


Free VIP places exclusive to Downtown in Business fundraisers for Great MCR Run 2023
We Love MCR Charity has created a unique package for our friends at Downtown who wish to run Britain’s best 10k and Half Marathon.

New Year, New Beginnnings…
The Lowry Hotel has a number of January promotions to kickstart 2023. Experience a sprinkling of the extraordinary and enter the new year with RE:TREAT.

Mansell Building Solutions sign DIB partnership deal
Greater Manchester construction business, Mansell Building Solutions have been announced as the latest major partner-sponsor of private sector lobby group and business networking club Downtown in Business.

Stay & Dine at First Street
Stay curious and dine in style with First Street Bar & Kitchen and INNSiDE by Melia.

The Downtown Den Podcast. Season Two. Winning Women – Angela Mansell
In the first episode of the second series of the Downtown Den podcast, Frank McKenna speaks to Managing Director of Mansell Building Solutions, Angela Mansell.

Is your business lean enough for 2023?
In the first Ladyboss HR blog of 2023, Victoria asks “Is your business lean enough for 2023?”

Downtown is Twenty – Michael Taylor
First up is a guy who has been engaged with DIB since its launch back in 2003. Michael Taylor, the former editor of Insider magazine, the Downtown in Business Manchester chair (2012-2014), and now the editor of Business Desk in the Northwest and the presenter of the excellent podcast the Northern Spin, offers his opinion on DIB.

DIB host first event of 2023 with Manchester Airport’s Andrew Clarke
DIB were delighted to be joined by Head of Corporate Affairs, Andrew Clarke, for our first event of 2023.

Star studded line-up of speakers for Property & Regeneration conference
The godfather of regeneration Lord Michael Heseltine, and the West Midlands mayor Andy Street head a list of high-profile speakers at this year’s DIB annual Property & Regeneration conference, which takes place on Thursday 9th February, at the Edgbaston Stadium, Birmingham.

Send for the official solicitor!
The law and strikes can be an explosive mix according to Jim. In this week’s blog he relates a lesson from industrial history on a previous Tory government’s attempt to curb union power through the courts.

Let’s have a bit of a boring 2023 – please!
In his first blog of the New Year, Frank McKenna explains why the country needs a dose of ‘boring’ in 2023.