City-based property developer and investor Howard Group, brand communications agency Method and the Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) have made an investment as sponsors of Question Time, led by premier property publication Estates Gazette. All three businesses have a strategic interest in the regional economic landscape and the opportunities available through the growth of the Cambridge brand.
The networking panel event puts businesses in key growth locations in the spotlight by discussing high-level issues affecting potential economic development.
Howard Group and the LEP will be taking their positions on the panel as the development and growth and enterprise sponsors at the event at The Guildhall, Cambridge. Other sponsors include Savills, PEM and CLS.
Howard Group owns over £100m of commercial property in East Anglia and London and has enhanced its portfolio in the past 12 months to include residential property. Its purchase of the 19 apartment Spillers Mill building in the CB1 Station Quarter, Cambridge’s most lucrative growth area, delivered its five-year target for residential growth in one purchase.
Nicholas Bewes, chief executive officer at Howard Group, said: “Cambridge’s profile as a city focused on growth and development once again provides a highly appropriate environment in which to host 2016’s Question Time event. As a business that has grown exponentially in recent years we are both well placed and have a keen interest in being part of the debate shaping Cambridge’s future as we continue our long-term investment policy in the city and the wider region.”
Neil Darwin, chief executive at Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough LEP, said: “We’re working hard to grow the Cambridge brand nationally and internationally while still retaining the essence of what makes it so ‘Cambridge’: the knowledge, the companies and the innovation. Exploring and sharing ideas with local stakeholders via Question Time will offer us unique insight and enable us to further promote the opportunities to businesses across our local area using a national platform.”
The event will bring together some of the most informed and innovative minds in the region. Sharing knowledge and best practice for the benefit of the wider Cambridge business community is vital in ensuring we move forward together and to build a stronger future.
Kirsten Corrigan, brand and strategy director at Method, said: “With a number of key clients in residential and commercial property, we have a keen interest in growing the Cambridge brand. Having an involvement in Question Time, a concept that is helping leaders and stakeholders to come together and build a better future, is very much aligned with our agenda as a business.”
Cambridge Question Time takes place on 18 November between 8am and 11am at The Guildhall. To register as a guest for free, visit: www.estatesgazette.com/QuestionTime
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