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New business helping the creative sectors

Creative businesses are being offered the chance to gather more business opportunities from a new company in the region.

Represent, a “unique new venture”, is aimed at the creative community, offering to provide strategic and tactical business development for those companies that do not have the infrastructure or time to do it themselves.

Steven Porthouse, founder of Represent, said: “Even in the best of times, keeping up a flow of new business opportunities is crucial to the success of any growing business, but in these difficult times, it can be central to a firm’s very survival.

“A lot of firms would love to find and bring in more business than they currently do, but the everyday demands of running to company takes up too much time to enable them to do so.”

The company’s aim is to take the onus away from the creative industry, and putting it back to Steven, who has twenty years’ experience at director level for national and international companies.

Represent say they are the only service of this kind within the North East, and this gives them an advantage, which can be passed on to help the creative industry increase it’s competitiveness.

Steven added: “Despite the recession, there are still significant opportunities out there for the region’s commercial creative industries, especially with the continuing trend towards digital media.

“Setting up Represent in this climate clearly demonstrates the confidence we have that we will be able to help many firms achieve their growth ambitions.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .