Plymouth's Well Placed for Upturn ; As Part of a Daily Series of Features This Week Examining How Plymouth Is Coping with the Recession, Business Editor William Telford Talks to Gavin Carrier, Chief Executive of the Plymouth City Development Company, and Discovers How One City Family Firm has Seen Business Boom in the Downturn

Plymouth Evening Herald, The › November 28, 2009

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THE recession is no worse than the one in the late 1980s and early 1990s and Plymouth is well placed to benefit from the recovery, the new head of the City Development Company has said. Gavin Carrier, who took over as chief executive of the CDC in September, described Plymouth as "a terrific place", but said it was "vastly undersold, with attributes that never reach the light of day".

He said his job was to help tell the world about the city's potential, which he said was immense.

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Plymouth's Well Placed for Upturn ; As Part of a Daily Series of Features This Week Examining How Plymouth Is Coping with the Recession, Business Editor William Telford Talks to Gavin Carrier, Chief Executive of the Plymouth City Development Company, and Discovers How One City Family Firm has Seen Business Boom in the Downturn

"Despite the economic climate there is life, energy and optimism in the city," he said. "There are problems, a...

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