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.
The 2012 showcase is down in the Big Smoke, so how involved can the Midlands be? Stuart Wilkin reports.
NEC Group boss Paul Thandi is a man with big ideas, about his own business and the city. John Duckers went to meet him.
