Why Stoke-on-Trent & Staffordshire

Welcome to Stoke-on-Trent & Staffordshire, a great location to live, work, invest and do business at the heart of the country.

Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire is a major UK growth opportunity. Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire played a unique role as one of the creative workshops of the Industrial Revolution. Today, we are a fast growing centre of modern manufacturing, making a major contribution to manufacturing employment growth nationally. Businesses here produce the advanced technical components and materials for a range of consumer and business products.

Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire has a rich heritage and is home to new, small and micro-businesses right through to large multinationals, such as JCB, Bet 365, Amazon, Jaguar Land Rover, Michelin and GE.

Connectivity
Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire's location is at the heart of the country which provides easy access to markets. We have outstanding transport infrastructure to the whole to the UK with excellent road, air, sea and rail connections. We are at the intersection of three major engines of UK growth (the West and East Midlands and the North West), making an important contribution to all three.

Talent
Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire has a population of over 1.1 million, with a further three million living within 45 minutes drive time. Of which, over 200,000 of the working age population are educated to degree level (NVQ level 4).

Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire have a highly skilled workforce with a particular strength in production and manufacturing industries. The area boasts higher than average levels of skills and employment in these areas. In addition to these traditional industries, Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire has a high level of expertise in administrative and secretarial occupations than the national average. The area also has a growing strength in sales and customer services roles with Stoke-on-Trent in particular having a significantly higher proportion of the population employed in these areas compared to both the West Midlands and the national average.

Both Staffordshire University and Keele University have widely respected engineering and computing faculties. This is combined with a wealth of established industry sectors, as well as strong research and development, in engineering, electronics, and materials and medical sciences.

Affordability
Lower cost premises – the average industrial and commercial rental per square metre is significantly lower than both Manchester and Birmingham.

Competitive wage costs give you the potential to save significant amounts in Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire compared to the national average, London and other nearby cities such as Manchester and Birmingham.

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