Business continuity and disaster recoveryManchester wins award for business continuity planning

Published 11 June 2008

The city of Manchester is recognized for having a sophisticated business continuity plan which can “deliver essential services whatever the disruption”

A Manchester City Council initiative to ensure the city’s business and volunteer community can “deliver essential services whatever the disruption,” has won a national award. The Manchester Business Continuity Forum picked up the Business Continuity Initiative of the Year gong in the Continuity Insurance and Risk magazine awards, held in London recently. The initiative, according to the council’s press release trumpeting the win, “helps members be ready to cope with any type of business interruption - such as a power cut”. Does that include power cuts to enormous television screens in city centres being watched by 20,000 hammered Glaswegians?