Lancashire Business View launches issue 129

The latest edition of Lancashire Business View was officially launched during an impressive event at Brysdales in Chorley.

Seated within the £350,000 Effi Centre - a fully functioning automated storage facility used to demonstrate what the Drumhead Road business can help others to create - about 65 attendees heard all about what is in store for readers of issue 129.

Lancashire Business View chairman Richard Slater opened the event with a short interview with Elizabeth Porter, managing director of hosts Brysdales, followed by a host of other speakers who had either featured in the magazine or supported it.

These included:

• From the family business feature - Frazer Hatch (James E Hatch & Son), Hannah Booth, (The Moorings Bakery) and Ben Ritherdon (Ritherdon & Co)
• Talking about the Hot 100 - Dean Rodgers (PM+M), Sarah Hall (Blackpool and the Fylde College, on behalf of Lancashire & Cumbria Institute of Technology), Victoria Bromily (Harrison Drury), Gary Alker (Prolight Concepts) and Richard Campbell (LCM Environmental)
• Seriun's Mark Edwards talked about how AI can support businesses.
• Anna King, of Rosebud, talked about 40 years of supporting and enabling businesses in Lancashire to grow.

Richard Slater said: "We have launched each edition of Lancashire Business View in this way for some time now and it is always a very special event.

"It gives us an opportunity to bring the magazine to life and to showcase some of the incredible stories featuring businesses across Lancashire.

"But not only that, it allows people to make new connections and to start conversations that can lead to new business deals, growth or employment, which is always great to see."