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Invest Liverpool City Region

  • Why Liverpool City Region
    • Inspiring Place
    • Inspiring Innovation
    • Inspiring Environmental Change
    • Inspiring Talent
    • Inspiring Global Connectivity
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    • Advanced Manufacturing
    • Digital Creative & Technology
    • Health & Life Sciences
    • Infection Prevention & Control
    • Port & Logistics
    • Professional & Financial Services
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INSPIRING
BUSINESS

A place of global businesses and global connectivity.

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World famous for music, culture and football – Liverpool City Region offers so much more.

It’s a hotbed of creativity, innovation and talent in advanced manufacturing, infection control, digitalisation, immersive technology and renewable energy.

A place of global businesses and global connectivity.

Employers from all over the world come to Liverpool City Region for our creative talent, high-quality facilities at cost-competitive prices, access to global transport links and deep expertise in key business sectors.

Global businesses, like Astra Zeneca, Ford, IBM, Jaguar Landrover, Maersk, NSG, Sony, Seqirus and Unilever, have all made this warm, inspiring and attractive place their home.

They enjoy a thriving ecosystem of professional and business services and a buoyant visitor economy. And of course, can access global markets through the UK’s largest Atlantic-facing port and two close international airports.

In short, Liverpool City Region is brimming with opportunity; primed for investment and made for living.

Let us help you to reap the benefits of working in a region that inspires business.

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6 Million

People live within 1hr drive time

50%

of UK manufacturers’ closest port

£1bn

Invested in Liverpool’s logistics infrastructure

£2.1bn

of Foreign Direct Investment over the last 4 years

£32 bn

Gross Value Added – 3rd largest regional economy in the North West of the UK

250,000

Students developing specialist expertise at 12 universities within the region’s catchment

Freeport

Offering unrivalled tax and customs incentives

UK Hub

For vaccine discovery, development and manufacture

Key Sectors

Liverpool City Region is a leading destination for business, home to global brands, exciting start-ups and innovators and with a western facing port is a pivotal gateway for Global Britain.

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Professional & Financial Services

Liverpool City Region is a go-to destination for those in the Business, Professional and Financial Services sector in search of new opportunities and connections.

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Port & Logistics

With a port closest to 50% of UK consumers and Freeport Trading Zones discover what our location can do for you.

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Health & Life Sciences

Discover an inspiring region with state-of-the-art scientific facilities and world-leading academic institutions driving innovation in key health & life science fields.

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Infection Prevention & Control

Liverpool City Region has an established and thriving vaccine ecosystem that is competitive and viable.

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Advanced Manufacturing

A place for makers and creators, Liverpool City Region presents unrivalled transatlantic links and fast access to markets and consumers across the world.

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Digital Creative & Technology

Home to some of the most advanced computing, data and AI technologies in the world, discover what our capabilities can do for your scientific discoveries.

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KEY FACTS & FIGURES

6 million living within 1hr drive time

The UK’s primary Transatlantic Port handling 45% of US trade

One of the fastest-growing tech sectors in the UK

UK leading hub for vaccine discovery and manufacture

Reasons to invest in Liverpool City Region

Liverpool City Region is a leading destination for business, home to global brands, exciting start-ups and innovators and with a western-facing port is a pivotal gateway for Global Britain.

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Location

A vibrant city region brimming with life, individuality, style and great humour as well as a strong sense of community.

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Innovation

This is a place of transformation, where the ingenuity and creativity of people is helping to pioneer the ideas, industries, and infrastructure of the future. 

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Environmental Change

We have set an ambition to be net zero carbon by 2040 and alongside significant investment in new clean energy sources are supporting all parts of our economy to create sustainable growth.

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Talent

With almost one million residents of working age, discover what our hardworking and dynamic workforce can do for you.

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Global Connectivity

By road, rail, land, air or sea, our west coast central UK location makes Liverpool City Region one of the best physically connected city regions in the UK as well as one of the most digitally connected.

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This is an inspiring place

Liverpool City Region is one of the friendliest places in the UK. Internationally renowned for our vibrancy, creativity, outstanding natural assets and location, our people make us an exciting international centre for culture and commerce.

A 5th of our working-age population is in their twenties, providing businesses with a vibrant, productive, and qualified workforce. Armed with great humour and pioneering ideas we offer so much more than other UK city regions.

For decades we’ve tried to describe the region’s spirit. To put into words the buzz of the place and the feeling it encapsulates for those that come to visit, study or work here. It has to be experienced to be understood. It’s a place you want to return to and for many, it becomes the place they call home. It’s what makes us a sought-after UK destination.

Why Liverpool City Region?

“We’ve relocated some members of the team from across the UK and the EU, and the city played a role in us being able to attract them. Liverpool is such a vibrant, cultural and cosmopolitan city with affordable housing, where our people can easily feel welcome and at home. There’s a buzz around Liverpool and it’s so cool to be part of that.”

ALISON LACY, LOCATION MANAGER, AVALANCHE STUDIOS

Reap the benefits of working in a region that inspires business.

We thought you might like to meet some of the real people that make Liverpool City Region work. From those that are starting out to those that have carved their careers here. The young professionals, experienced business leaders, world-class academics and those bringing about positive change.

You can also hear from businesses that have benefitted from making Liverpool City Region their home.

Inspiring People
Inspiring Stories

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Discover what Liverpool City Region has to offer you

Download our Liverpool City Region fact sheet as a summary of the benefits of locating or expanding here.

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Whatever your business ambition, requirement or opportunity – talk to one of our team to see how we can help. We are in the business of delivering value, success and excellence and we’re waiting to speak with you. 

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News & Events

BioGrad to open the UK’s second largest biobank facility in Liverpool as part of a £7.6m investment into new headquarters

BioGrad is to open the UK’s second largest biobank facility in Liverpool, as part of a £7.6m investment into a new headquarters at Wavertree …
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Destination Hydrogen – Growth Platform @ Foresight Hydrogen 2023

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Research at the Royal will explore new infection tackling tech

An innovative study has been launched at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital to explore how a new antimicrobial coating can protect the NHS by …
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