Business and professional services

The city's long-term strategy is to create 11,500 new jobs in business services including:

• accountants
• lawyers
• civil servants
• finance
• property
• IT experts

The city has a diverse range of company size, expertise and specialist knowledge within each of the service sectors and offers the opportunity of working for companies that provide services to local companies with national and international reputations. Other companies across the sector have their own regional and national presence and deliver these from their Plymouth offices.

The service sector is well placed to assist in the growth of the south west using local people and by successfully attracting professionals from London and other cities who see the ability to provide quality services to a diverse regional and national client base while achieving a lifestyle other regions cannot match.

The local and regional economy is truly eclectic, with Babcock, Princess Yachts, Eden and Wrigleys at one end of the scale and micro-renewable and start-up businesses at the other requiring quality assistance from the service sector.

The city provides a mix of historic and modern premises which can be used to provide the sector’s operations and is actively seeking to develop further accommodation to meet the service and other sectors’ demands.