Norwich - A developing City

The economy

Norwich City Council is involved in a wide range of activities to support the Norwich economy. Overall the economy is thriving. The City has the largest clusters of financial services and creative industries in the Eastern Region and Norwich is one of the top ten retail centres in the UK. While redundancies and closures are very sad, they reflect structural changes in the economy rather than a down turn.

The Norwich Economy Round Table, a private/sector partnership driven by local business, has created an Economic Strategy for Norwich to cover the period 2003-2008.

Click here to download a copy of the Economic Strategy

The Strategy focuses on:

• Developing enterprise
• Ensuring that Norwich people have the appropriate skills and job opportunities
• Developing a better infrastructure for businesses
• Raising Norwich’s profile as a business location

The aim is to ensure that Norwich is recognised as the business capital of the East. The City Council has developed a range of marketing materials which are available to local businesses for them to use for recruitments purposes and to promote the City.

Click here for a district profile of the Norwich City Council area