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Location: Black Country
Date: 20/01/12

Black Country businesses can join the race for the next wave of valuable London 2012 contracts at a high-profile breakfast and networking meeting next week.

 ‘London 2012: You can STILL profit’ will feature a guest appearance by sports broadcaster and journalist Steve Rider, who has covered every Olympics since Moscow 1980 and will give his personal perspective about the business side of the Games.

 The free seminar, hosted by the Black Country Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), will take place at West Bromwich Albion’s Hawthorns stadium on Friday 20 January between 9am and noon.

 Black Country cycling legend and commentator Hugh Porter MBE will also attend as Master of Ceremonies for the morning. 

Attendees will find out how to apply for lucrative contracts to convert the Olympic & Paralympic Games sites, as well as supplying goods and services to companies adapting the facilities for future use. New build on the Olympic Park will include office blocks and several thousand new homes, while the major venues will be converted for ‘legacy’ use.

 Three hundred companies in the West Midlands have won contracts totalling over £500m in value. The event will give local companies an advantage over the competition and a head-start towards winning more work.

 ‘London 2012: You can STILL profit’ will include a hot breakfast and networking lunch thanks to sponsorship from EBC Group and Zaun Fencing.

 The Black Country Local Enterprise Partnership event is being held in association with finditintheblackcountry and supported by the Department of Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) and West Midlands Chambers of Commerce LLP.

 Free places can be booked online at www.finditintheblackcountry.co.uk or by emailing [email protected]

 For more information, please contact Jim Johnston, London 2012 Business Manager, on 0121 503 3299 (direct line) or at [email protected]