United Leeds Endeavours Reacts to the Monaco Grand Prix

United Leeds Endeavours were glued to their screens on Saturday as Mark Webber won the Monaco Grand Prix.

Australian Mark Webber won for Red Bull for the second time in three years, this year he won in 1:46:06.557. Webber shrugged off his image for poor starts by controlling from the beginning, his initial lead was of two seconds which is believed to be a career best. United Leeds Endeavours were surprised to hear that Webber was then able to retain his lead throughout. The top six stayed fairly close together in a particularly exciting race, which was consistently threatened by rainfall.

McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton was positioned in third place in the early laps but he lapsed on strategy and lost out to Ferrari’s Alonso and Sebastian Vettel for Red Bull. Another British driver, Jensen Button also had a difficult race with a poor start, he then eventually had to retire after a dangerous spin. The result of Monaco moves Alonso into the lead of the world championship, as he is three points ahead of both Vettel and Webber. Hamilton is in fourth place but with significantly less points than the leaders. He is thirteen points behind Alonso, meaning he’ll need to place highly in all the remaining races to move up.

United Leeds Endeavours was impressed to hear that Mark Webber’s victory makes this Formula One season the first in history to feature six different winners in the first six races. This shows the high quality of drivers and teams that are currently competing.

A spokesperson from United Leeds Endeavours commented that, “With the top three drivers being within 3 points from each other this season of Formula One is set to be more exciting than ever. We’re intrigued to see if Alonso can keep his top spot despite the tough competition he is facing from every team.” 

He continued, “We cannot wait to see what happens at the Canadian Grand Prix during the 8th to the 10th June!”

United Leeds Endeavours is a marketing and sales company with offices around the UK.

United Leeds Endeavours Pleased By Flight Links Between Leeds and London

United Leeds Endeavours, a direct marketing and sales firm in Leeds, have heard that flights between Leeds Bradford Airport and Heathrow are to be restored.

Following the takeover of BMI aircraft and landing slots by British Airways plans are in motion to restore direct flights between Leeds Bradford Airport and the capital. The Harrogate Chamber of Trade and Commerce have been lobbying for a restoration of the scheduled service between Leeds Bradford Airport and Heathrow ever since BMI withdrew the service in 2009. United Leeds Endeavours feels that the links between London and Leeds Bradford Airport are extremely important to businesses in Yorkshire as they need to be able to travel between to London for meetings or office visits. Although there is a good train service from Leeds to London the flight time of under an hour is preferable.

From Kings Cross Station, where East Coast trains from Bradford and Leeds arrive, connections to Heathrow from Central London can often take up to an hour. This means that many people wishing to catch an international flight will find it much easier if they can fly directly to Heathrow and then just catch another plane abroad. United Leeds Endeavours feels that this could also help encourage foreign visitors and investors to visit more tourist attractions and businesses across Yorkshire. The restored flights will also be useful for the local population of the area serviced by Leeds Bradford Airport.

A manager at United Leeds Endeavours commented, “The restoration of direct Leeds Bradford to Heathrow flights can only be beneficial to the business community in Yorkshire as people will be able to travel to the financial capital more quickly and efficiently. We can only hope that other smaller airports across the country also gain this great business advantage!”

United Leeds Endeavours is a marketing and sales company with offices around the UK and Spain. Their mission is to provide world class marketing service driven by results for our clients and excellent service for our customers.

United Leeds Endeavours Quarterly Review

Direct marketing and sales company United Leeds Endeavours assesses the first quarter of 2012 and looks to the rest of the year.

Successful direct sales and marketing company United Leeds Endeavours has started 2012 as they mean to go on. The company looks back over the last 3 months at their successes.

Since January 2012 United Leeds Endeavours has started working with two new major clients in the entertainment industry. The clients had set United Leeds Endeavours a target of increasing their customer-base by 20 and 15 per cent respectively and this challenge was met with relish.

Head of PR Oliver Johnson said, “The reason that our clients outsource to us is because they want a cost effective solution with fantastic results. Keeping an in-house sales team can be incredibly expensive and they simply can’t get the volume of new customers that we can achieve. They set us some targets for 2012 and after our review this month we’ve smashed them!”

United Leeds Endeavours pride themselves on being an incredibly adaptable company and this first quarter has showed their willingness to take on new challenges. “The entertainment industry was a new field for us, we’ve worked on a number of campaigns for clients in the communications industry and in the charitable sector. However, because of the solid base, and the innovative approach that we take to all of our campaigns we were able to work closely with their campaign team to come up with something unique and appropriate for them.”

What is on the cards for United Leeds Endeavours? “Through the rest of this year we want to continue to build fantastic relationships with our clients, to continue to smash the sales targets that they set us and finally to take on another major new client. We have a couple of options on the table and we’re incredibly excited about the potential that all the clients have. It’s going to be a case of us working hard over the next few months, getting great results for our existing clients to impress new ones, and working closely to come up with a fantastic solution to their needs. 2012 is going to be a big year for us!”

United Leeds Endeavours Expresses Confidence in New Enterprise Zone

United Leeds Endeavours was pleased to learn that a new business enterprise zone has officially opened for business in Leeds.

The Aire Valley Leeds Enterprise Zone was launched at the beginning of the week by Leeds City Region LEP in partnership with Leeds City Council. Based along the route of the East Leeds Link Road, the 142 hectare site is designed to be an area where businesses can settle with huge incentives. United Leeds Endeavours, a direct marketing and sales company based in the city centre, understands that analysts predict that the zone will create an additional £550m of activity in the area by 2025 and create up to 7,000 jobs.

What is a Enterprise Zone? Leader of Leeds City Council, Keith Wakefield, explains. “The enterprise zone will provide a focus for businesses and a powerful incentive for them to invest in the region.” United Leeds Endeavours learnt that the huge area already has planning permission for a wide-range of activity, including large-scale manufacturing, grade A office space and distribution. The incentives include reduced business rates worth up to £275,000 over five years, a business support programme and fast track planning permission.

Development director David Wells said that the area is ideally placed with “excellent transport links and a close proximity to the M1 and Leeds City Centre…[it] will provide an ideal location for companies in healthcare, low carbon manufacturing, renewable energy, waste management, logistics and distribution.”

A spokesperson for United Leeds Endeavours said that the company believes that this is just the next step towards Leeds becoming the premier business region in the North of England. “We have a huge technology funding expo going on in the next couple of months and now the enterprise zone. Businesses have got every reason to pick Leeds as their home of choice with these fantastic incentives. We’re hopeful that this is the beginning of a new era of huge success for the region.”

United Leeds Endeavours Excited by Leeds Funding Expo

A new funding expo will make £2.bn in investment available to Yorkshire businesses. United Leeds Endeavours investigates the opportunity.

Held at the Royal Armouries in Leeds on 21st September 2012 the first ever investor pitch expo is an incredible opportunity for Leeds-based manufacturing, technology and engineering businesses to gain funds. United Leeds Endeavours understands that the event is targeted at businesses which already have an annual turnover of £5m or over.

This event is the first of its kind in the north of England and United Leeds Endeavours feels that it will be a huge success as 50 venture and development capital firms and 100 business angel investors are already committed to the event. They bring with them around £2bn of investment which the direct sales and marketing firm feels will make a huge difference in the region.

The expo works by having 50 distribution, engineering and technology firms exhibiting at the event and each will seek a minimum £500,000 investment. A spokesperson for United Leeds Endeavours said, "We're talking serious investment here, we've continually championed small businesses in this area but to really kick start the economy, the medium sized businesses need to have their opportunity. They're already established, working well and they have the potential to expand and help increase the manufacturing output that has really failed in the UK through the economic downturn."

Leeds-based entrepreneur Martin Penny, who founded hair care brand ghd is backing the event. He said, "I think this is a great opportunity for businesses who are finding it increasingly difficult to secure traditional bank funding to explore other avenues of investment." He continued, "There are many solid well performing businesses whose growth is being hampered by the UK banks' current intransigent attitude towards lending. Not only are the individual businesses suffering but this is having a knock on effect on the economy as a whole."

The spokesperson for United Leeds Endeavours concluded, "It's a clever but simple idea, put a whole bunch of companies looking for investment into a room with a whole bunch of investors looking for a great opportunity. We're delighted that this kind of thing is finally happening outside of London. We're confident it's going to be a huge boost for Yorkshire."

United Leeds Endeavours is a direct marketing company specialising in outsourced sales for the entertainment and communications industries.