January 01 2007

The premier event for small businesses in the North West, the Growing Your Own Business & Conference at Manchester Central, formally known as Manchester GMEX, Friday 26 and Saturday 27 January 2007, provides all the expertise entrepreneurs need to help increase their business potential.

Incorporated within The British Franchise Exhibition, Growing Your Own Business features companies and experts that will offer a wide variety of highly valuable advice and services on all aspects of business including financing, strategic planning, sales and marketing, helping to enable businesses to expand much faster, increase their efficiency, and most importantly, improve their profitability.

This event also features a series of free seminars, offering guidance on how to increase profitability and successfully steer your business through its development years. The line up will include successful business leaders who will share the secrets of their success covering the key elements of how to establish and run a successful growing business.

The opening keynote address of the conference will be presented by award winning businesswoman and horticulturalist, Jayne Lawton of Grobox Gardens. Jayne will be providing insight into how she built a successful business around her Grobox gardening product, a innovative gardening product she developed through her work with partially sighted students that brings the joys of gardening to all without the physical demands of a traditional planting arrangement.

Other Inspirational entrepreneur speakers will include: Rachel Elnaugh, one of the original Dragons on BBC 2’s Dragons Den and pioneer behind the original Red Letter Day concept; Rob Crossland, founder of Parasol Ltd; a leading recruitment services provider covering the IT, engineering, medical and educational service sectors and Hannah Reynolds, Managing Director of Mischievous Marketing, an internet marketing company that pioneers forward thinking web strategies for online organisations.

The wide range of exhibitors offering valuable services includes Business Link, the official government service, providing advice and information for new and small businesses, Companies House, the UK government register of UK companies, CTM Communications, an IT services company providing IT consultancy, software, systems integration and outsourcing to SME’s, HM Revenue and Customs, IMServ Invensys, the UK’s largest independent data collector, Invest In St Helens, the Merseyside Borough's inward investment service, Marketsafe, offering online and integrated business solutions and R.B Business Development.

Visitors will also be able to visit the free Business Advice Zone that offers small business owners unique one-to-one advice from key experts as well as invaluable networking opportunities with other business owners.

To find out more information on speakers and exhibitors at Growing Your Own Business visit www.growingyourownbusiness.co.uk

Growing Your Own Business is open from 10:00 each day, closing at 17:00 on Friday 26 January and 16:00 on Saturday 27 January. Callers to the hotline 0870 777 1048 can purchase tickets by credit card for £8.00 each or £7.00 each for two. Admission on the door is £10.00.

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