Welcome to the second edition of Brent Business News, produced by Brent Council’s Employer Partnership to provide information to the business community in order to help increase and sustain business growth within the borough. This edition lets you know more about the range of free services available to businesses via the borough's business support agencies, and brings you more analysis on local business market intelligence giving you a snapshot of the economic environment here in Brent. We hope you find this e-newsletter and its content helpful. If you have any comments or suggestions on how we can better improve this service, we’d be pleased to hear from you. Please contact Alka Nepali at alka.nepali@brent.gov.uk or call on 020 8937 1074.
Now available on the Employer Partnership website:
Links to pages on the Council’s website to key articles and news items. To go to the Employer Partnership website click the following link:
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How to help your business.
There is help and advice available locally to improve your business. Much of this is free. Help is available on how to franchise or license your business, how to improve your environmental rating, how to write effective business plans and many more issues affecting your business. To find out more click the following link:
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For entrepreneurship...for innovation...for job creation. Why Brent needs a dense business base.
Brent has fewer businesses per 10,000 working age persons (business density) than London and Great Britain. It is no suprise that Brent has proportionately fewer businesses than London ( the region has the highest business density in the UK), but we would expect to find proportionately more than Great Britain. Why is business density so important?
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Does your company operate in one of the three specialist strengths in Brent?
There are 15,350 people working in 2,250 workplaces in specialisms in Brent. Specialisms are geographic concentrations of interconnected businesses, suppliers, and associated institutions.Strong specialisms encourage high productivity (Gross Value Added) and are accompanied by (for example) high levels of innovation. What are Brent's specialisms?
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There are more professionals living in Brent than local industry requires…
Market intelligence recently highlighted the difference bewteen the occupations of residents living in Brent and those required by local industry. Ideally Brent would be self sufficient; that is, to create a situation where residents have the skills and qualifications to fill the jobs that exist in Brent.
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