an eye out throughout the Liverpool business district for herds of decorated Superlambananas, with clusters appearing today along Old Hall Street, Water Street and around St Paul’s Square as part of the Capital of Culture celebrations.
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