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Duke of Westminster wins top honour for Liverpool One
The 6th Duke of Westminster and Princes Foods were the big winners at the Daily Post’s celebration of business success in Merseyside and Cheshire. The Duke of Westminster won the top prestigious honour at the Daily Post’s Regional Business Awards on the 16th of July 2008.
Duke of Westminster - DLA Piper Business Person of the Year
The Duke, Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, was named the DLA Piper Business Person of the Year for his company Grosvenor’s investment in and development of Liverpool One, the £1bn retail and leisure complex which opened its first phase in May 2008 and has already changed the face of Liverpool city centre.
Other winners included Liverpool’s Princes Foods, Home Bargains owner TJ Morris and Runcorn manufacturer Ventcroft.
The Duke was unable to attend last night’s ceremony, as he was abroad. But he told the Daily Post he was proud of how Liverpool One had helped shape the regeneration of the city centre.
The Duke of Westminster said: “Looking at it from a personal perspective, over all these years that I've been involved in development, whether it be here or overseas, it's the one scheme that I’m particularly proud of. It's not because it’s next to my home in Cheshire, it's because I believe it has regenerated the city and given the city new hope. It has given the city a vision of the future which I think probably five or seven years ago it didn't have.”
The Duke said the scale of Grosvenor’s investment in Liverpool showed the depth of its commitment to the prosperity of the city.
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