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Issue - January 2010

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the January 2010 issue of Insider reflects on the horrible year that 2009 turned out to be for the Midlands business community and looks for signs that things are going to be better in 2010. In the commercial property field we look at the developments that are likely to complete and those that are likely to start on site. Our cover story this month looks at the business of sport on this region. How important is it to the regional economy and what prospects are there for local businesses to win contracts from the London Olympics?

Strategies for success

We’ve spent a bit of time this month thinking about how best to market our cities. This has been triggered by a number of things. Birmingham planning and regeneration chief Clive Dutton made a few ‘exit interview’ comments about the city trying to market itself by committee before heading off to his new job in London; while Marketing Birmingham and inward investment body Locate in Birmingham have moved closer to a merger by ‘co-locating’ in the same office.

Coining it in

The 2012 showcase is down in the Big Smoke, so how involved can the Midlands be? Stuart Wilkin reports.

Conventional wisdom

NEC Group boss Paul Thandi is a man with big ideas, about his own business and the city. John Duckers went to meet him.

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