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Location Leeds: open for business

Essential guide to the Leeds commercial property market, showcasing the city's premier business locations. Features out of town and city centre offices, retail and industrial premises. Published in association with Yorkshire Business Insider.

Leeds:The Facts
the key facts

Statistical overview of the economy of Leeds and the city region including information on key sectors, workforce, population and output.

Business in Leeds:
the key facts

Detailed information on the Leeds economy covering everything from financial services to the media, workforce and skills also providing an overview of the Leeds lifestyle including education, leisure and healthcare.

Holbeck Urban Village: a creative location for business

A fast developing location for creative and digital media businesses close to the centre of Leeds. Includes case studies of companies based in the area.

Government departments and agencies

Detailed report is available setting out the advantages of Leeds as a location for government departments and agencies. Includes case studies.

Shared Service Centres

Detailed report on advantages of Leeds as a location for shared services centres. Includes studies of shared services operations based in Leeds.

Making it in Leeds

Detailed report on the manufacturing sector in Leeds, including case studies on some of the city's leading manufacturers.

Conference Leeds

Guide to 290 venues for conferences, seminars and training events in Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, Wakefield and Pennine Yorkshire.

Health technologies

The Yorkshire and Humber region contains the largest concentration of orthopaedic and medical device companies in the UK, with over 360 companies and a combined output of around £550 million.

Leeds is home to over 100 companies specialising in medical devices, health-related biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, together employing over 3,500 people. They produce a diverse range of products within the main sub-sectors of medical and surgical equipment, orthopaedic prosthetics, personal appliances, dental materials and appliances.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is the largest in the UK, treating over a million patients a year with a budget of £789 million and a workforce of over 14,000. St James’s University Hospital, part of the Trust, is the largest teaching hospital in Europe. It houses the landmark £220 million Yorkshire Cancer Centre, opened in 2008, the largest of its kind in Europe.

The Enterprise & Innovation Office at the University of Leeds works with public and private sector partners to commercialise research and innovation in the fields of healthcare and medical technology.

The University of Leeds is home to two Centres for Industrial Collaboration of particular interest to the sector. The Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering CIC gives the region’s firms access to expertise and facilities in orthopaedics, woundcare, cardiovascular surgery, dentistry and urology. The Particles CIC offers expertise in pharmaceuticals and biotechnology.

The Leeds Dental Institute’s state of the art research clinic is dedicated to the delivery of world class translational and clinical research in dentistry.

The University of Leeds, with its private sector partner IP Group, supports spin-outs emerging from the university and is currently responsible for 16 such firms in Leeds, including the award-winning Photopharmica, Tissue Regenix Ltd, Avacta and Luto Research. 

Depuy International Ltd, part of the Johnson and Johnson group, has its headquarters and UK R&D facilities in Leeds. Other award-winning companies based in Leeds include Surgical Innovations, Brandon Medical, Xiros plc and Medasil Surgical Ltd.

Medilink (Yorkshire & Humber) Ltd acts as a gateway for national and international clients interested in developing commercial, research or clinical relationships with the region’s medical technology companies, hospitals and universities.

Leeds is home to Medipex, the NHS innovation hub for the Yorkshire and Humber region, considered to be one of the most successful hubs in the UK.

A bioincubator with serviced office and laboratory accommodation, is situated within the University of Leeds campus.