As a man, I’m not supposed to be able to multi-task. The art of doing two things at once is a skill that only the fairer sex can master, or so we’re lead to believe.
For years men have had to put up with the constant remarks and ridicule from our female friends on our apparent [...]

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As the nation tuned in to watch England play Slovenia in the last group qualifier of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the Headline Communications team got behind ‘the boys’ by hosting its own World Cup party. 
Blissfully unaware of the fate that was to befall England in the knock-out stages of the tournament, more [...]

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Imagine you’re on the train home from work one evening and sitting opposite you are two people embroiled in a lengthy conversation about a recently published book they are both enjoying. You try not to listen but can’t help overhearing their enthusiastic comments about characters and plot lines. Out of curiosity, you glance at the [...]

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A lunch for Birmingham’s MIPIM contingent at the Restaurant Mandala on the beach was oversubscribed.
CBRE’s Ashley Hancox emerged from a ten hour “power nap” especially – he went to his hotel on Wednesday night for 40 winks and failed to wake up until Thursday morning. Must be the Lee Evans-look-alike’s new job, as regional head [...]

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My day started on a serious note, with a heavyweight European Investment Briefing from the boys at CB Richard Ellis.
The very polished Nick Axford, head of the firm’s EMEA research team, said there is cause for optimism, as the investment market is picking up.
Apparently, retail property is being highly sought after across Europe, with shopping [...]

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The plane to Nice yesterday morning was packed with lots of male, middle-aged men. For a minute I thought I was on the wrong flight:  a try-before-you-buy timeshare trip, or a Saga golfing holiday charter perhaps.
But no, as Gary Taylor of Argent helpfully pointed out, here on BMI Baby Flight WW6529 was the great and good [...]

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I haven’t even packed for MIPIM yet but I’ve already had a few missives from various members of the advance party.
Mike Loftus, of Locate in Birmingham, has emailed me to say he has lost his pants. He means ‘pants’ in the European – rather than the American – sense, which is serious, because it means [...]

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Last week’s announcement that Marketing Birmingham had appointed Leeds-based PR agency Hatch Communications to deliver a campaign for its ‘visitbirmingham.com’ marketing initiative was met with bewilderment from Brum’s PR and marketing fraternity.
Marketing Birmingham, which is charged with promoting the city as a visitor destination, hired Hatch to carry out a 12-month campaign to maximise its [...]

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As the recession continues to ravage the fortunes of businesses everywhere, libel actions are becoming a worryingly common occurrence.

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The holiday season is well and truly upon us and it seems that most of Birmingham’s residents have either headed off to sunnier climes or jumped on the ‘staycation’ bandwagon to enjoy the delights of the city, which they’re forced to overlook whilst busily nine-to-fiving (or nine-to-some-time-after-eighting as the case may be for some).

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