Retail Repackage Remodel
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Retail Birmingham is a BID - Business Improvement District - with is (stop me if I’m wrong here) kind of a government approved council for businesses in its area, they have a few tax breaks or something and power to spend a bit of cash on things to improve their locale. They’ve got a new website - lovingly and beautifully designed by local dudes 383.
The site itself is smart, but the content doesn’t seem to know what it is - is it for customers (nice maps and guides, event listing) or the BID itself (don’tcha think that huge title might be a little confusing?) ?
For Brum geeks tho’ - the fun is, subscribe to the RSS feed and get news that doesn’t get the ‘huge Jamelia forehead shot’ treatment on the site - including (how the hell do they calculate?) footfall figures for the city centre:
January footfall figures: -5.8% on last years figures
Birmingham City Centre - busiest days in January
Sat 26 Jan - 284,263
Sat 12 Jan - 242,032
Sat 19 Jan - 238,871
Fri 25 Jan - 206,262
Fascinating stuff – and there’s nice jetwash-porn with before and after pics of when Ramora (a local company for local people) deep-cleaned the streets.
This entry was posted on Saturday, February 9th, 2008 at 8:32 am by Jon Bounds and is filed under internet, review. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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