Once every Preston Guild
There’s a saying in these parts a bit like "once in a blue moon" and it’s "once every Preston Guild". Not many people outside the North West will be aware of the latter saying, so here is a short local …
Clive Drinkwater
Clive Drinkwater is the regional director for UK Trade and Investment in the North West Region, responsible for helping North West businesses achieve success in overseas markets. Clive has taken up this role following extensive private sector experience in international trade, working in industry and selling to over 90 countries worldwide. Clive has particular experience in Asia, having gained first hand experience of the area during spells living and working in Indonesia, Malaysia and China
A move towards innovation
I saw a joke recently from Professor Brian Cox: The world is made up of 10 kinds of people – those that understand binary and those that don’t! It’s not often that you get a good joke with a bit …
Exporting achievements fit for a Queen
I was sent one of those picture texts this week by a friend who had been invited to a Royal Garden Party. He was outside the gates of Buckingham Palace resplendent in his morning suit and his wife in a …
Great British icons stand the test of time
I recently visited Jaguar Land Rover with Lord Green and was privileged to see the new production line for the Range Rover Evoque which launches on 4 July. Its manufacture at Halewood in Merseyside has created 1500 new jobs …
Cheshire - taking its trade and investment seriously
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If I mention Cheshire you may think of a leafy county, the beautiful city of Chester with its Roman walls, the Cheshire set or even footballers’ wives. Personally I just think of it as my natural backyard so I must …
Crossing our fingers is not enough
Forbes has just issued its list of billionaires for 2011 and it makes interesting reading. I’ll admit that I struggle with understanding what it would be like to be a billionaire and, even if I were lucky enough to win …
Lancashire reaches out to the world
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Engineering, Export, Food & drink, Manufacturing, North West, Security
I have just returned from a two day tour of Lancashire, an area which I’m afraid I visit all too infrequently, despite having an aunt living in Blackpool. Now when you think of Lancashire what do you imagine? Is it …
ICT - the inside story on opportunities
As a fresh faced young boy at grammar school in Newcastle-under-Lyme in the early 70s I recall being handed a stack of what they called punch cards on to which I was taught to apply binary coding to programme a …
Thoughts for the New Year
It’s that time of year again when we consider what we have been doing and plan how we can do things differently in the coming year. As we look ahead to 2011, we have some uncertain economic times ahead but …
Beauty and Steel
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Energy, Engineering, Export, Investing in the UK, North West
This time last week, I was waking up in a very snowy but extraordinarily beautiful Cumbria as I had taken my wife to Sharrow Bay to celebrate her birthday. Driving up there I was reminded yet again how stunning the …