All Things Business - 100th Edition
One hundred exciting reasons to celebrate local businesses
From the first of its 100 editions, All Things Business Northamptonshire has grown into a publication that provides businesses across the county with the platform they need. It’s also grown into the team behind Northamptonshire’s most prestigious business awards ceremony; education awards in the county and in Milton Keynes; and a successful podcast. Here, we take a look back at how All Things Business Northamptonshire reached its 100th Birthday.
The publication T e fi rst edition of All T ings Business Northamptonshire landed on desks of key business owners and decision makers across the county in January 2017. The editorial team of Ben Thomas and Dan Harding,
complemented by Chris Burton’s creative and intelligent eye, and supported by designer Alex Tite, came up with a plan and a design that is little changed – if possibly a little more refi ned – in 2025. All Things Business has always been about celebrating the
business community in Northamptonshire, showcasing the fantastic work that goes on here and celebrating the achievements of countless companies from a wide variety of sectors, all contributing in their own way to the lifeblood of the county’s economy. All was pretty straightforward until March 2020 when it became
clear the country was going to need to rethink the way it went about its day-to-day life. Ben T omas said: “When the pandemic struck, I was devastated,
I didn’t know what was going to happen to the business or my staff , which by that time numbered around 10 people. “It was a diffi cult decision to carry on publishing, but in a strange
way I felt we owed it to the local business community to keep going. We had to remain positive. We moved heavily into digital content, with a number of diff erent digital initiatives during the pandemic, including video interviews and #WhatsInYourFridge… we even launched the ATB Arms, where anyone could join us every T ursday at 4pm for a drink and a pub quiz. We wanted to work with our clients, give them a chance to carry on promoting themselves despite the challenges we were all facing. We’d launched the Milton Keynes edition at the end of 2019 and combined the two areas for a few months so that both publications remained there for clients throughout.” All T ings Business ended lockdown with a new editor, Judith
Halliday, whose experience as a journalist, in the Northamptonshire business community in particular, brought a new focus to the production team. Ben said: “I worked with Judith when I was at Business Times, and had tried to persuade her to join us before, but
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