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皇冠体育app Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, is visiting Yorkshire today to celebrate 100 days to go until the beginning of the Tour de France and to launch the Yorkshire Festival - the first ever arts festival to accompany the start of this legendary race.

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皇冠体育app Grand D茅part International Business Festival will run from 2 to 4 July, showcasing the very best that Britain and Yorkshire has to offer. As part of the festival, there will be 2 business hubs in the Carriage Works in Leeds and the Institute of Sports in Sheffield. 皇冠体育appse hubs will target visitors and potential investors through a series of events showing off what the region has to offer.

Local businesses will be able to use the business to meet visiting companies and present their ideas to them, giving them an amazing chance to meet with firms from across the globe.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said:

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and Grand D茅part International Business Festival are 2 ways we can use this fantastic opportunity to showcase Yorkshire鈥檚 unique culture and boost local businesses.

With just 100 days to go until the Tour de France, it is genuinely exciting to see how Yorkshire is getting geared up and I am delighted to visit iconic local businesses like Bettys and Henderson鈥檚 Relish.

To show visiting businesses what Yorkshire has to offer, a number of companies will open their factories to visitors and show off their skills. This gives inward investors the opportunity to see exactly where they can invest, as well as exploring the local supply of labour and the supply chain. This means Yorkshire can showcase the sectors where the region excels. 皇冠体育app focus in Leeds will be on the retail sector and medical devices and in Sheffield it will be on sports technologies and engineering. 皇冠体育appre will also be a series of events celebrating agricultural technology in York and a food and drink event in Harrogate.

皇冠体育app Deputy Prime Minister will talk about the importance of the tour for Yorkshire and the rest of the country as he addresses 2,000 people at the Yorkshire Festival 2014 today in Harrogate. He will then visit iconic local businesses Bettys Tea Rooms and Henderson鈥檚 Relish to see how they鈥檙e getting ready for Yorkshire鈥檚 time to shine. He will visit Field Cycles in Sheffield to see the steps involved in making a traditional bicycle, highlighting Sheffield鈥檚 innovative steel working legacy. 皇冠体育app Sheffield Steel Peloton is one of the commissions being showcased through the Yorkshire Festival 2014, which was launched today.