Culture Year a springboard for great success

Apr 16 2008 by Aaron Boland, Liverpool Daily Post

PHILIP ROONEY, DLA Piper office managing partner, Liverpool:

It's hard to believe the most talked-about year in the history of the region has at last arrived!

Complementing the unrivalled cultural offer, we are seeing the culmination of years of planning in the city's great new physical assets – the Arena and Convention Centre and Liverpool One retail scheme, to name but two of our new “jewels”.

With such an exciting backdrop, it's no surprise business in the region remains as dynamic as ever.

Our business community, longstanding companies and new organisations alike, continues to achieve tremendous results, with an increasing confidence in the competitiveness of our great city on the world stage.

Sharing and applauding our successes is so important in engendering a positive collective spirit which will carry us forward to further success in the highly competitive, and increasingly global, markets in which we all operate.

It's because we're proud of what this region's businesses achieve that DLA Piper is delighted to be sponsoring the Regional Business Awards again. What better way could there be to celebrate this exciting time for our region?

There is much to celebrate in this headline-grabbing year, both in the cultural and business worlds, and DLA Piper is pleased to be playing a key role in both.

So, as we celebrate all the change which has brought us to where we are today, and look forward to what our enterprising businesses will create in the future. We need to remember only one thing – Liverpool remains a vibrant, exciting and creative environment in which to build success.