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Buy Yorkshire brings £8 million to the region

The Buy Yorkshire Conference, which was attended by 5,000 delegates and 180 exhibitors, has reported an economic impact of £8million.

Now in its fourth year, the Conference once again brought together independent business people with larger multi-national organisations in a bid to encourage engagement and purchasing opportunities.

The Billion Pound Panel made a return visit to the stage for a third year with the entrepreneurial panel (that have a collective wealth of more than £1 billion) sharing their opinions and thoughts on a variety of subjects from compost (Jonathan Straight plc) to the importance of social responsibility and

A selection of speakers including elite athlete, Danielle Brown MBE; celebrity TV presenter, Janet Street-Porter; President of IBM’s Academy of Technology, Rashik Parmar and CEO of Ella’s Kitchen, Paul Lindley, also appeared at the show, to ensure that there was something for everyone.

The Conference also welcomed back chief executive of Welcome to Yorkshire, Gary Verity; chairman of the LNT Group, Lawrence Tomlinson and chief executive of Straight plc, Jonathan Straight.

Event organiser and founder, Geoff Shepherd comments: “I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who was involved in bringing the Conference together and making it the absolute success that it was. A great deal of hard work, effort and time goes into pulling an event of this magnitude together and I simply couldn’t do it alone.”

“Feedback from speakers, delegates and exhibitors has been overwhelmingly positive and we know that our new feature, Bar Mafia, was a big hit with attendees.

“We know that connections were made and business was done and that is what it’s all about. The Buy Yorkshire Conference meets and exceeds expectations every year and I’m very proud of the profile that it brings to our region, not least in terms of economic impact.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Clare Burnett .