The High Growth Centre at Thornton Science Park officially opened on June 19th.  The new offices and labs looked brilliant.  For more information click here

I will be joining Ruth Sanderson and Rachel Flanagan at Sci-Tech Daresbury on Thursday 9th July for a seminar on How to Create Brand Value: Inside and Out.   Event summary   AstraZeneca, Bentley Motors and Unilever all have a brand value beyond the products they create. This interactive half day seminar will help you […]

Having successfully launched the Science and Manufacturing Network on March 18th at an event at Liverpool John Lennon Airport, the founding members are looking to expand the network around the Northwest region.   Although primarily a Halton Chamber of Commerce initiative, the Chairman (Peter Cook) and Chief Executive (Paula Cain) are looking to engage the […]

I will be holding a seminar on 13th May 2015 at the High Growth Centre, Thornton Science Park in Chester.   How to Communicate Value to Your Customers   It is important to market the benefits of your product or service not the features. Customer value propositions help you do that.They are an assessment of your […]

I will be holding a workshop for the Royal Society of Chemistry on 27th May 2015 at the Consultancy Group Meeting and AGM in London.   Event summary   A meeting of the Consultancy Group including the 24th Annual General Meeting will be held on Wednesday May 27th 2015. The venue will be the Royal […]

I went to the Greet, Eat and Meet event at St Asaph this morning. There was an excellent presentation by Solvings. Never thought about storing data on Drop Box before today but speaking to Dr. Les Pritchard afterwards enlightened me. Drop Box stores files outside the European Economic Area which means the data has been […]

Although the concept of left and right brain thinkers may not be completely factual and to be honest I’m fairly convinced that I think with both sides of my brain, I’ve always thought of myself as a left brain thinker.   Being a scientist, I believe I am more logical, analytical and objective. I admire right brain […]

Halton Chamber of Commerce is launching a new network specifically aimed at businesses in the science and manufacturing sector.   The network, which has been set up in conjunction with some of Halton’s key science and manufacturing firms, aims to provide bespoke support to new and emerging companies as well as existing businesses within the […]

I went to a Growth Accelerator training event in Manchester yesterday “Telesales for the Terrified”. One statistic that stuck in my head was that it takes on average of between 5 and 12 “touch points” (customer contacts) for a prospect to become a customer. Apparently most businesses stop at 4.   I also came across […]

At the Chemicals Northwest Breakfast Networking event GlaxoSmithKline gave an update to the new plant being built in Ulverston, South West Cumbria.   The building of the £350 million bio-pharmaceutical plant was announced in March 2012. Patent box and falling corporate tax contributed to the decision to build in the UK – GSK’s first new […]