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Two Start-Up Ventures Choose Waterfront Location As Their Ideal Offices
Liverpool Waters has welcomed two start-up business tenants to The Quay, Princes Dock, with professional services firm Odin Consulting and financial services provider Epic Finance having recently moved into the city centre location.
Video games group moves into city centre in ‘one of biggest deals this decade’
Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe have exchanged on a deal to lease all the office space compromising 65,000 sq ft over three floors in the Echo Place development on Old Hall Street, Liverpool.
Why city centre living is now more popular than ever in the UK
The populations of some of the country’s major cities have more than doubled over the past 15 years, especially in the north of England, and urban living is now the top choice for youngsters.
Investing in the city of Liverpool and why it is so increasingly popular
As a buzzing metropolitan city, the economy of Liverpool has expanded at a faster pace than the rest of the UK.
Stadium update on Everton's Bramley-Moore Dock Move
"Our new home on the waterfront will not only be a fantastic new stadium for Everton but also kick-start a regeneration of North Liverpool" says Everton CEO Denise Barrett-Baxendale.
Devolution deal progresses as Liverpool receives major investment boost
The latest funding agreement in the devolution deal secured in Liverpool will spell huge changes for the city.
£7m deal revives Liverpool brewery and creates 200 jobs
Cains beer is to be made at its Grade-II listed home for the first time in five years after a local entrepreneur acquired the Cains name and plans to open a new brewery in the building.
Liverpool set to become the "Hollywood" of the UK
Hollywood stars will be heading to Liverpool after one of London's leading film and TV studios announced plans to open a major new complex in the city.
Liverpool trouncing Manchester as 'true Northern Powerhouse'
Liverpool is outperforming Manchester and is England’s fastest growing city outside of London over the past 20 years.New analysis from city economics experts ‘City Metric’ has looked at data from the Centre for Cities think tank - and it looks very, very good for Liverpool.
UK named “Country of Honour” as trade mission heads to flagship Chinese International Industrial Fair
A business delegation including of some of the UK’s best advanced manufacturing and innovation companies will head to China this week to boost growing bilateral trade and investment ties.
Advanced manufacturing
In the Wirral area of Liverpool more than twice as many people are employed in advanced manufacturing as the national average.
Digital Liverpool
Liverpool has the second fastest growing digital cluster in the UK (TechNation, 2015) and is one of only 3 Internet of Things clusters. The sector generates just under £1bn of economic activity a year, employing 19,000 people.
The maritime economy
Liverpool is the only deep sea port on the UK’s west coast, recognised by government and industry as vital to its Northern Powerhouse programme. If the country joins NAFTA on its exit from the EU then, as the dominant port in North American trade, Liverpool’s maritime economy will enjoy further rapid growth.
Financial and professional services
Liverpool is one of the top 3 wealth management locations in the UK, with a substantial stockbroking, fund management and pension management sector. The city’s oldest business, Rathbones, manages more than £36bn of assets from its base on the Pier Head, for example.
The science economy
More than 10,000 highly skilled and well-paid people work in the life sciences sector in Liverpool, generating £1.7bn a year in economic output. The city hums with the output of research establishments, many for global giants such as Astra Zeneca, Seqirus, Eli Lilly and Actavis, and £2bn of investment is now committed to growing the sector.