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

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

3. 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

4. Who we are Adam Berger Geoff Mann Philip Johnson

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

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

7. Collateral

8.  brand

9. Collateral  response card  brand

10. Collateral  exhibitions and events  response card  brand

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

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

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

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

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

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

17. 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

18. Future engagement

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

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

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

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

23. thank you…and… philip.johnson@locateeastsussex.org.uk