Trading Gossip

Sep 12 2007 by Tony McDonough, Liverpool Daily Post

LIVERPOOL’S best-known corporate financier Steve Stuart has been a busy man of late.

As well as brokering corporate finance deals in Liverpool and joining the board of property invest- ment company, Three60, Steve travelled down to the other end of the M62 to knock some heads together.

Corporate financiers Ford Campbell hosted a Pro Manchester debate that considered the assertion that “Manchester profes- sionals are poor ambassad- ors for the North West”.

The group bemoaned the lack of information sharing by professionals across the North West. Steve, below, made his views quite clear.

“Professionals across the North West should put aside their local tribal loyalties and get together more to promote the region as a whole as the best place to do business outside of London,” he growled.

THERE was a great fanfare in April when Vortex Court, a new £5m office development in Wavertree Technology Park, was officially opened.

Developer Northern Trust was particularly pleased with the two large wind turbines which, it said, would help generate electricity for the buildings.

However, when Trading Gossip passed the site earlier this week on what was a fairly breezy day, we noticed one turbine turning painfully slowly while the other remained motionless.

Keep this up and the workers inside the building might just be able to boil a kettle by the end of the week.

THERE was a fair degree of excitement on the Daily Post business desk last week as a large parcel arrived.

Upon opening, a large, earth-filled pot emerged containing a beautiful green bush. Surrounding the bush was a frame in the shape of a squirrel with the promise that if we nurtured, watered and pruned it regularly, a plant in the shape of the bushy-tailed woodland creature would be our reward. But our joy turned to horror the next morning when it emerged the squirrel had disappeared overnight.

We asked Yorkshire Bank, who sent the plant to celebrate its sponsorship of the National Trust’s Outdoor Programme, if they would send us a replacement but they said no.