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One Year On: London is still going for gold 2 Aug 2013 | 02:09 pm
It has been one year since London’s golden summer, when the capital played host to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, welcoming the world to experience the best in sport and culture. Everyone agr...
Mayor of London invests £1.1m to create “Med City”, a world-class medical hub 26 Jul 2013 | 01:55 pm
London’s credentials as a world-leading medical hub are to receive a boost, as the Mayor of London approves £1.1m of investment into the capital’s “Med City”. Mayor Boris Johnson’s goal is to mirror ...
London has attracted more than £4 billion of FDI since the London 2012 Games 19 Jul 2013 | 06:06 pm
London has reaped £4 billion of foreign investment since the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Mayor of London Boris Johnson says that London’s long-term legacy plans are “firmly on track” as...
London ranked as top place to set up new businesses 16 Jul 2013 | 03:58 pm
Seventeen of the top 20 areas for new business generation are located in London – further proof that London is the gateway to the rest of Britain and Europe for businesses. The research, by accountan...
London & Partners opens new Touchdown centre at the Thames Innovation Centre 15 Jul 2013 | 03:47 pm
London & Partners has opened a new Touchdown London centre at the Thames Innovation Centre in the London Borough of Bexley, Kent. Touchdown London centres make it easy for international companies to...
London’s tech, media and telecoms sector creates £125 billion of economic value 9 Jul 2013 | 08:53 pm
London boasts a world-class advertising industry and has one of the largest creative markets in the world. The city’s technology, media and telecoms (TMT) sector employs more than 440,000 people and a...
London regeneration projects boost UK foreign investment 3 Jul 2013 | 05:00 pm
A flurry of multi-billion pound urban regeneration projects in London helped boost foreign investment in the UK last year, in contrast to a decline in the rest of Europe. Figures from the UN showed t...
A new brick in the wall: Asian investor transforms London icon 25 Jun 2013 | 03:32 pm
An Asian investor is transforming London’s famous Battersea Power Station. The investment by a Malaysian investment consortium highlights London’s growing popularity with Asian investors who are choo...
London & Partners 2012 Review: FDI 19 Jun 2013 | 03:39 pm
From working with large firms such as telecoms group Telefónica or BBVA, Spain’s second-largest bank, to early-stage companies, such as mobile payment startup iZettle and job site GulfTalent.com, Lond...
Open door to London’s booming data industry 14 Jun 2013 | 07:20 pm
Ambitious companies have been invited to exploit the ‘open data’ boom in London. The city is regarded as a world leader in open data, where vast caches of information are unlocked to create services s...