The city has a successful Business Services sector offering financial and professional services with leading commercial law firms, accountants, management consultants and recruitment companies. It also has contact centres located here providing services to local companies with national and international reputations, with particular specialisms within the marine sector.

A variety of services provided to businesses, including banking, insurance, accountancy, legal, consultancy, commercial property, recruitment, machinery rental, computing, security and cleaning services.

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Please note: The Sector Factsheets have not yet been updated to provide new details for each sector. This is due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the unprecedented events of the last year resulting in the Office of National Statistics (ONS) having to delay the release of a variety of data due to their work on tracking the outbreak. As such, we have been unable to update the statistics used within these Sector Factsheets. As soon as the data becomes available from ONS we will work to rapidly update all of the accompanying statistics and provide the complete picture. We really do appreciate your patience and urge you to sign up to the Invest newsletter; here we will update subscribers as soon as the new data is released.

Plymouth Business School

Based within the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business, Plymouth Business School is one of the largest in the University of Plymouth, offering a wide range of undergraduate, taught postgraduate and research degrees. Core areas including: accounting, economics, finance, marketing, human resources and business management are offered at all levels, as are more specialist areas in international shipping, logistics, operations, tourism and events management. With over 150 PhD and DBA students there is a thriving research culture and Plymouth Business School engages directly with hundreds of private, public and third sector organisations and alumni annually to ensure the mutual benefits of real world engagement and meaningful networks are realised for our community and partners.

The Plymouth Law Society

The Plymouth Law Society represents solicitors in the Plymouth travel to work area.

Committed to maintaining the standards of the profession in the city and beyond through training, sharing of best practice, or providing a collective voice for their members.

Devon Chamber of Commerce

The Chamber is the leading independent business representative group in Devon whose fundamental purpose is to improve the environment for doing business in Devon and the South West peninsula.

The Chamber works in three major spheres of influence from which your business can benefit:

• In the macro economics and business community of Plymouth and surrounding regions.

• Helping you build your business through a structured (but non-compulsory) programme of networking and business events.

• By being the source and conduit of crucial business information and intelligence.

The Chamber also chairs the British Chambers of Commerce South West (BCCSW) and administrate PABC Plymouth Area Business Council (PABC).

The Chamber provides international trade training and documentation services.

The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB)

FSB is the UK’s largest grassroots campaigning group promoting and protecting the interests of small business owners and the self-employed.

FSB has a powerful voice in Government at UK, national and local level, representing members’ views to Ministers, Government Departments, MPs, MEPs, MSPs, Assembly Members, Councillors and Local Enterprise Partnerships.

Established in 1974, FSB is a not-for-profit and non-party political organisation that is led by members, for members.

FSB offers members a wide range of vital business services including advice, financial expertise and support. These cover a wide range of benefits such as tax, legal and HR, local network groups, access to funding and business banking.

DELT Shared Services Ltd

Delt is a truly innovative shared services partnership, working in the public, private and third sectors. Delt provides managed IT services, IT, data and cyber security consultancy, payroll and pension management services, print and mail management, HR and procurement. Working quietly behind the scenes Delt helps its partners and clients do amazing things.

A Teckal company that at the end of last financial year evidenced a smarter alternative to outsourcing, by putting £10 million back into the South West economy that would have been lost through traditional outsourcing.

Delivering better, faster and cheaper solutions, making use of economies of scale and a more commercial approach to contract negotiation and management; Delt’s turnover in 2019 is projected to be £20 million+ with a new business pipeline across the whole South West that could see significant and ongoing revenue growth.

Connectivity

Plymouth has good broadband connection and is in the top 10 locations in the country for superfast broadband and fifth best for ultrafast broadband. It has the largest free outdoor Wi-Fi network available in the South West.

A healthy supplier marketplace to make cutting edge connectivity competitive.

Plymouth has high take up of broadband and a skilled workforce with high levels of IT skills.

A world class data centre facility is being developed in Plymouth through a private/public consortium.

Connected Plymouth is committed to maintaining Plymouth’s leading digital position.

Key businesses in the city

• Bishop Fleming
• Brights Solicitors
• Capita
• Delt Shared Services
• Devon Chambers
• Foot Anstey
• HM Land Registry
• KPMG
• Nash & Co Solicitors
• NJ Akers & Co
• Pertemps
• PKF Francis Clark
• Sitel
• PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC)
• Vickery Holman
• Wolferstans LLP
• Womble Bond Dickinson