Sectors

East Kent is a particularly suitable and attractive business location for companies from a number of key sectors. A skilled, flexible and motivated workforce ensures the ready availability of wide-ranging expertise.

Contact centres - operating costs are 60% cheaper than prime lcoations in London.

Logistics - a focal base for around 25% of the whole of Kent's transport sector.

Manufacturing - employing 11,000 people in around 750 companies.

Engineering - East Kent is renowned for its ports and marine engineering, a signifiant emerging sector.

Life Sciences - a key European location for healthcare technology and life sciences.

Aviation - home to almost a third of aviation companies, over half of Kent's workforce in the sector.

ICT - 500 Information and Communications Technology (‘ICT') companies.

Renewables - location for the £2.3 billion London Array project, an off-shore wind farm.

Media - an emerging cluster with supporting media academic excellence at the University of Kent.

East Kent is actively investing in these sectors to stimulate economic growth and encourage higher value added business.

Thousands of jobs have been created in East Kent in recent years and these figures are set to increase. What's more, companies investing in some parts of East Kent may be eligible for financial assistance. East Kent is a place where business can benefit now and the future.