OGH visit is group’s 60th in 12 months

Monday 21st June 2010, 2:30PM BST.

Business Guernsey Group chairman Deputy Robert Sillars, right, talking to OGH Hotel general manager Andrew Chantrell on the group’s 60th business visit in a year. (Picture, 0985995)

A STATES sub-group has just completed its 60th visit to local businesses.

The Business Guernsey Group, part of the Commerce and Employment Department, has reached the milestone in little over a year and did so with a fact-find to the OGH Hotel.

Robert Sillars, chairman of the group, said the meetings had tried to encompass as many sectors of local business as possible and have included trips to companies in finance, hospitality, construction, travel and transport, retail, horticulture and legal firms.

‘The business visits programme is just one part of what the Business Guernsey Group does, but it’s a very important part,’ said Deputy Sillars.