HEREFORDSHIRE Business Show 2000 is set for take-off following last year's highly successful event at Ross-on-Wye.

In association with The Hereford Times, the millennial year show will take place on July 6 at the Chase Hotel, Ross-on-Wye, from 10am-7pm.

The day is the only opportunity in the business calendar to see the wide range of products and services produced by the region's companies and organisations.

Exhibitors flock in

And exhibitors now travel from as far afield as Bristol, Northampton, Redditch and Builth Wells to join Herefordshire companies ranging from multi-nationals through to small businesses.

Bulmers, REHAU, The Leadership Trust Foundation, BT and Lloyds TSB are just some of more than 100 businesses who have exhibited since the show's re-launch in 1998.

Financial backing

As well as The Hereford Times, Herefordshire Council and the Chamber and Commerce Herefordshire and Worcestershire are also financially backing the event.

Organiser David Pitman, said: "The show has attracted increased financial backing and all of these extra resources are to put to increasing promotion.

"The aim will be to ensure everyone who exhibits or attends has a very worthwhile experience and goes away with a positive feeling and, hopefully, new customers or suppliers."