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The organisations and individuals crowned winners at the BIBAs 2023 awards

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Lancashire's top business awards, the Bibas, are back with a bang for 2023

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Fibonacci Day: why November 23 is an important day in maths?

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Chamber of Commerce launches free business helpdesk

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Lancashire chambers of commerce set to lead on plan to improve skills in county

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Lancashire businesses get set with four weeks to go before BIBAs finals

There are just four weeks left to wait for this year’s Be Inspired Business Awards finalists before finding out if they’ve won, as organisers begin final preparations for the awards ceremony.

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Judges hail quality of entries in Lancashire’s BIBAs awards for 2022

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'Biggest celebrity ever' promised for Lancashire business awards ceremony

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Finalists are revealed in the biggest business awards competition in Lancashire

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Blackpool tourism giant becomes strategic partner of chamber of commerce

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Lancashire businesses set out demands to boost essential skills

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Lancashire firms defy economic troubles to enter biggest business awards

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Central Lancashire’s chamber of commerce has got a new patron member

Fylde Coast based British Independent Utilities (BiU), an energy and utility consultancy, has become the latest Patron Members of the North and Western Lancashire Chamber of Commerce.

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Lancashire business groups worried as inflation hits ten year high

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