{"id":17393,"date":"2026-10-02T16:09:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T16:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=17393"},"modified":"2026-10-02T16:09:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T16:09:34","slug":"smith-and-devine-launch-conference-sector-venture-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=17393","title":{"rendered":"Smith and Devine launch conference sector venture \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <\/p>\n<p>Mary Ann Smith and Francesca Devine<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Entrepreneur Mary Ann Smith has joined forces with branding and events adviser Francesca Devine to launch a new venture in the conference sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Booking Office is aimed at helping businesses maximise their investment from conferences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Ms Smith, who has been involved in occupational therapy, property sourcing, hair treatments and executive coaching, is a senior figure in the chambers movement. She said the new venture had been a long time in development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is a new business, but the work behind it has been part of my life for years,\u201d she said in a social media post. \u201cTo launch it now, with the right business partner beside me, feels incredibly exciting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe help businesses turn conferences, exhibitions and corporate tables into new business, valuable relationships and a measurable return on investment. The right strategy. The right people. Meaningful follow-up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Ms Devine, a cup-winning netball and football player in her teens, has spent her career mainly in sales and marketing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Commenting on the new venture, she said: \u201cCompanies invest significant time and money into conferences, exhibitions, corporate hospitality and events. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe want to make sure that investment has a clear commercial purpose by creating the right conversations, building valuable relationships and ultimately turning opportunities into measurable business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Daily Business Bulletin:\u00a0Subscribe here for our free morning bulletin of breaking news<\/p>\n<p>           \t            #Smith #Devine #launch #conference #sector #venture #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Ann Smith and Francesca Devine Entrepreneur Mary Ann Smith has joined forces with branding&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[272,400,306,22319,22316,2385,22317,1529,4817,22318,446],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}