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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.

Skills

One of the advantages of a Leeds location is the availability of a large workforce with the skills to meet the needs of a diverse and growing economy.

Leeds City Region Employment and Skills Board has been established to encourage more targeted investment in workforce skills and better alignment between the requirements of employers and suppliers of training and education.

There are over 60,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students at Leeds’ two internationally acclaimed universities. Both universities have internationally recognised business schools.

The University of Leeds is the one of the UK’s largest universities with more than 32,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students from 130 countries around the world. It is one of the top ten research universities in the UK and a member of the Russell Research Group of ‘research intensive’ universities.

Leeds Metropolitan University enjoys one of the highest employment rates for its graduates. In 2007, 92.7% of all first degree students found work or further study within six months of graduating.

Leeds Trinity University College has just under 3,000 postgraduate and undergraduate students and was granted the power to award its own degrees in July 2009.

There are four other Universities in the Leeds City Region – Bradford, York, York St John and Huddersfield.

The White Rose University Consortium is a unique partnership between Yorkshire’s research intensive universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York. The universities work together to enhance their ability to achieve the highest levels of international excellence in the generation and transfer of knowledge.

Leeds is the second largest provider of further education for young people in England. There are five colleges of further education and two higher education colleges in Leeds with a total of 78,000 students.

Leeds City College is the UK’s third largest FE college, offering a diverse curriculum to over 55,000 students.

Leeds provides specialist training in many areas including leading edge healthcare training at the city’s two major teaching hospitals and the most up to date printing and publishing techniques at Leeds City College.

Leeds is also home to Electronics Yorkshire, which provides bespoke training for electronics companies and those working in the industry.

West Yorkshire New Technology Institute, based in Leeds, provides businesses and individuals with access to bespoke training courses focusing on systems management, programming and software applications.