The commercial life of Liverpool has developed over the centuries. Originally a small fishing port, it has become one of the great ports of the world. Now, as is the case with many large cities that developed during and after the industrial revolution, Liverpool acknowledges that some of its old industries have disappeared and others are changed forever. With this attitude, the city is promoting itself as a city that national and international companies want to invest. Examples of industrial and commercial life of the redevelopment of Liverpool.
Liverpool has for many decades had companies from the automotive industry who work there. The Ford Halewood plant employs just under 1,000 people and is currently used as an assembly plant for vehicles and Jaguar X-Type production Getrag transmission system for Fiesta, Fusion and Transit models. The largest car plant in Liverpool is currently the GM plant in Ellesmere Port, which opened in June 1964 to produce the Vauxhall Viva. The plant is currently used to produce models of the Vauxhall / Opel Astra and its 5,500 employees produce about 180,000 vehicles annually.
as an important port in the UK, importing food and beverages through Liverpool inevitably leads to the growth of food and beverage companies in the region. Almost a specialty of Liverpool was the sugar trade of the West Indies, it is hardly surprising that The Billington Food Group, which import and trading of sugar, should be located in Liverpool. Convenient for transatlantic Canadian trade port of Liverpool was also convenient for salmon landing fish; then in the 1880s, Simpson and Roberts founded the Princes Foods Company, a name synonymous with canned fish products in the UK. The company now deals in a range of food and with a turnover of £ 750 million a year the company plays an important role in the local economy Liverpool. Another well-known national food name is Jacobs, Cream Cracker fame. Now part of United Biscuits still has a major production plant in Aintree with Business Center Groups in Binns Road in the city.
Financial and professional services represent more than 20% of gross domestic product Merseyside. Liverpool city offers the perfect center for these operations for networking and rapid development. Among the most famous names in these sectors with bases in Liverpool are - in accounting Deloitte and Touche, Earnst and Young, KPMG and Price Waterhouse Coopers. In finance - Coutts and the insurance company best known in Liverpool is the Royal Liver Insurance Services. Now a company of books of billions, it was founded in 1850 primarily to give the poor the opportunity to ensure that they could afford a decent burial for their loved ones. The success of their company in 1911, they had built and moved into the Royal Liver building, Pier Head, who became a symbol for the whole city to achieve iconic status for residents of Liverpool . Liverpool has become a magnet for call centers based in the UK with companies as large and diverse as BT, United Airways, Barclays Direct Loan Service, Norwich Union Direct and Swiss Life while being located there.
The Merseyside region is well known as the home of the petrochemical companies with ICI having a large factory across the Wirral, Cheshire. GlaxcoSmithKline is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies / Life Sciences with a base at Liverpool. Others include Novartis and ML Laboratories around Warrington. In total, life sciences companies employ over 4,000 people in the region.
Across Merseyside nearly 2,000 people are employed in the creative industries of music, cinema, theater. The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts attracts students from all over the country to study in world-class facilities. The expansion of media companies that want to use Liverpool resulted in the operation hall of an office to support Liverpool Film and film events coordination. Liverpool is also the home of lime pictures produced "Hollyoaks" alongside other well-known national television programs. Telecommunications and ICT companies bring in about £ 1 billion to the local economy each year. The continued growth in this sector is one of the key factors behind the regeneration of Liverpool. BT, Cable & Wireless and Marconi are among the companies with regional development centers.
An industry changed dramatically from what it was 20 years ago is the marine industry Liverpool. So only now employs 6,000 people, against nearly 40,000 in the early 20th century, the port of Liverpool is the third largest port in the UK by tonnage handled and is in the top 10 ports in Northern Europe container. While the days of large ocean liners docking in Liverpool are the port is still used by P & O Ferries for its routes to and from Ireland.
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