Graham, Tom and Ian

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60% of Council business going to local companies

by Lib Dem team on 14 March, 2014

Councillor Iain Roberts visited Marketing Stockport and Stockport Business Awards. Pictured above from left to right: Richard Higginson, Director of Marketing Stockport; Councillor Roberts; Helen White, Director of Marketing Stockport and Ben Poland from Stockport Business Awards

I was very pleased to open Stockport Council’s 8th annual “Meet the Buyer” event on Thursday.

In 2012/13 60% of goods and services procured by the Council and its related organisations like Solutions SK and Stockport Homes were from Stockport companies – a total of £71 million spent locally.

At this year’s Meet the Buyer over 200 local companies met directly with not just the Council but also large private companies like software developer CDL and engineering firm MAN Diesel.

The idea of Meet the Buyer is that small companies can set up interviews to pitch their services, and attend seminars to help them understand how to win business with the public sector. Over 400 appointments were booked for this year’s event and hopefully a good deal of business will result.

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