Discover why Breckland is the place to grow your business in Norfolk investinbreckland.co.uk | [email protected] When looking to grow Key facts about the East of England (EoE)1 your business, you’ll need Welcome Seven good reasons to affordable space and strong Second fastest growing UK region in business networks. You’ll 2017 (real gross value added up 2.5% want a community that to Breckland move your enterprise year on year) welcomes you and a council Home to 9.3% of the UK’s population with an investment mindset. to the heart of the East Generates 8.4% of GDP You’d also appreciate a Third highest GDP per person in the family-friendly environment UK at around £21,500 that helps you attract and One of the lowest unemployment retain talented employees. Breckland offers all these benefits. In Breckland, your business can benefit from: rates (3.9% compared to 4.4% nationally) Breckland is the heartland of the East of England, which is one of the UK’s The UK’s fourth largest most dynamic regions1. We are ideally located for Norwich, Cambridge and 1. Affordable space for your development, thanks to competitive exporting region 2 land prices and a positive planning environment Ipswich, three of the UK’s 10 fastest growing urban areas . Here you will find Highest proportion of innovation space to grow, good links to national and international markets, a talented 2. Support from commercially minded councillors and officers workforce – and an enviable quality of life. active businesses in the UK who are ‘Open for Business’ Accounts for 25% of private sector Our region combines an attractive rural landscape with elegant market 3. Easy access to world-class science and technology research R&D investment in the UK towns and thriving business communities. We’re home to fast growing centres in Norwich, Cambridge and Ipswich, all less than Second highest gross R&D expenditure enterprises at the cutting edge of manufacturing, engineering and 2-hours from London technology. Many of them operate along the rapidly developing 100km in the UK, equal to 3.36% of GDP (twice Cambridge Norwich Tech Corridor, which runs right through our district. 4. Opportunities to export to international markets via Norwich the national average of 1.67%) International Airport, London Stansted Airport, and Port of Four key technology strengths Breckland council actively invests in infrastructure and facilities that support Felixstowe, the United Kingdom’s busiest container port enterprise and improve residents’ lives. We take a pro-business attitude (according to the government’s Science to planning and driving economic growth. Read on to discover more 5. Networking across the East of England – one of the UK’s & Innovation Audit) in: Life Sciences, opportunities in Breckland – or contact our InvestBreckland team today at fastest growing regions1 investbreckland.org. Agri-tech, Advanced Materials and 6. Living in an area renowned for its natural beauty – with low Manufacturing and ICT. We look forward to helping you succeed here. crime rates, good schools, clean air, and a rich culture of history, arts, and sports, as well as delicious local food William Nunn 7. Innovation in the dynamic Cambridge Norwich Tech Leader, Breckland Council Corridor, with its related clusters of advanced manufacturing and engineering companies. 02 Invest in Breckland — Grow your Business 1 Source: Eurostat 2018 and ONS | 2 Source: Irwin Mitchell UK Powerhouse report 2018. Invest in Breckland — Grow your Business 03 Cromer The 100km Cambridge Norwich Fakenham Breckland is at the heart of the Cambridge Norwich Tech Corridor, which follows the To The Tech Corridor with good rail and road links to both Build your line of the A11, represents one of North cities. That makes it the perfect location for any the most exciting development Scottow high-growth business looking for both affordable opportunities in the UK. It connects Enterprise Park To Amsterdam office or industrial space and a strong innovation business in the two of the UK’s fastest growing King’s Lynn Schiphol Airport culture. Here you will find advanced manufacturing, A47 (1 hour) urban economies – Norwich and King’s Lynn engineering and logistics businesses, as well med-tech Cambridge – and their globally and agri-tech innovators. Innovation Centre A47 centre of the important technology and life We now have three significant clusters developing along sciences research clusters. Between Dereham Swaffham A47 the Cambridge Norwich Tech Corridor, in the south of them, these two cities are nurturing A47 Norwich A47 the district. These are around Thetford, Snetterton and a thriving ecosystem of knowledge- Cambridge Norwich Attleborough, where the focus tends to be on advanced intensive businesses and enterprise Great Research Park engineering and manufacturing. In the north, along networks that stretches across Yarmouth Hethel the A47, there’s an increasing concentration of service the region. Watton Norwich Engineering companies near Swaffham and Dereham. A11 Centre Cambridge is justifiably famous for Many engineering companies in the region are also Attleborough Tech Corridor its university and science parks, A47 benefiting from their proximity to the East of England and as a valuable tech cluster with Energy Coast. Once a major hub for servicing the North Snetterton specialisms in AI, robotics and big Sea gas fields, it is now a key part of the UK’s move to data. Norwich is also building an A11 Lowestoft renewable energy, with some of the world’s largest international reputation for the Thetford wind-farms rising out of our coastal waters. A number quality of its universities – University Thetford of global energy companies are establishing operations of East Anglia and Norwich Ely Enterprise and maintenance centres in the region, and are keen to University of the Arts – and as a Eastern Agri-Tech Park work with the local supply chain. centre for life sciences. Institutes Innovation Hub on Norwich Research Park are performing a strategically important A11 role in the study of food, soil and Suffolk Park human health and sustainability. Bury St. Edmunds Cambridge Science Park To London A14 West Suffolk (65 miles) Innovation Centre Cambridge 04 Invest in Breckland — Grow your Business Invest in Breckland — Grow your Business 05 The business community in Breckland has its roots in our strong agricultural and Business in the Advanced engineering Food processing and packaging manufacturing heritage. It DISCOVER region include and manufacturing also reflects our strategic Farms in Norfolk have an excellent reputation for location on two major roads A critical link in our regional supply chain, this sector growing high quality produce, from wheat, barley and 2 Sisters Food Group mustard, to potatoes, poultry and pork. It is hardly – the A11 and A47 – that link supports many other industries. SUCCESS IN Abel Homes surprising that we are also home to some of the UK’s biggest food processors. Two of them – Hook 2 Sisters Norfolk with the rest of the Advanced Air UK A good example of the success this brings is Warren UK. As a result, our industries Services, which has Multimatic as one of its clients. Food Group (which owns the famous Bernard Matthews Banham Poultry brand) and Cranswick plc (which also owns Crown range from food processing The company specialises in designing, machining, BRECKLAND Banham Zoo welding and fabricating high value components and Chicken) have major operations in Breckland. and packaging companies, Baxters Healthcare mechanical/electrical sub assemblies at its modern to equipment makers, facilities in Thetford. It serves clients in sectors Not only humans benefit from Norfolk’s fresh food. The Boniface vets and nutritionists at Natures Menu Ltd are Europe’s automotive specialists and as diverse as automotive, food packaging, and Bunning Agricultural Engineers construction (particularly event staging – it once leading experts in the production of raw and raw- logistics companies. inspired pet foods. The firm recently completed a £17m Camvac built a 60ft robot for a Take That concert). investment in new state of the art processing facilities at Centurion Safety Another engineering company in Thetford that Snetterton, where it now employs around 200 people. Century Logistics serves the construction industry is Trox UK. It Automotive and motor sport Logistics Other manufacturing companies in the region with links Cranswick designs and manufactures heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) technology. Over the last 50 to the food production sector include Camvac Limited If you ask motor sport fans about Norfolk, they will Businesses in Breckland benefit from excellent Foulger Transport years, it has built an outstanding reputation for design in Thetford and Ultimet Films Limited in Attleborough. almost certainly talk about the iconic Lotus racing car, connections with the rest of the UK and Europe. Johnston Logistics expertise and product innovation. Camvac was the first in Europe to produce food-contact built at Hethel. However, many will also mention days Facilitating these links are companies like Johnston grade metallised film, which significantly extends the out at the famous Snetterton motor racing circuit, Logistics UK, at Snetterton, and Century Logistics, with Lee & Plumpton Meanwhile, in Attleborough, Eastern Attachments shelf life of fresh and processed foods. Ultimet is a owned by ex-FI driver Jonathan Palmer. As well as multiple sites in East Anglia, including Thetford. Motorsport Vision designs and fabricates loader attachments for leading supplier of vacuum-coated metallised films used hosting various races throughout the year, it is used by Multimatic agricultural and construction vehicles. It specialises in in a range of industrial applications, including packaging many leading motorsport manufacturers as a test track. Johnston provides bonded warehousing and using low alloy steels with greater yield strength and for snacks, ready meals and pet food. fulfilment services to a range of clients including major Natures Menu resistance to deformation than standard mild steels.