New Chamber Chairman calls for more optimism in Town.
We can do it and we will do it - says Nickie Phillipston Stow.
The new chairman of Tewkesbury's Chamber of Commerce and Industry is Mrs Nickie Phillipston Stow.
She took over from Mrs Margaret White, after being voted in at the group's recent annual general meeting.
Mrs Phillipston Stowe has run the Orange Pig, a children's outfitters in the High Street for the past 20 years. As Chairman her main aim is to get Tewkesbury firmly back on the tourist map.
"There are so many possibilities and opportunities in Tewkesbury, but we have got to do it step by step," she said.
She wants to see the whole town pull together, with more optimism and less of the defeatist attitude she says is prevalent today.
"We want people to see Tewkesbury as a good place to come to. It might be exciting to visit Cribbs Causeway shopping centre, but they are all chain stores. There are no interesting individual shops there.'' she said.
She says that what Tewkesbury really needs to improve business is to get the shops at the bottom of the High Street filled.
"We have got to get the landlords who own them on our side, and make them realise that money is not everything. "We can do it and we will do it" she said.
Town Mayor, Peter Randell, shares her views on the way forward, and the two of them are getting together to discuss the future of the town next week.
News story date:June 15, 2000
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