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Future of Manchester marketing to be revealed on Friday
Bodies including Marketing Manchester and inward investment agency Midas will find out on Friday whether they’ll be restructured as part of public sector funding cuts.
Members of the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities (AGMA), which is made up of the city’s 10 local authorities, will discuss how they should respond to the loss of £4m funding at the end of the week.
The closure of the North West Development Agency next year has already impacted upon Vision+Media and now Midas and New Economy are likely to see their budgets reduced by half.
Hundreds of jobs are likely to be at risk.
Under the plans, the 6 organisations affected will come together as a trio of centres of excellence.
Marketing Manchester and Visit Manchester will merge and run the city’s tourism, marketing and communications strategies.
New Economy will take the lead on employment, research and skills.
Midas will join with Business Support Solutions and Skills Solutions to work on growth and investment.
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Have you been in the visit manchester store in Picaddilly?
The store looks great and the staff are helpful but there is no product in there, the shelves in the window are empty. Get some Coronation Street T-Shirts in there or something, anything that tourists to Manchester will want to take home with them. If they were a bit more commercial they could maybe generate some extra income.