MIDAS Manchester's Inward Investment Agency

🙌 Round-up Stockport Edition! Nexperia welcomed Greater Manchester Mayor, Andy Burnham to their Manchester alongside our Head of Advanced Manufacturing and Low Carbon Rachel Eyre to their site in #Stockport. The visit highlighted Nexperia's focus on the next generation of skilled workers through initiatives to create pathways for young people to access high-quality technical education and employment opportunities. BASF also welcomed the Mayor to their UK HQ in Stockport. BASF does a lot of great work within local schools in disadvantaged areas in STEM and careers, providing opportunities for young individuals who may not have them.

"This partnership marks a UK first in empowering local SMEs to enter the hydrogen production sector. By fostering innovation within the local supply chain, it bridges the gap between stack manufacturing and end users, enabling local development of next generation electrolyser systems for green hydrogen production." - Ben Richardson (Head of Electrolysers and SOFC at Bosch Uk). Through its landmark Manchester Fuel Cell Innovation Centre and its Centre for Enterprise at Manchester Metropolitan University, The Manchester Metropolitan University will work with engineering and technology giant Bosch to help the SME community and industry to understand the opportunity of electrochemical hydrogen technologies. Read more here > https://bit.ly/4g9fA78

🥇 Another amazing achievement for Salford City Council, as it is named 'City of the Year' at the EG Estates Gazette Awards! Salford is a city which sets the bar in creating a greener and healthier city for its residents.

This week, our Business Development Executive in Creative, Digital & Tech, Eloïse Perrot, spoke at the BEYOND Conference 2024 - Creative Cities at MediaCityUK. The panel discussed Manchester's strength as creative city and the bright future it holds in the sector. For more information get in touch with Eloise - [email protected] #MediaCityUK #Creative

🧭 Today some of the MIDAS team went on a tour of Salford Greengate courtesy of Salford City Council! The tour began with Kasia Kaminska and Rob Yates giving the team a look at the available floors in 2 New Bailey as we heard about the background of the area and the exciting future developments. We then proceeded to Greengate Square as we met with Dan Walsh who showed the team around the area, with a focus on the office spaces and residential developments. To round up the tour, Developent Assistant at RENAKER, Moll Evans, gave a tour at Courtland Tower and gave the team an insight on Renaker’s role in the development of the area and future plans.

📰 Friday means it’s time for my Great(er) Manchester News Update On Tuesday we were at the official programme launch of MIPIM 2025 which MIDAS Manchester's Inward Investment Agency Investment Agency is proud to be an official partner of, with more exciting news yet to come in lead up to the event in March.  https://lnkd.in/g7pamPFS The Manchester India Partnership was at the Bangalore Tech Summit as part of a UK trade mission and the UK India Business Council technology conference in New Delhi. Today, we will be with MAG (Airports Group) hosting a High Tea Networking event to celebrate the Greater Manchester India connection. Oldham Council have signed off a major 2,000 home development with Muse as part of the ongoing plans for the regeneration of the area - Invest in Manchester https://lnkd.in/gWfmukeb Yesterday the Business Secretary, Mayor Burnham, and Cllr Craig launches a new programme Made in Greater Manchester sold to the World. It was great to come together with colleagues to talk trade and exports. https://lnkd.in/g6KDjG9T Finally, congratulations are in order for our Head of Business Development in Creative, Digital & Tech, Joseph Beaden, who is on The Shortlist of pro-manchester for business development and sales! 

Day 3 of the UK Trade Mission in India has been an exciting one! 🤝 The Manchester India Partnership hosted a High Tea Networking event to celebrate the Greater Manchester India connection in New Delhi. Presenters Adam Jupp, Director of Communications at MAG (Airports Group), Vikram Singh, Strategic Head for Investment, Department for Business and Trade at British High Commission in India, and Victoria Braddock, Managing Director at Marketing Manchester highlighted the UK-India Partnership, as well as opportunities in Manchester drawing on key strengths across our sectors and world-leading cultural experiences. A massive thank you to our partners MAG (Airports Group), GREAT Trade and Investment & Manchester India Partnership for making the event such a success. #GreaterManchesterIndia #Connections #DelhiHighTea

📰 Friday means it’s time for my Great(er) Manchester News Update On Tuesday we were at the official programme launch of MIPIM 2025 which MIDAS Manchester's Inward Investment Agency Investment Agency is proud to be an official partner of, with more exciting news yet to come in lead up to the event in March.  https://lnkd.in/g7pamPFS The Manchester India Partnership was at the Bangalore Tech Summit as part of a UK trade mission and the UK India Business Council technology conference in New Delhi. Today, we will be with MAG (Airports Group) hosting a High Tea Networking event to celebrate the Greater Manchester India connection. Oldham Council have signed off a major 2,000 home development with Muse as part of the ongoing plans for the regeneration of the area - Invest in Manchester https://lnkd.in/gWfmukeb Yesterday the Business Secretary, Mayor Burnham, and Cllr Craig launches a new programme Made in Greater Manchester sold to the World. It was great to come together with colleagues to talk trade and exports. https://lnkd.in/g6KDjG9T Finally, congratulations are in order for our Head of Business Development in Creative, Digital & Tech, Joseph Beaden, who is on The Shortlist of pro-manchester for business development and sales! 

Midas were delighted to be a promotional partner for this year's FinTech North's Manchester conference. Our fintech community is vital to the continued digitisation and disruption of our Financial Services community. The organisations both challenge and help our incumbent FS community to continue to meet business and customer expectations but also to bring UK fintech to global markets.   Fintech North Chair Chris Sier, Innovate Finance Peter Cunnane and CEO of CFIT Ezechi Britton MBE really set the scene for UK policy and the new Government priorities. Our own, AccessPay founder Anish Kapoor, gave a resounding thumbs up for our collaborative ecosystem and our diverse talent pool and shared his growth journey.   Then our most recent investment project Kevin Redfern from Tripppl gave us an early insight into their transformative stock exchange project that will revolutionise access to finance for tech and ESG founders and provide democratised and localised investment options for local communities. Our recent investor, GFT Technologies took us through the history of Manchester and the (F)industrial Revolution - their FS transformation work and their collaboration with another recent Manchester investor Starling Bank, who were represented by Chloe Williams and Sam Clarke as they gave a deep dive on the engineering future of finance. An insightful session on Manchester’s Fintech scene rounded off our day at the conference, with Leon Wilson (Founder & CEO) at PollenPay. If you are looking to join our Fintech community please get in touch with one of our colleagues below 👇 [email protected] - Deborah Walker [email protected] - Isabelle Southeran [email protected] - Edoardo Barbi

Day 2 of the UK trade mission in India has been busy with the Manchester India Partnership attending the UKIBC technology conference (UK-India Technology Futures) in New Delhi. The Technology Futures Conference demonstrated the depth of tech integration between UK and India. Speakers included Piyush Goyal, Hon’ble Minister of Commerce and Industry, Jitin Prasada, Hon’ble Minister of State of Electronics & IT; Commerce & Industry, Catherine West MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Indo-Pacific), Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, UK, Lindy C. CB OPE, British High Commissioner to India, Sirisha Voruganti, MD & CEO, Lloyds Technology Centre, Youngsuk Chi, Chairman, Elsevier and Director of Corporate Affairs, RELX and Kunal Purohit, President, Next Gen Service Line, Tech Mahindra. 🤝There was plenty of time for meetings and networking that could support the future of our region. A big thank you to our hosts UKIBC for such an engaging event. #UKIBCTechConference #GreaterManchesterIndia #TradeMission #India