Liverpool City Region: IFB 2016 to be more concentrated says Mayor

LIVERPOOL will scale back the length of the International Festival for Business next time, after weighing up the success of the 50-day event which finished on July 22.

In an honest assessment, Mayor Joe Anderson said the next festival, due to be hosted by the city in 2016, will probably last four weeks, conceding that a decision to commit a week to different sectors had made the event too long.

"This was a leap of faith, we had no template to work from and now we have," he told Thebusinessdesk.com. "We'll shor... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...