News Release Thursday 22nd January 2009
Avanta Plays Host to BBC’S Million Dollar Traders
Serviced office company Avanta is making its national television debut, with its Austin Friars business centre in the City of London playing a starring role in the BBC2’s Million Dollar Traders series, aired throughout 3 weeks in January.
The programme forms part of the BBC’s City Season, and gives eight ordinary people a million dollars and a fortnight’s intensive training to help prepare them to launch their own hedge fund and try to make their fortune in the stocks and shares market.
The production team and novice traders spent two months filming in Avanta’s 53,000 sq ft building at 23 Austin Friars . The traders set up camp in one of the buildings grade A office suites, buying and selling in the stock market in an attempt to make their millions.
For further information, please contact:
PR agency contact:
Richard Stocks
FD Tamesis
Tel: 020 7269 9355 / 07951 328475
richard.stocks@fdtamesis.com
Avanta contact:
Anna Haslam
Avanta Managed Offices Ltd
1 Lyric Square
London
W6 0NB
Tel: 0203 008 6000
http://www.avanta.co.uk/
Notes to Editors
Avanta was formed in 2004 by David Alberto, previously with Regus and former Managing Director at MWB Business Exchange. The company offers highly flexible, unbranded office space, with advanced and competitively priced technology, tailor made to meet the requirements of the occupier. In the UK it currently manages over 670,000 sq ft of office space in prime locations in London, the Thames Valley, Manchester, Birmingham and Edinburgh. Avanta’s first international business centre in New Delhi, India opened in September 2008 and a further two centres, in Mumbai, are opening soon.
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