Champagne reception celebrates first birthday of TheBusinessDesk.com
MORE than 100 of the region’s business leaders joined TheBusinessDesk.com to help celebrate its first anniversary.
Editor Marc Reeves welcomed readers, advertisers and colleagues to a champagne reception at luxury store Harvey Nichols, in Birmingham’s Mailbox, to mark the first 12 months of publishing in the West Midlands.
The site’s daily diet of up-to-the-minute business news and intelligence has become an integral part of the business landscape in the West Midlands, and now has more than 12,000 registered users.
Since its launch on February 1, 2010, the site has added new channels dedicated to coverage of the manufacturing and media sectors , as well as a comprehensive and constantly updated shares and markets service.
And this week, it was revealed that the site has been shortlisted in the Midlands Media Awards to be held next month. Editor Marc Reeves and deputy editor Duncan Tift have been shortlisted in the business journalist category while Mr Reeves and business correspondent Tamlyn Jones are nominated for the online journalist award.
Mr Reeves said: “It’s certainly been a hectic year for business in the region, giving us plenty to get our teeth into. We’ve already covered two budgets, a general election and the Comprehensive Spending Review, as well as all the minutiae of what makes businesses tick right across the region.”
The service sends daily and weekly email news summaries to its 12,000 subscribers, and the website is visited by thousands of readers daily.
Mr Reeves said: “Our growth has been phenomenal. Next month, we estimate that almost a quarter of a million emails will be delivered to our readers.
“We’ve had tremendous support from our advertisers, who all value the size and nature of our audience, which is made up of senior decision-makers across all industry sectors.”
Finance Birmingham chief executive Sue Summers said: “Keeping up-to-date with the latest business news in today’s workplace can be difficult so receiving an email that pulls together everything you need is invaluable. Finance Birmingham congratulates TheBusinessDesk.com on its first birthday and all the best for the future.”
Neil Rami, chief executive of Marketing Birmingham, the city’s strategic marketing partnership, said: “TheBusinessDesk.com is an invaluable resource for the region’s business community, providing latest news and in-depth analysis, it has become essential reading for those keen to understand what is happening in the West Midlands.”
Property developer and leading West Midlands business figure Paul Bassi said: “For the local businessman you have replaced all other business news sources, and provide a very informative daily alert.”
