LOCALLY GROWN STARS

Global businesses and home grown entrepreneurs, among them Cannon Hygiene , British Energy Generation, Axa Direct, Monstermob, and Legend Communications plc, power the area's expanding economy.

With an investment package of £25 million, the city's Economic Development Zone (EDZ) is stimulating an influx of ambitious businesses eager to capitalise on the area's world-class academic and research resources, affordable property and labour costs and high skill levels.