The Mersey Partnership
Key Competitive Attractions
Today, the Liverpool City Region is a vibrant, confident and welcoming place. Proud of its past, passionate about its future and living for today.
Famous around the world for its waterfront, The Beatles and football, the Liverpool City Region has a whole lot more to offer.
For visitors, it offers a heady cultural and commercial mix.
For students, it has three universities, each outstanding in their chosen fields - and the reputation of being the best place in the UK to be a student.
For residents, it provides simply a great lifestyle - affordable, diverse and inspiring.
For business, it offers a plentiful, skilled and productive workforce, a creative and innovative instinct, a plethora of affordable property options, a supportive and visionary business environment, great facilities, convenience and an exceptionally competitive cost base.
Assistance and Support For New Business Investors
Competition for inward investment remains at a high level across the UK and increasingly in the global market place. Established in 1993, The Mersey Partnership has an excellent track record in assisting companies investing in the Liverpool City Region, to make the right decisions on property, finance and people.
Our services include:
- A dedicated team with a named contact to project manage requirements, both pre and post investment. From financial assistance to training and recruitment.
- Rigorous demographic analysis to facilitate investment decision making e.g. office costs, taxes, workforce, regional financial assistance and infrastructure.
- Annual review of the City Region's economy, measuring performance across a broad range of important indicators, benchmarked against other leading conurbations.
- Detailed information about the Liverpool City Region - e.g. available sites & premises, local labour availability, financial assistance, infrastructure, education and lifestyle.
- A joined up approach with partners, ensuring you have access to the right support from the most appropriate agencies in the region.
- Specific information about key sectors across Liverpool City Region and introductions to sector specialists - e.g. Professional Services; Sciences; Call Centres/Service Support; Energy & Environmental; Retail & Leisure; Digital & Creative and Maritime.
- Provision of contacts within professional service companies - e.g. accountants, banks, lawyers, relocation service companies and recruitment companies.
- Once located in the region, the Investor Development Team work alongside companies across the Liverpool City Region, to build relationships with locally based operations of national and international companies and give the support you need to grow and reinvest.
Existing Business Base
Liverpool City Region hosts many national and international businesses, across a range of high value and high growth sectors - Jaguar Land Rover, Unilever, Pilkington, Ineos - to name a few.
Alliance and Leicester, Coutts, Rathbones, Barclaycard, HBOS, all have a significant presence here, in our financial services sector. We also have a great professional services sector that provides a wealth of services at a fraction of London rates.
Business service operators include Arvato, Capita, Enterprise, Vertex, and in associated sectors we have fantastic facilities at Littlewoods, O2 and QVC.
Our rich science base extends from our 4* Universities and School of Tropical Medicine, through the UK Biomanufacturing Centre to Novartis, Eli Lilly and Astra Zeneca - making Liverpool the Biomanufacturing capital of Europe.
Our creativity thrives in digital and creative companies like Lime Pictures, makers of Hollyoaks, and Sony, whose world leading title, Motorstorm, was developed here, helping to make this one of Europe`s leading games software development centres.
The river, which built the region`s wealth through the port, over a century ago, is now handling record levels of cargo with its investment in post panamax facilities.
This, together with other key investments around the region, is set to make Liverpool City Region one of the most important maritime and logistics locations in the uk.
