Past Events

April 2010

How serendipitous inviting the Chief Executive of Birmingham International Airport to address the Birmingham Business Breakfast Club when no planes were flying! He spoke for 25 minutes with no notes outlining future plans pre 16 April 2010 and covered many other issues. We are all encouraged to spread the word that Birmingham Airport is ours to use and encourage . . . so please do so!

January 2010

Birmingham Business Breakfast Club had Graeme Chaplin Bank of England Agent for the West Midlands as guest speaker at their opening 2010 event. 50 of us sat spellbound as he gave us an insight into our current economic position and his and the Bank's thoughts as to where we are going in the foreseeable future.

December 2009

Our own Ian O'Donnell was the speaker in December - without the help of a wine tasting, he gave us food for thought - posing the very relevant question -"What is stopping you being a success online?" He opened our eyes to the plusses and potential pitfalls of Facebook, Linked in - and amazingly hundreds of other mediums (half of which I'd not heard of ( I am 57!!))

November 2009

Digby Lord Jones of Birmingham was the speaker at Birmingham Business Breakfast Club. A packed room of more than 115 breakfasters heard his thoughts on Inclusivity, the tragic West Midlands skill and education shortfalls and the future of governance in the UK. We were all sent out with the thought that there is much to do - but that we all have a vital role to play in helping to address the education and learning issues in the West Midlands area.

October 2009

The Birmingham Business Breakfast Club welcomed Rita Maclean to a recent breakfast. She gave us an excellent insight into the background of the metal detectorist's sensational discovery of the Anglo Saxon hoard, which had really captured the attention of us Brummies - 40,000 people queuing and viewing the 100 exhibits displayed in a couple of weeks!

September 2009

Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) was our guest speaker at a recent meeting of The Breakfast Club.

He held the audience spellbound for 20 minutes, briefly outlining the RSA's history and its present agendas, including its Academy in Tipton, which I had visited with Matthew on the previous day.

July 2009

At our July meeting we all learnt from Nigel Bromley of RBH what to do to get our marketing working harder for our businesses - and don't we need it - having said which my remaining manufacturer clients are all b(l)ooming - the largest one just took on several super new staff, who had been "let go" elsewhere - so perhaps the seeds of the "greenshoots" are starting to germinate.

June 2009

At a June meeting of the Birmingham Business Breakfast Club, we were treated to an excellent talk by Sue Summers relating to setting up InvestBX with funding from AWM and a short presentation from Michael Bryant of Teamworks Karting, the first company to list on the market.

We were then treated to a trial few laps, which we all thoroughly enjoyed!

May 2009

At our May breakfast, we we welcomed Philip Singleton from Birmingham City Council who with no notes gave an excellent presentation highlighting the key issues in the Big City Plan and showcasing the Library of Birmingham. He was ably assisted by Roulla Xenides from S&X Media who brought along a set of display boards to back the library talk. Neil Maybury shared his thoughts on Birmingham Business Focus's role in provoking debate on key issues in the City and the proposed monorail to the NEC.

April 2009

The Birmingham Business Breakfast Club's April meeting welcomed a very upbeat Marc Reeves - esteemed editor of the Birmingham Post, who gave us a real insight into the difficulties newspapers face in the new media revolution and the manner in which he and his colleagues are rising to the challenge by engaging with the various new platforms.

March 2009

On our first visit to Edgbaston Cricket Club the Birmingham Business Breakfast Club were treated to an eloquent, thought inspiring talk by Geoff Cousins, Managing Director Jaguar UK, who brought along a couple of samples for our delectation.

Jaguar sells Beautiful Fast Cars to set the Heart Racing, but now make "Fast Cars with a Conscience" to compete in today's carbon conscious world.

Geoff told us that with new models in and about to enter the range the company was performing brilliantly, taking market share from its foreign competitors.

February 2009

At our Febraury meeting w welcomed Stuart Lockley, who gave us his for value for money ways of making your marketing budget work better for your business at our February meeting. Without a note in sight, he gave us several "easy to install" "Cunning plans" to make us look more closely at what of our marketing achieves what result, and what could be achieved with a limited budget.