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• Creative industries

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Creative industries

Key Reasons:

Rotherham offers significant advantages to the creative sector through its assisted status, for eligible companies, as well as physical and technological infrastructure.

Grant help is available through a variety of sources, enabling many successful companies to start-up an operation and grow in the borough.

The South Yorkshire Digital region project will also provide up to 100MB/s synchronous broadband capacity for businesses, and a number of datacentres offer local solutions to data backup and disaster recovery.

The two local Universities in Sheffield also offer graduates of creative studies, providing an exceptional skill base for the industry.

6.6% of employment in Rotherham is in the creative and digital industries.

Sub-Sectors:

Digital media, printing, web design, datacentres, graphic design

Skills:

Skill Area: Web developer
Skill Salary: Up to £30,000

Skill Area: Marketing manager
Skill Salary: Up to £35,000

Sector Companies:

Johnston Press, Cap Gemini, Garnett Dickinson, Documetric

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Main Business Functions

• Distribution/ logistics/ warehousing
• Light industrial
• Business services/ offices
• Low cost manufacturing
• Advanced manufacturing