16/03/2020
Unfortunately NRB20 has been cancelled.
Northern Restaurant & Bar Statement
The escalating situation regarding COVID-19 means that regretfully there is no option but to postpone NRB20. We are in discussion with our venue, Manchester Central, and will announce new dates to our visitors, exhibitors, sponsors and partners imminently.
Visitor pre-registration has been running at near record levels up until this morning, with almost two thousand hospitality professionals registering in the last week alone and the majority of our exhibitors committed to attend. But understandably anticipated government updates change everything, and we must react immediately and decisively. The welfare of all remains our utmost priority.
These are incredibly challenging times for the region’s hospitality industry, and NRB has been a part of it, through good times and bad, for twenty years. We exist to inform, support and inspire the North’s leading operators, so feel a responsibility that our next edition of NRB will be our most vital yet. We will not let the industry down.
Right now, our thoughts are with you and your teams, and all of those working within the hospitality industry, in these incredibly uncertain and challenging times.
In order to help us manage this safely we ask that any queries regarding operational issues only including breakdown of stands, collection of items, deliveries etc please email [email protected]. We ask for your patience while we deal an expected high level of calls and emails.
Thom Hetherington, CEO, Holden Media
Issued 16 March 2020
