Capitalising on the Yorkshire brand: the importance of social media and relationship building

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The Yorkshire entrepreneurs networking group, Connect Gazelles, held its 2014 Summit yesterday. With the theme, ‘Capitalising on the Yorkshire Brand’, the event brought together some of the region’s most successful entrepreneurs; including:

Welcome to Yorkshire CEO Gary Verity, who brought the Tour de France to Yorkshire
James Lambert OBE, who built one of Yorkshire’s major brands, Richmond Ice Cream, up from 5 employees and sales of £250,000 in 1985 to sales approaching £1 billion and 5,000 employees in 2014.
Plus Connect Gazelles ‘Entrepreneurs in Residence’; John Graham of Go Outdoors, Deirdre Bounds founder of i-to-i and Simon Biltcliffe of Webmart.

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