Well Met are Downtown Leeds' Business of the Month for September 2017. For 10 years, Well Met has been an important part of the Leeds conferencing landscape. Using the internationally renowned spaces and facilities at Leeds Beckett University, the aim was to set up a slick and competitive hospitality service to generate revenue for the institution.…
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The Secretary of State for Transport, Chris Grayling, will meet with fifty business leaders in Leeds this afternoon. The meeting comes on the back of the Transport Summit organised by Downtown in Business last month. Grayling will discuss Crossrail North, the Northern Powerhouse, and wider strategic transport issues with Downtown chief executive Frank McKenna. Mr […]
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Last week Downtown in Business worked with our partners VSI to host a Global Sports Leadership Summit at Salford University. The Summit brought together political and business leaders, alongside personalities from the world of sport, among them Olympic champions Beth Tweddle and Diane Modahl. Throughout the day, contributors such as Gary Cooke, the former chief […]
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NO ENEMIES TO THE LEFT. Jeremy Corbyn does not take easily to adulation. This weekend he would probably prefer to be tending his allotment than hearing “Oh! Jeremy Corbyn”, ringing out from the Brighton conference centre. But Labour’s surprisingly good performance (they failed to win for the third time by the way) in June’s General […]
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