Locate East Sussex Presentation to Wealden Economic Partnership Tuesday 14 January 2014

Contents  What we do  Who we are  How we work  Future engagement  Growing business

What we do Locate East Sussex is an innovative service for growing businesses that:  offers assistance with location decisions  provides access to funding to accelerate growth  makes valuable connections to local planning and economic development teams

Who we are Adam Berger Geoff Mann Philip Johnson

How we work  establishing team and systems  building a presence with stakeholders, intermediaries and companies  creating collateral  developing marketing plans

Presence  35 meetings held with property owners/developers/accountants/agents  over 50 enquiries handled with 10 on-going

Collateral

 brand

Collateral  response card  brand

Collateral  exhibitions and events  response card  brand

Collateral  PR  exhibitions and events  response card  brand

Collateral  social media  PR  exhibitions and events  response card  brand

Collateral  website  social media  PR  exhibitions and events  response card  brand

Collateral  videos  website  social media  PR  exhibitions and events  response card  brand

What we do  assistance with location decisions  access to funding for growth  connections to planning and economic development teams

Access to funding for growth investment in -capital equipment -premises upgrade - incubation space

Growing business  food producer relocating from Brighton safeguarding 16 jobs and creating 18 jobs  waste energy recovery manufacturer creating 60 jobs over 2 years  start-up gym creating 6 jobs  IT system distributor creating 4 jobs

Future engagement

Networks  partners  intermediaries  agents  chambers  EEF and IoD  FE and HE

Clusters  vacuum  optics  industrial pumps  scientific instruments  viticulture, vinification and brewing  clean tech  financial services  linguistics  care

Locations  Newhaven  wind farm development  waste to energy facility  port investment  University Technical College  new businesses moving in  growing enterprise centre  developing services

Places  Brighton  Crawley  East Grinstead  Haywards Heath  Tunbridge Wells  Tonbridge  Ashford  Folkstone

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