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Location Leeds: a better environment 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.

Shared services

Leeds is making a name for itself as home to a significant, diverse and growing cluster of shared service centres and outsourcing operations, attracted to the city by its skilled labour pool and excellent value for money office accommodation.

Shared service centres in Leeds are found in both the private and public sectors, spanning a broad range of functions from finance and accounting through to HR and IT services.

A detailed report is available setting out the advantages of Leeds as a location for shared services centres. Download the report.

The global IT centre for international law firm DLA Piper is based in Leeds.

US manufacturer Diebold‘s finance and accounts processing centre covering Europe, Middle East and Africa is located in Leeds.

Other private sector operations include General Electric‘s employee services and Premier Farnell’s finance, human resources and legal teams.

In the public sector, the NHS, Environment Agency and British Waterways have shared service centres in Leeds covering human resources, finance and accounting.

The surrounding city region hosts the shared services operations of Northern Foods, Virgin Media and DEFRA.

Leeds is also home to a range of big name outsourcing companies, including Capita, Northgate, Ceridian and the headquarters of Ventura.

In Cushman & Wakefield’s UK Cities Monitor 2008, Leeds features in the top two nationally for ‘best place for a new back office function’ and ‘best place for a new call centre’.

Universities in the Leeds city region produce 36,000 graduates annually, including over 1,100 in modern languages and over 1,600 in IT-related courses.

Leeds salaries are generally lower than those in London, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham and Bristol (Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, 2010).

Leeds’ diverse population and popularity with overseas students have given it a large pool of foreign language speakers.

Leeds offers a diverse range of connectivity options – 100 per cent of exchanges are ADSL enabled and significant bandwidth is available within five metres of every business in Leeds city centre and all office parks.