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Watch: Insider's Business Briefing - 9th August
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09/08/2024
Alice and Stephen discuss a 37-storey tower in Birmingham, Europe's biggest outdoor products store, and plans for a new bar in Liverpool.
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A 37-storey tower in Birmingham, Europe's biggest outdoor product store, and a new bar
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in Liverpool featuring today's business briefing.
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I'm Stephen Fowle.
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And I'm Anas Bird.
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Well, Stephen, we'll start today's briefing with an update on some plans that we discussed
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last week for a 37-storey residential tower in Birmingham.
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So you may remember Moda is the developer behind that scheme, which will feature more
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than 460 homes, and it forms part of the new Garden Square neighbourhood in Ladywood.
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So Birmingham City Council's planning committee met yesterday to discuss those plans, and
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they signed them off.
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So work can now get underway, and it's expected that more than 400 jobs will be created during
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the construction phase of that development.
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All right.
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So, yeah, really big development there, then, yeah?
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Yeah.
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Well, sticking with the property news, up in Yorkshire, we've got the announcement that
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Go Outdoors is set to open what they're saying is going to be Europe's biggest outdoor product
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store in York later this month.
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So the Go York store is going to open at the Vanguard Shopping Park on the 23rd of August,
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and that will be ahead of the grand opening weekend on the 7th and 8th of September.
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That will be featuring TV's Helen Skelton doing the opening there.
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So, yeah, should be a good one to pop along to.
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The store itself will measure 125,000 square foot, so really huge footprint there.
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It will feature almost 400 brands.
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There'll be 30 trading concessionaries as well, featuring the likes of Yeti, Garmin,
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Adidas, Terex, Stanley.
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The store has created 42 jobs, and that is in addition to a further 28 roles from staff
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who have moved over from the previous Go Outdoors store in York.
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So yeah, really exciting development there.
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Yeah, cool.
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I feel like even if you're not an outdoorsy person, those shops are just so fun to kind
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of walk around.
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Yes, exactly.
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There's so much stuff to look at.
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It really does inspire you to try and take up hiking.
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Yeah.
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Well, sticking on developments, we've got some news from Ark Inspirations.
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So I think following kind of the bounce back of the COVID, there's a lot of businesses,
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hospitality businesses that are looking to expand across the UK.
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Ark is one of those.
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So they're behind the brands Banyan, Box, and Manhattan.
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And in some recent news, they've submitted plans to open a new site within the Lyceum
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building on Bold Street in Liverpool.
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So the bar, it'll be a cocktail bar, and it'll be under the Manhattan brand.
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If you've never been to one of those before, it's kind of a New York-inspired brand.
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It says in the planning statement that it's going to be very glamorous.
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It's obviously going to be in a really beautiful building, which dates back to the 1800s.
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Now, it is Grade II listing, so obviously they are having to take that into consideration,
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but they've said that they're going to sensitively restore the building.
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Now Ark is actually headquartered in Yorkshire.
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So if you read our Yorkshire newsletter, you may have seen some news recently about them
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securing £7 million in funding to support their UK rollout.
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So when that funding was announced, they actually did mention Liverpool as a place for potential
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sites.
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So obviously that's nice to see that that's coming forward.
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They've also flagged London and Cardiff as potential locations, but it sounds like they've
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got lots of other places in the pipeline.
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Yeah, keep an eye out in the town near you.
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Sticking with beer for our last story, our colleague Ben Butler, the South West correspondent,
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has spoken to a Cornish brewery about their launch of a new alcohol-free lager.
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So Firebrand was established in 2012, produces a range of beers and ales with Patchwork Rocket
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Pale, its flagship beer.
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It launched its first alcohol-free Hazy Pale beer last year and has now launched Little
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Wave, its first alcohol-free lager.
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So Head Brewer has spoken to Insider about how the company is going to grow, using the
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alcohol-free beers as a way to grow and expand across the UK outside of its normal Cornish
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heartland.
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You've seen supermarkets now, there's a lot more choice with alcohol-free beers, there's
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more in pubs and things like that.
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So it's a real growth area that they're looking to take advantage of.
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The company employs 12 full-time equivalent staff at the moment and hopefully as they
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expand they're looking to create more jobs.
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Yeah, that definitely is a growth area.
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I feel like even in the past if you'd go to a bar and someone was driving they'd just
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get a soft drink, but now a lot more people are like, oh I'll actually just get an alcohol-free
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version.
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Yeah, it's just a lot more common than it used to be I think.
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Yeah, sure.
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Well if you'd like to read the full interview or find out any more information on any of
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the stories we've discussed today, you can do so on insidermedia.com.
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While you're there you can also subscribe to our newsletters as well as our magazines.
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That's everything from us today.
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Goodbye.
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