Growth Planning
Our Freeport business support offer has been designed to ensure that businesses choosing to start-up or grow within our employment land tax sites at South Yard, Langage and Sherford are supported every step of the way.
From initial enquiry to growth and expansion planning, we are committed to ensuring your business achieves its ambitions.
We will provide the following services to Freeport tenants:
Account management – a dedicated account manager will support you by facilitating site visits, making relevant introductions with key stakeholders locally and nationally, providing tailored business specific data relating to workforce availability, quality of life, and cost of doing business within the wider Plymouth and South Devon Freeport region.
Property solutions – our team will work with you and/or your commercial agents to identify the best land and property solution for your business now, and in the future.
Networking support – benefit from introductions to relevant membership organisations including Devon Chamber and Plymouth Manufacturers Group.
Recruitment support – we will support recruitment campaigns, workforce development and upskilling through our skills provider network. Freeport businesses can take advantage of dedicated marketing and communication channels as tools for their own recruitment.
International decision makers – working alongside central Government account managers we will provide sector specific market intelligence including benchmarking of key performance indicators, cost of doing business, availability of workforce, and sector profiling.
Finance and funding support – we will identify funding opportunities and ensure businesses are kept up to date with sector specific opportunities.
Local intelligence and information sharing – we will provide you with local intelligence including the area’s school systems, housing market and key cost of living indicators to support decision making for your employees, now and in the future.
International exposure – as one of twelve UK Freeports we work closely with central Government to promote investment opportunities across the world.
Dedicated marketing and communications – we will work with Freeport tenants to market their offer through case studies, digital and social media, and press/PR. A Plymouth and South Devon Freeport branding package will be made available to all tenants, and this will include all relevant branding assets and marketing collateral required to promote the Freeport and the wider UK Freeport programme.
Aftercare services – we will provide excellent aftercare to businesses landing in the Freeport through the continued delivery of a Business Relationship Programme (BRP) working with key Department for Business and Trade account managers. Aftercare services will include ongoing networking and signposting into opportunities of interest such as Innovate UK schemes and DBT’s wide-reaching export focused initiatives.
Contact the Plymouth and South Devon Freeport team