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Yorkshire Business Market is a FULL HOUSE!
All the display space has now been booked at the new Yorkshire Business Market on Monday 28th April 2008 at Pavilions of Harrogate, on the Great Yorkshire Showground in Harrogate. Over 150 businesses from across the region have taken space to display a wide range of products and services to other local businesses. The emphasis is now on encouraging visitors to pre-register for a fast check-in.
Organised by Harrogate Chamber of Trade & Commerce, this is a very cost-effective networking and promotion opportunity which is ideal for any business owners or managers looking for new ideas, new customers and new suppliers within the region.
The Chamber’s Chief Executive Brian Dunsby said “The third Business Market in May 2007 was a resounding success with over 100 companies exhibiting in two rooms and almost 1,000 business visitors attending. This year we will have over 150 companies booked in four rooms and we expect up to 2,000 visitors, due to the much wider promotion across Yorkshire.”
The scope of this year’s Business Market has been expanded to encompass the whole of Yorkshire, with members of 20 local Chambers or Business Associations and 30 Professional Institutes or Societies being sent free invitations. FREE Admission Tickets are also being inserted in all copies of the Leeds Chamber LBU Magazine, the Business Link Magazine and Recruit Yorkshire Magazine - in total 23,000 circulation.
The Yorkshire Business Market is being sponsored by the Learning & Skills Council Train-to-Gain programme and also by the new Business Link Yorkshire which commenced operations on 1st April 2008. The event is featured prominently on the leading local business web sites, including Business Link, Yorkshire Forward, Leeds Chamber, Doncaster Chamber, Harrogate Today, Harrogate Council, Harrogate Tourism, Pavilions of Harrogate, etc. The Market has recently been advertised in a direct mailing to 7,500 businesses across the whole of Harrogate District and the nearby towns.
The event is being promoted extensively each month in Ackrill Media Group’s Business Pink and in a specially enlarged 8 page feature supplement on 18th April in all the Ackrill Media Group Newspapers, with a readership over 100,000 across the whole of Harrogate District and adjoining areas such as Wetherby, Tadcaster and Thirsk. Similar promotion is planned in the Yorkshire Post with a feature supplement on 22nd April. Both Supplements offer discounted advertising to all exhibitors and members.
Special features at the 2008 Yorkshire Business Market include:
- FREE Business Seminars – train-to-gain skills brokers; marketing; web-imaging; selling skills.
- FREE Ask the Expert Panels – how to start up, grow, survive, promote and sell your own business.
- FREE Business Link Clinic – for 1-to-1 private consultations on any business ideas or problems.
- FREE Prize Draws – many exhibitors will offer valuable Prizes if you leave a card on their Stand.
- FREE Shuttle bus service from Harrogate Bus and Rail Station to the Pavilions and back.
- FREE Car Parking + FREE Admission for businesses only + FREE Refreshments all afternoon.
The Business Market will be opened by Phil Willis, MP for Harrogate & Knaresborough and currently Chairman of the House of Commons Select Committee for Innovation, Universities & Skills. The opening ceremony will be followed by a VIP Buffet lunch for leading business people, local Councillors and leaders of local Chambers and Business Associations who will be invited to come and see for themselves this vibrant business-to-business networking event designed to promote business across the whole Region.
EXHIBITOR PROFILE:
Business categories exhibiting will include:- Accountants; Audio visual services; Banks; Banqueting venues; Business advice, coaching & consultancy; Chambers; Charities; Conference & exhibition venues; Credit control, Digital technology; Document scanning; Education; Employment agencies; Estate agents; Exhibition display services; Financial advisers; First aid; Food; Furnishing; Graphic design; Health; Hotels; Information technology; Insurance; Leisure; Marketing; Motor trade; Networking; Office supplies/equipment; Office space; Packing & fulfilment; Payroll services; Printing & mailing; Promotional gifts; Property managers; Public relations; Publishing; Recruitment; Restaurants; Retailers; Safety; Sign and display; Solicitors; Stationery; Surveying; Telecommunications; Tours; Trading Standards; Training; Travel; Vehicles; Video; Web design & hosting; Wedding venues; Wills and other speciality sectors.
FREE BUSINESS SEMINARS:
Located in the Cover Room, starting at 13.00
Chaired by Julian Rawel MSc, MBA, Dip.M, FCIM, Chartered Marketer,
Director of Executive Education, Bradford University School of Management,
13.00: Train to Gain – Skills Brokers & Grants by Bill Macbeth, Textile Centre of Excellence
14.00: What marketing can do for your business by Siobhan Lees, Brighter Marketing Ltd, Leeds
15.00: How to Design, Develop & Promote your web site by David Kirkham, DotComImaging, York
16.00: What Does Effective Selling Involve? by Nick Bramley, IOD Chairman North Yorkshire.
FREE ASK THE EXPERT PANELS:
Located in the Nidd Room, starting at 13.30
13.30: How to start up and grow your own business - Chair: Murray Trantor
14.30: How to grow and relocate your own business - Chair: Fiona Gilbert
15.30: How to finance and survive in your own business - Chair: Michael Best
16.30: How to promote and sell your own business - Chair: Victoria Tomlinson
FREE BUSINESS SUPPORT:
The event is supported by the new Business Link Yorkshire and by Harrogate Borough Council’s Economic Development Unit and Civil Contingencies Manager who offer FREE information and guidance to businesses looking to set-up, expand, relocate and survive in this area. There will be several Companies providing offices and workspaces to rent on easy-in easy-out terms ideal for new business start-ups and those wishing to move beyond the limitations of a home-office environment. For those not sure of the right way forward there will be several business advisers, coaches, consultants, leadership developers, solicitors and trainers, all willing to have a confidential discussion without charge or obligation. For those who have already succeeded, there will be financial advisers keen to guide your investment decisions and of course accountants willing to sort out your tax problems! You only have to ask for help!
FREE ADMISSION:
Entry to the Business Market is FREE to business owners, managers and senior staff on presentation of a business card or completion of an admission ticket and name badge. Children under 16 are not admitted.
Visitors can pre-register on-line to ensure that their name badge is ready and avoid any delay on arrival.
FURTHER DETAILS FROM:
Brian L Dunsby, Chief Executive or Maggie Hall, Chamber Administrator –
Tel: 01423 879208 (2 lines) Fax: 01423 870025; E-mail: market@harrogatechamber.org
Web site: www.yorkshirebusinessmarket.org Click on “Visit” to pre-register as a visitor
