Business Background: Advantage West Midlands : Awm Still has Plenty to Do

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Since it was set up in 1999 as part of the Government's revamping of the regional development agencies, Advantage West Midlands has had its critics - some of them bordering on the vitriolic.

The fact that its inaugural chief executive preferred to live in Scotland did not help the new agency to live up to its corporate image as a dynamic organisation with the skills and clout to drag the West Midland economy into the 21st century.

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Business Background: Advantage West Midlands : Awm Still has Plenty to Do

Things have improved since the current chief executive, John Edwards, and his chairman, Nick Paul, a man with significant manufacturing experience, took the helm of the stricken ship.

But AWM still has its critics and, as Mr Edwards accepts, still a lot to do to help the region to compete in an increasingly competitive and ever more glo...

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