STEVE Park talks business in his latest column.

“This month has seen the start of the International Festival of Business (IFB) which is taking place in and around Liverpool.

Warrington & Co. was one of the first to sign up to participate in IFB when it was announced early last year and last week we took part in and were a key sponsor of ‘Logistics 2020’ at PlaceExpo.

This was a great high profile event to help remind the audience of Warrington’s key strengths in this sector. Next week also sees Warrington & Co. hosting ’Manufacturing Growth’ at the IFB on June 26, a manufacturing seminar at PlaceExpo.

Tickets to attend this event are free and are available on the placenorthwest.com website. It would be great to see some of you there.

“A key part of Warrington’s growth agenda is raising the profile of the borough as a place in which to do business locally, regionally and nationally.

Warrington has a great story to tell and is bucking the economic trend; up there with the most economically powerful cities in the UK.

Success breeds success as they say and Warrington & Co. is keen to make sure that the word is out there.

Over the past 12 months Warrington & Co. has worked hard to do this with considerable success, and will continue to do so.

“For example on June 25 Warrington is proudly hosting the inaugural Nuclear UK conference.

This is a major event in the IFB and nuclear industry calendar and is taking place here in Warrington, as the birthplace and home of the nuclear industry in the UK.

More people work in the nuclear industry here in Warrington than anywhere else in the country; some 4,500 in all. Nuclear UK will see many of the world’s top nuclear business leaders and scientists converge on Warrington.

This will be great profiling for the town and I’m hoping that the event will become a regular annual fixture on the nuclear conference calendar.”