THE North East LEP has issued a final call for businesses to lead a major free advertising campaign to be shown to millions of passengers at Heathrow Airport for six weeks from May 18.

The North-East is the first of six British regions to be offered free advertising space worth £500,000 at the airport and businesses are being invited to submit images they believe best represent the region as the place to invest.

Ten images will be shortlisted by the North East LEP for use in the campaign, which will also feature in a ten second video that will be used on digital platforms at the airport. A final image will also be chosen to front the campaign and be used on two poster sites at Terminal Four and Five.

The deadline to send images which they believe best represent the region as a place for business to invest, grow and prosper is midnight on Monday April 27 – with dozens of high quality photographs already submitted.

Paul Woolston, North East LEP Chair, said: “We are delighted at the quality and breadth of North East business in the images sent to us which capture the depth of our business talent and we thank everyone who has taken the time to contact us.

“We are particularly keen to receive images which show the North East as the national leader it now is in innovation.

“Images of subsea, marine and advanced manufacturing, passenger vehicle manufacture, health and life sciences, creative, digital technology and software development are all sectors we excel in and we’d love to be able to showcase them to the world as well.”

Businesses are invited to submit photographs to show why there is every reason to invest in the North-East via the LEP’s Twitter account twitter.com/northeastlep using the hashtag #openforbusiness or email using info@nelep.co.uk with the subject headline #openforbusiness

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