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Phil Redmond is the new chairman of National Museums Liverpool (NML). As deputy chairman of the Liverpool Culture Company board, he has been responsible for the creative direction of events in the Capital of Culture year and will take over this role from Loyd Grossman, who stood down on 1 July. Redmond, whose wife Alexis has been a trustee of NML for five years, said: "I think we have got to look beyond 2008. I have put a lot into repositioning the arts and cultural profile in Liverpool over the last year and I have been looking for something to do to keep that going." 
BIC appoints waste management partner Liverpool industrial paint manufacturer Becker Industrial Coatings (BIC) has awarded a long-term total waste management contract to York-based BCB Environmental Management. The contract includes the management of hazardous and non-hazardous waste at BIC's Speke site and is expected to deliver improvements in the reduction, segregation and recycling of waste, as well as cost reductions. BCB will work alongside BIC to hit waste reduction at source in a bid to improve the company's carbon footprint.
Do you speak Esperanto? LittlewoodsDirect.com's new advert set on a tropical island is currently the second best advert in the world according to global industry website Adforum.com. The 40-second advert is second only to Coke's Unity advert. The Littlewoods ad is set on a beautiful tropical island and uses the language Esperanto, which was created by Polish physicist Ludovik Zamenof in 1887. It is part of a £4m marketing campaign.
Public sector needs to pay up, says Broomhead As small and medium-sized businesses battle to survive the credit crunch, the public sector is being called on to help private enterprises survive. At an event hosted by Private Sector Partners NW last week, Steven Broomhead, chief executive of the Northwest Regional Development Agency, promised to contact all public sector partners in the region and urge them to ensure businesses are not hampered by slow payment from the public sector. "Businesses need to keep a tight ship and rely on prompt payments so they can continue at a solid pace without interruption," he said.
Keeping it in the family Family businesses, the core of the Merseyside economy, are undervalued and are neglected by policy makers, according to new research from Credit Suisse. The research also reveals 66 per cent of ethnic minority businesses are family owned and 42 per cent of entrepreneurs have no fixed succession planning. Most small UK family businesses are only one generation old.
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is expected to tell the House of Commons today that it still wants an open-market sale of the 540-strong estate belonging to state-owned pool betting organisation The Tote, one of Wigan's largest employers. It is reported that the government's adviser, Goldman Sachs, has given a valuation of £280m, some way short of the £400m LDC-backed bid rejected a year ago. But the expected bidders, Warrington-headquartered Betfred and Gala Coral, could yet be disappointed should the government delay the sale yet again when Parliament returns in September.
Liverpool is looking to the legal sector to help its commercial property market through the hard times. Weightmans, which has a known requirement for 60,000 to 70,000 sq ft in the city, has appointed Matthews & Goodman to advise on its relocation from India Buildings in Water Street, while Halliwells, currently based in Bruntwood's The Plaza, is said to be looking for up to 40,000 sq ft.
My goodness my Guinness Colliers CRE has let a 37,464 sq ft distribution unit at Guinness Circle in Trafford Park to Global Logistics, on behalf of Canada Life. The company will pay £5.50 per sq ft on a ten-year lease. Guinness Circle's other building is another self-contained unit, comprising 18,646 sq ft.
Prepare to don your gardening gloves and grab a pair of shears, because it’s the tenth anniversary of the RHS Flower Show at Tatton Park this week, starting on Wednesday, and the corporate entertainment crews are out in force. Also on Wednesday, John Hutton, secretary of state for business, enterprise and regulatory reform, is to officially launch the £2bn regeneration initiative that is set to transform West Cumbria into Britain’s Energy Coast. Meanwhile, Cumbria Chamber is launching a series of events around the county to help companies in their procurement efforts with local authorities, starting this week in Workington, Barrow and Penrith.
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