Slough means business
Sitting at the entrance to the thriving Thames Valley, Slough is one of the economic success stories of the south-east.
- Approximately 3,000 businesses in Slough, employing 75,000 people
- Unemployment is low – currently just over two per cent
- 35-40,000 commuters travel into Slough every day to work
- Schools in Slough are amongst the most improved in the country
- Thames Valley has the highest concentration of educated people in the UK
- Slough Trading Estate is the largest privately-owned trading estate in Europe and provides 20,000 jobs and 400 businesses
- Household names such as Masterfoods (formerly Mars Confectionery) joined more recently by such major players as Polycom and O2
- Other commercial areas - Langley Business Park, Langley Business Centre and Poyle Industrial Estate
- To encourage smaller enterprises, we've established three sites of industrial starter units - some offer reduced rents in the first years of lease
- The construction of Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport is expected to bring 5,000 additional jobs in construction alone
- The town has a number of high-tech industries but there is a diversity of business, with no single business being dependent on bulk employment.
