City Facts
- Liverpool is the UK’s fastest growing economy outside London, Source: ONS 2010
- Liverpool is the UK’s second largest wealth management centre, Source: ComPeer 2010 (Companies in the city, eg, Coutts, Deutsche Bank, Rathbones, Rensburg Sheppards manage assets in excess of £12bn)
- Liverpool is Europe’s most successful ever Capital of Culture, Source: Jose Manuel Barroso 2009
- Liverpool has three world class universities which are internationally recognised, Source: Financial Times 2008
- Environmental Technology is one of Liverpool’s fastest-growing sectors, Source: ARUP, 2010
- Liverpool is one of the UK’s top three biomedical centres, Source: TMP 2008
- Liverpool has the UK’s fastest growing airport, Source: RDC Aviation 2010
- Liverpool is in the Premier League of UK retail centres, Source: CACI 2010 (ranked 5th)
- Liverpool is one the top visitor destinations in the UK, Source: Conde Nast Awards, 2010 (voted in top 5 UK city break destinations for the second successive year)
- The Port of Liverpool is the largest Freeport zone in the UK, Source: Dept of Transport, 2009
- Liverpool is a major European centre for advanced manufacturing, Source: Financial Times, 2008 (calibre of companies it attracts, eg: Jaguar/Landrover, Novartis)
- Liverpool is the least expensive UK city for office occupancy costs, Source: DTZ, 2008 (20-30% lower than major competitors)
- Liverpool has seen a GVA growth of 5.5% per annum between 1998-2008 with an 11% increase in the number of businesses during that time, Source: ONS 2010 ]
- Liverpool’s Business District has seen the development of 1.3m sq ft of grade A new and refurbished space in the last 5 years
- Grosvenor’s £1 billion retail-led Liverpool One development is one of the largest of its kind in Europe
- Peel are planning a £5.5 billion waterfront development to compare with Dubai, Vancouver, New York and Shanghai
- Liverpool’s Knowledge Quarter has world leading businesses in health and life sciences and generates £1b a year to the city’s economy, Source: Regeneris
- Liverpool’s School of Tropical Medicine is a world leader and has recently expanded with £25m funding from the Bill Gates Foundation
- Liverpool City Region has one of the highest student retention rates in the UK, with six out of ten students staying in employment in the city
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