The Western Daily Press Business Guide 2023 is published today and features the top 150 companies in the West. It is published in association with BusinessLive.
The Guide, which has been published each January for nearly 30 years, contains analysis of the region’s economic prospects in 2023 and a celebration of its achievements in 2022. Its headline sponsor is EDF Energy Hinkley Point C, which is developing Britain’s first new nuclear power station in a generation on the Somerset coast
South Bristol-based Imperial Brands was ranked as the region’s biggest business by turnover, with the tobacco giant joined in the top five by St James’s Place, Intel’s European arm, which is based in Swindon, Dyson and Ovo.
Western Daily Press editor Richard Bache said: “The Business Guide is our flagship annual publication and we are thrilled to champion the region’s business community.
“As well as celebrating the region’s businesses that are household names we also promote up-and-coming companies that could be the future stars of the West. Although nobody is pretending that 2023 will be an easy year for the economy, I think it is important that we don’t talk ourselves into a recession.
“Within the Western Daily Press Business Guide there are scores of companies that are doing exceptional things and showing us how to thrive. Despite the headwinds that we face, there are genuine opportunities for businesses to find sustainable growth.”
The Guide also contains features on some of the most important sector’s of the region’s economy – including aerospace, agriculture and tech. It also calls on the region’s business and political communities to unite so that we can present a stronger voice in Westminster.
Business leaders are gathering at Aerospace Bristol on Thursday morning (January 26) for the Guide’s launch.
To read in the Guide in full, visit https://issuu.com/reachsolutions/docs/wdp_business_guide_2023
