why Portsmouth for your business enterprise
A prime location for business innovation and enterprise
Portsmouth is a modern and dynamic city that offers a prime location for industry, commerce, leisure and pleasure. It is home to over 6,500 businesses including leading edge companies such as EADS Astrium, IBM UK, Pall Europe and McLaren Composites.
Portsmouth is also a waterfront city surrounded by the sea which has shaped its history and its culture for centuries, a modern city with a distinctive culture that has edge and attitude pride and passion.
In a few words 'A breath of fresh air'.
A great place to grow your business
Portsmouth is also a great place to start-up or grow a business enterprise, with a whole host of organisations available to support and advise smaller Portsmouth businesses, for which more information can be found here.
Turning passion into prosperity, The City Growth Portsmouth strategy board led a process of research, consultation and strategy building with a several hundred of Portsmouth's 6,500 businesses.
City Growth is a market-based approach to urban revitalisation that recognises sustainable economic development in deprived areas will only be achieved by building a competitive business environment that generates jobs, income and wealth opportunities.
Portsmouth businesses benefit from great transport links, with the M275 linking to the M3 via the M27.
Southampton Airport aims to be the local airport you can breeze through, welcoming nearly two million passengers a year and is only 25 minutes away by car.
There are also regular rail services to London, Southampton and the south east and south west costal routes. For more information on rail services, visit the National Rail web site.
Various ferry services are also available to the Isle of Wight, and further afield from Southampton.
A good network of bus services are also available in and around the City.
Contact details
Kingston Crescent
Portsmouth
PO2 8FA
tel +44 (0)23 9265 8200
fax +44 (0)23 9265 8201
