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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.

Media

Growth over the last decade has made Leeds one of the UK’s top five centres for media, new media and communications.

In the Leeds City Region, the sector employs 31,500 people.

Leeds has over 1,600 companies providing employment for around 19,200 people in the fields of print, publishing, news agencies, graphic design, television, radio, film, advertising, marketing, internet services, e-commerce and public relations.

The sector in Leeds is characterised by its breadth, rapid growth and willingness to embrace change.

There are 450 companies in software and IT consultancy based in Leeds, together with 160 in advertising and PR, over 70 graphic design agencies, eight news agencies and 24 companies associated with TV production.

The sector includes major regional companies such as the Yorkshire Post and BBC North, as well as a number of independent advertising and marketing agencies with national and international clients, including Brass, Creative Marketing Services, Gratterpalm, Banana Kick, Clearsilver and Thompson.

New media businesses, involved in internet provision and related activities, are growing rapidly and Leeds is renowned as the largest new media city outside of London, particularly for business applications.

Major media companies based in Leeds include: Orange Multimedia Operations, Radio Aire and Magic 828, Real Radio, TEAMtalk, Communisis, Corporate Document Services, Brilliant Media, Elmwood Design, Galaxy 105, Grayling and ATTIK.

The city’s two universities and several of its colleges of further and higher education offer a wide variety of media-related courses.

The Round Foundry Media Centre provides a high specification, serviced office environment for creative and digital media businesses. Located within Holbeck Urban Village, it is part of a fast developing business and residential community located just a few minutes’ walk from Leeds city centre.

The region’s screen media industry is promoted through Screen Yorkshire, set up to champion the vibrant creativity of the region.

Leeds Media works to promote the creative talents and expertise of media companies based in Leeds and the Yorkshire region. Now part of Leeds, York and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce, Leeds Media offers a wide range of benefits and opportunities to its members and the wider business community.