Regus Offers 'British Airways Opportunity Grants' Winners Access to 1,000 Business Centers Worldwide

DALLAS, March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The Regus Group (LSE: RGU), the world's largest provider of innovative workplace solutions, today announced that it will award 500 businessworld Gold Membership cards to the winners of the "British Airways Opportunities Grants" campaign.  The Regus businessworld Gold program offers members access to more than 1,000 Internet-equipped business lounges in 450 cities worldwide.  

"Business Opportunity Grants" is phase two of "Face to Face," a multi-phased campaign aimed  to drive forward small and medium sized businesses by focusing on face to face connections as a crucial driver of business growth. The program offers these companies a variety of support including the opportunity to travel overseas and conduct face-to-face business meetings that will result in new projects, deeper partnerships and revenue for U.S. cities.

For its Business Opportunity Grants campaign, British Airways hand selected the winning companies primarily based on how a year's worth of business travel and face to face meetings, along with other valuable business support, would positively impact each business, its growth and ability to meet objectives for 2010. The grant includes airfare for 10 roundtrip Club World business class flights, five free global shipments with British Airways World Cargo, hotel accommodations at Courtyard by Marriott, a Canon MX860 Printer, and three face-to-face business introductions through ExeConnect.

"We're delighted that we could be a part of such a great campaign and provide these winning companies with immediate access to any of our business centers worldwide," said Rebecca Tann, Vice President of Marketing for Regus.  "Finding a professional setting that allows you to remain productive while on the road is a challenge that most business travelers face each day.  With our businessworld Gold card these winning companies will have convenient access to high profile, fully equipped business centers in nearly every major city in the world."

Bob Boyd is Chief Executive Officer of Agility Recovery Solutions, a company that has been providing disaster recovery and business continuity services to businesses of all sizes for more than 21 years.  As a Business Opportunity Grant winner Agility Recovery Solutions plans to take full advantage of the Regus businessworld card.

"The Regus businessworld card is a perfect fit for us because we have sales people all over the country. When they're on the road and need a professional place to meet with clients or if they simply need a place to make phone calls or remain productive after or between meetings they can use their businessworld card at the nearest Regus center," said Boyd.  

"A large portion of our sales team also works from home so the Regus businessworld card is a great solution when they need to meet with clients in a professional setting.  Our sales team in Denver has already used a Regus center so we're definitely taking advantage of this great offering," added Boyd.    

With more than 1,000 global locations The Regus Group provides business travelers with convenient access to a full-range of business-ready workplace solutions including private, furnished offices, meeting rooms, videoconferencing studios and business lounges.  Regus clients typically experience up to a 60 percent savings on their facilities costs over leasing traditional office space.  For those clients who may not need a full-time office, Regus also offers virtual offices, which allow businesses to instantly gain a presence in a new market with a prestigious, high-profile business address and local telephone answering and mail handling services.

About The Regus Group

Regus is the world's leading global provider of innovative workspace solutions, with products and services ranging from fully equipped offices to professional meeting rooms, business lounges and the world's largest network of video communication studios. Regus delivers a new way to work, whether it's from home, on the road or from an office. Clients such as Google, GlaxoSmithKline, and Nokia join thousands of growing small and medium businesses that benefit from outsourcing their office and workspace needs to Regus, allowing them to focus on their core business.

More than 500,000 clients a day benefit from Regus facilities spread across a global footprint of 1,000 locations in 450 cities and 78 countries, which allow individuals and companies to work wherever, however and whenever they want to.  Regus was founded in 1989 in Brussels, Belgium and is listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE: RGU).

For more information please visit www.regus.com.

SOURCE The Regus Group