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Business Quarter:
Winter 11: issue Eleven
There's a bit of a departure this issue, as we thought the ongoing uncertainty among many small businesses about whether and how they can access finance was worth us doing an investigation of our own. Hence our special feature this month on access to finance. Speaking to bankers, private equity people, business advisers and one or two businesses themselves, we hope we have been able to provide a rounded and accurate picture of the true state of the funding environment right at the end of 2011.
We also take a look at the future of manufacturing in Leeds. It was a subject Marketing Leeds took up in a special conference in November. We extend it a bit more by seeing how Communisis, once one of the largest printers in the UK, now one of the UK's largest "marketing service providers", has had to adapt to change.
Two of our entrepreneurs this month have a background in motor racing. Mark Nelson raced in Moto GP up until the mid-1990s, and still has many connections with the sport in his current businesses. Philip Burgan took time off at the end of that decade to have a go at being a motor rally driver. He says a couple of years of that was enough to sate his appetite. But the experience must have done something for both men, because they have gone on to be serial entrepreneurs.
Our third entrepreneur, Paul Rose, comes fresh from his success at this year's Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards, which recognised his achievement in building up Rixonway Kitchens. He makes what he does sound all so simple. I am sure it's not.We also look at what is to become now of St James Securities, one of Yorkshire's best-known property development companies, now that it has dropped its trans-Pennine joint venture with CTP, a similarly successful developer in Manchester.
And we consider Physiomed, a 650-strong network of physiotherapists which has been growing organically over the past few years to be a real fighting force in occupational health. Our business lunch is with Adeeba Malik, a former board director of Yorkshire Forward who still believes passionately in social integration being the key to social economic development.
And don't miss either Leeds College of Building principal Ian Billyard's plea to give young people a better start in life through construction. With youth unemployment figures currently reaching record highs, it is an important message. And as you can see, even Nick Clegg has been listening.
We welcome your views and comments, and we are also delighted to receive your suggestions for personalities we might profiling within these pages, so do please keep the comments coming in, by email, to peterb@bq-magazine.co.uk
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Peter Baber
