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| Why London? |
London is the world’s best-connected business city. It gives business quick and easy access to global, European and national markets. London’s five international airports offer direct flights to 273 destinations worldwide. The London Internet Exchange (LINX) is the world’s largest Internet hub and the transit point for much of Europe’s Internet traffic. |
| With its cultural and ethnic diversity and entrepreneurial business culture, London attracts expanding companies from all over the world. |
| Major corporations, business start-ups and entrepreneurs are all keen to access the city’s markets, capital and talent pool. The London Stock Exchange is the world’s largest international exchange with a $1470 billion yearly turnover of foreign equities - more than New York and Tokyo combined. |
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| There are over 200 foreign-owned law firms with offices in London. |
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| Unsurpassed global and national connections |
| At the centre of the international time zones, at the hub of transcontinental routes, and as a gateway to the EU London was voted Europe’s most internationally accessible city in 2004. |
London was voted best European city for telecommunications links in 2004 and ranks 1st in the global network connectivity index of international service firms. |
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London’s five international airports are the world’s busiest, handling over 120 million airline passengers a year and flying to 273 cities worldwide |
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| Heathrow is the world’s busiest international airport handling over 64 million international passengers each year. London has unrestricted access to the European Union, the largest single market in the world with over 450 million members. Since the launch of the Eurostar high-speed rail service, Paris and Brussels can be reached in just over two hours. The Port of London is one of Europe’s largest sea freight centre handling over 50 million tonnes of cargo a year. London has one of the world’s largest over-ground/underground rail networks, moving some four million people every day – more than any other European city. |
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Over 1 million people enter central London in the morning rush hour on a typical weekday. |
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| There are almost 21,000 licensed taxis and a further 2,300 licensed minicab operators in London. |
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| Vibrant multi-cultural city |
| One in four Londoner’s are from an ethnic minority background.London has resident communities of over 10,000 people from 34 countries.Food from around 70 different countries and regions is available in London’s 12,000 restaurants.London is a city of gastronomic delights with 36 Michelin-starred restaurants |
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| International and ambitious business culture |
| Consistently ranked by independent studies as the best place to locate a business in Europe, one third of the Fortune Global 500 has their European headquarters in London.
London is the undisputed city leader for Foreign Direct Investment in Europe, creating global investment of £38 billion ($70 billion) and one in seven jobs for the London economy. London continues to attract the most ambitious individuals from within the UK and internationally, creating a unique labour pool with linguistic talent that covers over 300 foreign languages. |
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London doesn’t just think international; it is international, with foreign owned companies accounting for one quarter of all businesses in London. |
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| London is an international political and diplomatic centre; 175 of the UN’s 191 member countries have embassies in London, and London is the home of the Commonwealth. |
| World-class support and facilities |
London’s business services sector is vast and still growing: one in three jobs in London is in financial or business services. |
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London plays an important role in business support through its professional services sector, which accounts for nearly one third of all private practice law firms in England & Wales and well over a third of private practice solicitors. |
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| London is a city of rich, creative talent, with a marketing services sector that employs over 100,000 people.London is a world-class centre for research, attracting nearly a quarter of all UK higher education research income and nearly three quarters of all NHS research.19 of the top 25 software and services suppliers have their headquarters in London and all 25 have a presence.London offers an unrivalled selection of diverse properties and has more fully-serviced offices than any other city in the world.London’s reputation as the most productive capital in Europe is supported by the highest GDP per head in the whole of the EU - 46% higher than the UK national average. |
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| Stability as a foundation for creativity |
| London is Europe’s leading financial centre, and one of the top three financial centres in the world.
London conducts over half of all the European Union’s investment banking services. The majority of the UK’s 6,000 computer games developers are based in the London area. |
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525,000 people in London work either directly in the Creative Industries or in creative occupations in other industries.
London’s cultural sector is economically huge, generating an estimated £25 billion ($45 billion) per annum. 72% of Londoners “strongly agree” that London’s creative and cultural resources improve their quality of life. |
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| London was the first city in Europe to experience the roll out of 3G services. |
| An unrivalled talent pool |
Year after year London continues to attract more than its fair share of gifted and highly qualified individuals, which is why it has been voted top city in Europe for access to qualified staff for the 16th year running. London has the largest regional workforce in Europe at over 9 million, with over one third holding a university degree |
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| London attracts around 750,000 commuters from outside of the region, accounting for just under a fifth of London’s total employment of 3.5 million. |
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London is a city of academic excellence; home to 42 Higher Education Institutions and 53 further and higher education colleges it currently attracts over 60,000 overseas students. London is successful not only in retaining well over half of its own graduates, it also attracts one fifth of all UK postgraduate students looking to establish their careers or set up businesses. |
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| London is the world’s best gateway to international markets, including the 450 million people in the European Union, the biggest single market in the world. Many of the international companies who locate in the capital use it as their launch point for European or global expansion. |
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| Limitless economic opportunity |
| London is a global city with limitless economic opportunity, generating a massive £166 billion ($300 billion) of GVA a year, nearly one fifth of the UK total.London’s commuter population spend over £11 billion ($20 billion) a year of their income within the rest of the UK - supporting more jobs outside of London than exist within the capital’s advertising and designer fashion sectors combined. London’s economic importance to the rest of the UK is immense, contributing between £7.5 billion ($13.5 billion) and £17.5 billion ($32 billion) to the nation as a whole.London is Europe’s financial capital, with nearly 2,000 UK headquartered companies listed on the London markets producing an aggregate market capitalisation of nearly £1.4 trillion ($2.5 trillion). |
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