Bra-vo Madonna - Business Gossip

May 28 2008 Liverpool Daily Post

ULTIMO lingerie tycoon Michelle Mone provided a glamorous finale to the Mecworking Week 2008, a week-long series of business events organised by St Helens Chamber.

The highlight of the week was An Audience with Michelle Mone, held at Colours Restaurant, in St Helens.

Michelle, below, told how she rose from delivering newspapers in the east end of Glasgow to become a successful entrepreneur, enjoying the company of the likes of Bill Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev.

Guests were treated to a glimpse of Michelle’s world when her lunch was interrupted by a phone call from pop legend Madonna’s PA, asking if she could supply her with a backless bra for the dress she planned to wear at the Cannes Film festival.

A few phone calls later, we were assured someone was winging their way to the airport with the prized possession.

LOTS of air kissing on the 14th floor of Liverpool’s Plaza building this week, as the team of what was known as Factory Communications joined their new colleagues at Paver Smith.

Factory, started by local media “royalty” Jon Brown and Jane Wolstenholme, has been swallowed up by Dougal Paver’s PR empire.

Every Friday, a box of bacon butties are delivered to ravenous Paver underlings but that may soon stop.

Joining from Factory is ex Daily Post hackette Jane Woodhead, a fitness fanatic. Could be muesli from now on.

THE free gifts we get sent through the post, here, to promote this, that or the other, get ever more bizarre.

Latest offering from the Twilight Zone inhabited by corporate marketing types comes to us courtesy of the Staybridge Hotel chain.

Staybridge is opening its first UK outlet on Liverpool’s waterfront and it specialises in offering “home from home” for the extended-stay business guests.

To hammer home the concept, the firm this week had a large thin rectangular box delivered to us.

What emerged turned out to be a doormat. Stuff we can eat in future guys, please.