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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.

Information for Business

Leeds City Council’s Business and Patents Information provide services for existing businesses, entrepreneurs, inventors and those looking to start a small business.

Our services include business to business mailing lists based on the MINT or FAME databases, which hold millions of records of UK businesses.

Lists can be supplied electronically or in printed form using one or a combination of parameters including location, sector, number of employees, turnover and company directors.

We also produce an up to date directory of Top Employers in Leeds and Yorkshire, as well as providing access to detailed company accounts and the latest market research.

Mintel and Key Note consumer and industry reports are available from the Information Centre at the Central Library.

To view any of our resources online, visit: www.leeds.gov.uk/onlineresources

Access is free using a Leeds Library membership card.

We can also help you put a value on your own assets in the form of brand, copyright, new products – and, importantly, how to avoid infringing others’ intellectual property.

Our nationally acclaimed services offer guidance on applying for patents, trademarks, design and copyright, free clinics with a CIPA Patent Attorney, searches to establish whether your brand or invention is new.

Inventors and entrepreneurs can attend our regular networking events at the Central Library, including the monthly Leeds Inventors Group, and our fortnightly Enterprise Group, which offers workshops on becoming self employed and business start up basics.

All services are free or low cost. For a free quote or more information: Tel: 0113 247 8266, email: piu@leeds.gov.uk