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February 2007 News Archive

All of the News Articles published this month are listed below. Click on a headline to view the full article.

NABMA to meet Margaret Hodge

The next APPG for Markets is scheduled for the 13th March when DTi Minister Margaret Hodge, pictured above will be speaking. Ann Coffey M.P, the secretary of the APPG, is very keen to ensure that there is a focus on issues falling within Margaret' Read More

Performance Levels

NABMA has received a request for assistance from Colin Hill at Burnley based around performance levels at U.K markets in the first few weeks of 2007. Colin indicates that Burnley are experiencing the sharpest decline in trader fall off and gener Read More

Leek takes Top Award

The Staffordshire Moorlands entry for the Leek Festival of Fine Foods was the surprise winner of the Best Specialty Market category in the Market of the Year 2007 competition. Highly Commended in this section were Manchester Christmas Market, Bra Read More

Stoke-on-Trent Markets link with Blac ...

Rob Nixon, Head of Markets at Stoke has advised that Christmas 2006 saw the first of a number of initiatives by Stoke-on-Trent City Council aimed at improving its markets. As a result, Tunstall Market, a 60 stall refurbished Victorian market (gra Read More

Lord Lee urges support for Markets APPG

Lord Lee of Trafford, pictured being welcomed by NABMA President Elect Councillor J Gareth Jones, gave the keynote presentation to Nabma’s Showcasing Markets seminar at Birmingham highlighting his own involvement in the markets industry and commen Read More

Showcasing Markets – A NABMA Success

NABMA is delighted at the feedback following the Showcasing Markets Seminar held on Wednesday at the Council House, Birmingham. Some 120 delegates, speakers and exhibitors assembled to network and receive presentations from a range of speakers cov Read More