Meet the Member - Gary Skentelbery from Orbit News Ltd

Name of Business Orbit News Ltd. (Warrington Worldwide)
Who are you? Gary Skentelbery
What sets you apart from the competition? Independent family owned media business
How did the business come about? Originally formed in 1968 as a news agency selling news and pictures to local, regional and national newspapers, radio & TV Orbit News developed www.warrington-worldwide.co.uk as the first independent online newspaper in the UK alongside publishing free local high quality community news magazines. Now publishing six titles across Warrington & Cheshire.
http://www.warrington-worldwide.co.uk/

What are your main target markets? Depending on local advertising, our target market is SME’s who want to develop their brand and win new customers.
How long has your business been in existence? 50 years
How many staff do you employ? Six full time six part-time
What job or achievement makes you most proud? Developing an independent publishing company and winning the support and backing of many key organisations and businesses in the town.
Where do you see the business being in five years? Leading the way in digital publishing
Why Warrington? Warrington is in our DNA
Tell us one interesting thing about the business that might surprise us? Now become a third generation family business
Tell us one interesting thing about you that people might not know? (ie, hobbies, amusing fact, etc) Being proactive on social media means there is not a lot people don’t know about me. After family, my next big passion is classic rock music and I can still be seen enjoying myself in the mosh pit as a rocking grandad! · Brexit – good, bad, opportunity? It has divided our country – so whether you are in the leave or remain camp, it is bad for our country.
Fantasy dinner party – which six people alive or dead would you invite? Ozzy Osbourne, General Custer, Julius Caesar, John Wayne, Bruce Dickinson (Iron maiden) Churchill.