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Liverpool Science Park tapping into innovation and talent
Liverpool Science Park’s chief talks to Alex Turner about the vision for a new £9m centremore

Working to ensure overseas firms have a ‘soft landing’ on arrival to the city to establish business
TECHNOLOGY companies from Finland and China could be among the first to take advantage of a “soft landing” facility at Liverpool Science Park.more

Trading Gossip
GLAD to report Ryanair has been doing its bit for dignity in the workplace. The airline’s deputy chief executive, Michael Cawley, paid a flying visit to Liverpool John Lennon Airport yesterday to lambast Chancellor Alistair Darling’s air passenger duty proposals. The talkative Irishman found time to show off his company’s latest philanthropic exploit.more

Working Day: Bert Bourchier
BERT BOURCHIER is one of the directors of B&B Hygiene and Bromley Cleaning Services, based in Huyton.more

Trading gossip
THANKS to Dee Roberts, below, director of Merseyside demolition company Oldham Bros, for sending us the following notice which she spotted in the window of a coal store.more

Working Day: Jason Spencer
JASON SPENCER is head of the Insurance Practice Group, the largest practice group in Hill Dickinson with a turnover of £23m. He regularly handles high-profile, precedent-setting cases.more

I want creative staff who retain a sense of humour
Tony McDonough meets DREW FOSTER, owner of ITC Travelmore

Relaxed attitude towards business
Alex Turner meets chef Gary Manning who owns three top-class restaurants in Liverpoolmore

Working Day: Rod Davies
ROD DAVIES of Business Doctors works from offices in Newton-le-Willows. The company specialises in helping small and medium-sized businesses to achieve the next level of growth. Rod takes a hands-on role helping companies from the Merseyside area, while also guiding Business Doctors’ national expansion via franchise.more

DRAMA at Liverpool’s BT Convention Centre yesterday at the British Council of Shopping Centres annual conference.
All was going swimmingly until one of the burners used to keep the food warm fell off a table, setting the carpet on fire.more

OPINION: Why PR and marketing are essential in a downturn
WHEN it comes to making cutbacks, a company’s mar- keting and PR budget can be quick to face the chop.more

Best value for money has proved winning formula for telecoms firm
Alex Turner meets MATT NEWING, managing director of Elite Tele.commore

100-strong delegation promotes Liverpool’s financial clout
As the size of Liverpool’s delegation to London last week revealed, the masterminds behind the city’s financial and professional services sectors have grand plans for growth. Alistair Houghton reportsmore

Finance partner set to take to the skies for an adrenalin rush
MICHELLE OWEN is a corporate finance partner at the Liverpool office of accountants, Baker Tilly.more

LIVERPOOL is famous for many things. One is undoubtedly the phenomenon of the city’s young ladies defy-ing sub-zero winter temp-eratures on a Friday night to wear the skimpiest of gar-ments in which they will proceed to party hard.
Rest assured, if you do see such creatures out this week, they will almost certainly not be employed by accountants Ernst & Young.more

Mersey Partnership is on a sound financial footing, insists new chairman
The crunch may well offer opportunities for regional inward investment. Tony McDonough reportsmore

A relaxed atmosphere fosters good business
GRAHAM RITCHIE is business development partner at Yorkshire Bank’s Liverpool Financial Solutions Centre.more

Early morning walk sets me up for the day
HUSBAND and wife team Stephen and Michelle Helsby founded architectural visualisation firm, Evolve, in 2006.more

BEST bib and tucker at the Huyton Suite last Friday night, as Knowsley held its sixth annual Economic Forum Enterprise Awards.
Ten gongs were handed out to companies and individuals, including one to TV shopping giant QVC for its “outstanding contribution” to Knowsley.more

Shipping company that handles anything from a pin to an anchor goes from strength to strength
Tony McDonough meets FRANK FOX, managing director of Lombard Shipping and Forwardingmore