Key Sectors

Bradford's Professional & Financial Services

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The figures tell the story

With a total of around 3,600 companies in the sector, the Bradford district boasts a solid background in Professional & Financial Services. Major companies headquartered here, include Yorkshire Building Society, Bradford & Bingley and Provident Financial with the Skipton, Halifax and Yorkshire Bank headquartered nearby.

Advanced Engineering & Materials

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Shaping a solid future for engineering

Bradford is home to 260 foreign-owned companies from 27 countries including Denso Marston Ltd, the largest Japanese owned manufacturing company in the Yorkshire & Humber region, BorgWarner Turbo Systems Ltd, the US owned global producer of Turbochargers, Switchgear & Instrumentation Ltd, the UK's leading manufacturer of low and medium voltage switchgear, and A H Marks Ltd is now part of one of the largest global pesticide companies, Australian based Nufarm.

Environmental Technologies in Bradford

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The perfect environment for growth

The Environmental Technologies sector is an industry of increasing national importance - currently worth over £12 billion a year and forecast to double by 2018. Bradford has companies at the forefront of this sector. Kelda and NG Bailey are headquartered within the district and undertake extensive environmental work.

Bradford's Creative & Digital Industries

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On the right wavelength  

Creative & Digital Industries (CDI) business in Yorkshire and the Humber continues to grow. The sector recorded the strongest recent output growth of all seven priority business clusters identified by the regional development agency, Yorkshire Forward. It is also set to increase more than 50% in the ten years up until 2015. This means that the CDI sector is set to overtake engineering to become the cluster with the largest output of all.

Bradford's Food & Drink Industry

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All the right ingredients

The Yorkshire and Humber region justly lays claim to the title of UK food capital. With a higher concentration of food and drink companies than anywhere else in the country - more than 1,018 (2006), with a staggering combined turnover of £8bn a year - the area's expertise in this sector is unrivalled. In particular, the region's ethnic and speciality food industries are growing rapidly.

Healthcare Technology In Bradford

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A healthy setting for medical businesses

The Bradford area is home to a far-reaching array of medical technology companies. Some, such as healthcare equipment specialist James Spencer & Co, have been trading successfully for several decades, while the likes of AGT Sciences, Agenda 1 and Lena Nanoceutics have arrived more recently and are riding the wave of innovation and technology that is sweeping through the industry worldwide.