Brighton 2nd best city after greater London in total of new businesses formed in 2013

[easynow]

by population size...

 

[Bry Nylon]

All hail the eastern European hand car wash.

 

[easynow]

London and South East Britain’s entrepreneurial power house

Birmingham top performing city outside of South East

Manchester is entrepreneurial hot spot of the North

High level of new businesses recorded in South Yorkshire, the Midlands and Scotland

British entrepreneurs created a record number of new businesses in 2013, according to new figures from StartUp Britain announced today/January 27.

Research from the national enterprise campaign shows 526,446 businesses were registered with Companies House, beating the 484,224 businesses recorded in 2012, and 440,600 in 2011.

Top performers on the regional entrepreneurial map according to post code include Greater London with 136,939 businesses registered beating the rest of the country by far - with its nearest rival Birmingham at 16,281 and Manchester at 11,765.

Emma Jones, co-founder of StartUp Britain said: “We’ve been looking at these figures carefully for three years since the campaign began and it’s clear the UK’s start-up community is growing year-on-year.

“These figures are raw and hot off the press but the new regional statistics reveal a power house in the South East and London – which is what we were expecting - but there are also impressive pockets of entrepreneurial activity in the North West, South Yorkshire, the Midlands and Scotland.”

http://www.startupbritain.co/news/2014-01-26/new-figures-reveal-regional-entrepreneurial-hotspots

 

[TomandJerry]

All hail the eastern European hand car wash.

They do a good job, though

 

[Machiavelli]

And there I was being relentlessly subjected to claims on NSC that the Green minority council were anti-business and ruining the city in the face of massive cuts imposed by the central government.

 

[Dan Aitch]

'Greater London' is a city?

 

[easynow]

'Greater London' is a city?

Yes.

 

[symyjym]

But we also have a high business failure rate.

The figures place Brighton and Hove among the bottom ten cities in the country for so-called business “deaths”.

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/10520764.Brighton_and_Hove_business_failure_rate__inevitable_/

 

[Peter Grummit]

by population size...

Data measured by postcode. BN postcode extends from Littlehampton to Pevensey including whole of Lewes district. Was the population denominator measured on the same basis?

Remember many 'business start-ups' are people made redundant and unable to get secure employment.

PG

 

[mikeyjh]

It's not though is it? Wouldn't it be behind Stockport, Warrington, Harrow, Chelmsford, Tonbridge etc etc etc?

 

[Vegas Seagull]

Data measured by postcode. BN postcode extends from Littlehampton to Pevensey including whole of Lewes district. Was the population denominator measured on the same basis?

Remember many 'business start-ups' are people made redundant and unable to get secure employment.

PG

A postcode is 6 digits, why pick the first 2 when it could well have used the 3rd, isolating Central Brighton for example

 

[spring hall convert]

How can this be? I thought the Green council and MP were vehemently anti-business.

Must be a mistake.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

It takes very little effort to register a company and many are registered by holding companies for sale as off the shelf companies.

The amount of companies registered is no measure of success at all - sensible questions would have been, out of all those registered how many are actually trading and of those how many are trading successfully. An utterly pointless bit of research.

 

[Deleted member 22389]

It takes very little effort to register a company and many are registered by holding companies for sale as off the shelf companies.

The amount of companies registered is no measure of success at all - sensible questions would have been, out of all those registered how many are actually trading and of those how many are trading successfully. An utterly pointless bit of research.

Correct, or how many people are these companies employing. How many of these jobs are at zero hour contract, minimum wage.

 

[Vegas Seagull]

It takes very little effort to register a company and many are registered by holding companies for sale as off the shelf companies.

The amount of companies registered is no measure of success at all - sensible questions would have been, out of all those registered how many are actually trading and of those how many are trading successfully. An utterly pointless bit of research.

Incorrect.
It is a fair measure as it compares apples with apples ie same measure for each town
House price increases have put B&H 2nd behind London providing again supporting the statistics

 

[Vegas Seagull]

Correct, or how many people are these companies employing. How many of these jobs are at zero hour contract, minimum wage.

Start up companies are not Sports Direct, more thought Reqd before cliched posting

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Incorrect.
It is a fair measure as it compares apples with apples ie same measure for each town
House price increases have put B&H 2nd behind London providing again supporting the statistics

Rubbish - so if a certain town / city happens to have a company ( or more than one ) that registers company names for off the shelf purchase they are suddenly successful ? Of course not.

 

[beorhthelm]

Incorrect.
It is a fair measure as it compares apples with apples ie same measure for each town
House price increases have put B&H 2nd behind London providing again supporting the statistics

it might be apples and apples, but those apples are merely company addresses registered with companies house. its pretty meaningless and doesnt really say how many businesses are being formed at all - one business might setup several Ltd companies, another might be a sole trade with no Ltd registered. be more interested to see some stats from local councils on business rates or from HMCE on NI contributors.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

It takes very little effort to register a company and many are registered by holding companies for sale as off the shelf companies.

The amount of companies registered is no measure of success at all - sensible questions would have been, out of all those registered how many are actually trading and of those how many are trading successfully. An utterly pointless bit of research.

True. And I was reading recently that there has been a big increase in companies not employing people directly, which in turn has seen a sharp increase in former PAYE employees moving over to self-employed status and limited companies etc.

 

[Czechmate]

Well I am one of those that started up in 2013 , still going fortunately

From the BN post code that is .