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Article: Helping local business expand.
- Article from:
- The Star (Sheffield) (Sheffield, England)
- Article date:
- July 15, 2008
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WHAT's the one thing that niggles you and what would enable you to operate more effectively?
Two questions that are always spring first to Alan Lyons' lips when he meets anyone running business in Sheffield.
It's the Creative Sheffield investor development manager's job to look after local companies - and that most emphatically doesn't mean waiting for someone to pick up the telephone and dial the city development company's number.
Alan Lyons' job is to build relationships with indigenous businesses which help Creative Sheffield to anticipate their needs and, in some cases, help them to raise their sights.
"We want to become their ...