This diverse area offers advantages for leading global brands and young high-growth businesses alike.

10 key facts about business and life in the west of the city.

• Investment boom: major projects include the new 90,000-seater Wembley Stadium, Wembley Arena and surrounds, a $1.2 billion development at White City — a media and digital content hub and home to the BBC – and Heathrow Airport’s state-of-the-art fifth terminal, which will increase the passenger capacity from around 65 million passengers per annum (mppa) to 90 million.
• Talented labour pool: almost 30% of the district’s workforce is qualified to degree level or above — higher than the UK national average of 23%. A fifth of all Chartered Institute of Marketing graduates are based in London.
• Culturally diverse workforce: the cultural and ethnic diversity of West London has created a large community of people from different backgrounds and faiths. Over 25% of West London’s population was born outside the EU creating a stimulating and inventive range of communities - a superb backdrop for any business
• Choice of office space: west London offers quality premises at outer London prices and is home to global multinationals, small and medium-sized businesses. Some of Europe’s most advanced business parks are also here, with many ideally suited to the IT sector. Chiswick Park and Stockley Park are premier business parks, the latter just 15 minutes from Heathrow Airport.
• Excellent transport links: Heathrow, the world’s busiest international airport, is situated here. Key UK motorways - the M4, M1, M3 and M40 - all pass through here, connecting the capital to major cities including Cardiff, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool. The train lines to South West England, Wales, the Midlands and North-West England all stop in West London. There are excellent Underground links for fast, convenient access into Central London throughout West London.
• Business and residential mix: blue chip giants, leading brands and international centres of commerce sit comfortably alongside residential communities. Global brands based here include British Airways, GSK, Coca Cola, L’Oreal and the BBC.
• Broad range of residential options: from the large family homes in Chiswick, Harrow and Ealing to the loft developments of Hammersmith, finding a suitable home is never a problem.
• IT hub: many of the world’s leading IT software companies are based here including Cisco, Apple, Sony Ericsson, AOL, Adobe, Filenet and Avaya.
• Food and drink HQ: west London is home to numerous food processing, airline catering companies as well as a growing ethnic food cluster. Park Royal, Europe's largest industrial estate (home to 40,000 employees in 2,000 companies) is now sometimes referred to as London's kitchen.
• Best boroughs for your sector:
  • Brent (food processing, logistics, film and TV, retail, leisure and hospitality)
  • Ealing (film and TV, creative services)
  • Hammersmith and Fulham (call centres, film and TV, creative services, design and marketing, ICT, professional services,  global HQs)
  • Harrow (ICT, business services)
  • Hillingdon (life sciences, ICT, professional services, retail, aviation support services)
  • Hounslow (call centres, ICT, professional services, logistics, aviation support services).

We work closely with the regional agency for west London, West London Business, to provide our clients with the detailed area specific advice and information they need.

Contact our west London experts to discuss whether this area of London can meet your business needs.