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Business Strengths

Proven Strengths and New Opportunities

Greater Grimsby has established supply-chains in key industries such as:

As well as a host of rich emerging opportunities in:

We have many great names that have become an important part of local life. The UK’s number one seafood company, Young’s, has its global headquarters in Grimsby. The likes of Novartis, ConocoPhillips, Ciba and Siemens all have major facilities in the area.

These companies benefit from the well-functioning and overlapping supply-chains here. With around 500 food-related firms and hundreds of logistics and engineering businesses, there’s always plenty of opportunities for new businesses.

For ambitious companies, Greater Grimsby offers a platform for growth, innovation and partnering with market leaders. Local start-up businesses can access the expertise and support of global players in a way that would not be possible in a large city.

Tremendous opportunities in the field of renewable energy, especially offshore wind, wave and tidal power and bioenergy, will create the green collar jobs of the future. Not for the first time in its rich history, the Grimsby area stands to benefit from its coastal position.

Whether it is leading the world in cutting-edge food cell research, developing innovative packaging and storage solutions or manufacturing drugs that help combat diabetes, Greater Grimsby is set to be at the heart of new opportunities across a range of sectors.

Media and Design Excellence Greater Grimsby is an emerging centre of digital media, with a hotbed of talented young people, award-winning companies and state-of-the-art facilities. Greater Grimsby offers: the area’s largest TV studi...

Food Town, Food People Greater Grimsby has one of the largest concentrations of food manufacturing, research, storage and distribution in Europe. As ‘Europe’s Food Town’, we have: around 500 food-related companies th...

UK’s Biggest Port Opportunities The Port of Grimsby and Immingham is the UK’s largest port by tonnage. Benefiting from a prime deep-water location on the Humber Estuary, one of Europe’s busiest trade routes, it plays a central r...

From Chemicals to Biotech Greater Grimsby is at the centre of a major concentration of process industries, which in the wider Humber region employs around 15,000 people in 120 companies. The process industries are incredibly diverse and include p...

Offshore Wind Hub Greater Grimsby is emerging as a key player in the renewable energy revolution with potential to become the UK capital of the offshore wind industry. Greater Grimsby offers: direct access to the world’s biggest off...