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Bob Gibbon, Managing Director of the Midlands based National Skills Academy for Manufacturing addressed the CBI Executive Lunch group to reinforce the needs to keep skills in this important sector high on the regions agenda.

The Birmingham Post and Awards sponsors from the business community led by Churchill Vintners and Intercity Mobile Communications, visited AWM's headquarters as guests of Chief Executive John Edwards to present the monthly award for December to GME Springs.

Birmingham's oldest breakfast networking club received great advice from IOD Management Consultant Jean Pousson, and a major financial boost this month when the West Bromwich Building Society announced a sponsorship deal for 2008.

Serving the Customer

Jobs in the vacation and whilst at University are usually students' first experiences of the world of work. Suzie Ashby of Utopia Inns talks about the learning process students go through when entering this real life customer facing industry.

Wesleyan for lawyers

Wesleyan Assurance Society began life in Birmingham in the Summer of 1841, established to help people overcome the financial problems brought on by the Industrial Revolution. Today Wesleyan no longer focuses on the mass market but has developed a niche market approach specialising in tailored financial advice and products to meet the specific needs of professionals - particularly doctors, dentists, teachers and now lawyers.

ICT Awards 2007

Congratulations to all those successful companies whose efforts in the past year were recognized at the ICT Awards hosted by AWM's ICT Cluster. Find out who was at the joint conference, exhibition and awards ceremony-and who took the glittering prizes!

Loretta Fraser, General Manager of Selfridges Birmingham talks about the retail challenges and opportunities she deals with in the Bullring's landmark store, and about her aspirations for herself and the city.

Relationship Marketing

Cadbury experts and the famous Gorilla adverts help the Project construct relationship marketing video material which shows where marketing is going in the new world of social networking.

A Match Made in Heaven? Birmingham City Council's business event in partnership with Birmingham Forward and Arts & Business. Four of the city's best arts sponsorship opportunities come alive from the page and compete for prizes as they are pitched live to a panel of business leaders. See who made the best match.