In Brief:
BUSINESS advice company Insight with Passion has launched a permanent base in Huddersfield.
Kate Hardcastle and Richard Gomersall have opened the location at the Huddersfield Media centre.
Established in 2009 with two bases in Yorkshire and Warrington, the firm secured its first client in Australia last year.
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SIMPLY Bows and Chair Covers has been selected to dress the VIP tent at the forthcoming Great Yorkshire Show.
The account win by the Harrogate-based business follows work for Ladies Day at Wetherby racecourse.
The business, run by Alexandra Stead, is now also working with the events team at the Cairn Hotel in Harrogate to dress a number of different events.
Simply Bows and Chair Covers is a franchised business and is on target to open 30 franchises by 2013.
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A group of Hull businesses visited Turkey to explore potential trade opportunities.
The visit, which took in the cities of Izmir and Istanbul, was organised by Good Travel Management and the Hull & Humber Chamber of Commerce.
The trip included a programme of networking events and business meetings with members of the Turkish British Chamber of Commerce.
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A DESIGN and print agency in Bradford which has grown from a bedroom operation into a business employing five people has benefited from guidance from Bradford Council’s enterprise service.
Hashim Designs in Heaton has recruited an extra graphic designer to cope with its growing workload.
It follows a series of meetings with an enterprise coach from the Council’s Kickstart scheme, which has helped thousands of similar small businesses and start-ups across the Bradford district over the past six years.
Kickstart enterprise coach Zahra Niazi gave business founder Kashif Qureshi advice on making staff members’ roles and responsibilities more defined to improve efficiency.
