Essex County Council

A dedicated Inward Investment Team (Invest Essex) works alongside Economic Regeneration and Skills Teams based here at Essex County Council, with a strong focus on offshore renewables and the wider energy sector.

The County Council supports the continuing major involvement of locally based businesses in the energy sector and is encouraging the promotion of Essex as a destination for industries linked to the offshore renewables and wider energy sector.

A recently formed Enterprise team seeks to deliver the following:

To develop an internationally competitive economy where businesses of all sizes are able to start up, innovate and grow, and which will become both a location of choice for inward investment and a platform from which international trade can thrive.

The Invest Essex team undertake the following:

We promote Essex as an outstanding business destination. This includes marketing inward investment opportunities to high value businesses in sectors that employ medium/high skills, handling investment enquiries, providing aftercare, and working to retain existing businesses in Essex.

What Invest Essex does, detail:

Whilst recognising that every project is unique, we can offer expertise in the following:-
1. Land and property searches to identify potential sites
2. Market and socio-economic data
3. Supply chain
4. Logistics and communications
5. Staff recruitment, skills and training
6. Assistance in developing collaborations with research and development in our universities
7. Arranging tours and visits to Essex

Once businesses have invested and established themselves in Essex our service moves seamlessly into the aftercare phase which can provide real benefits by helping businesses to improve their effectiveness and profitability by:

1. Identifying suppliers, customers and competitors
2. Ongoing supplier development
3. Identifying new markets
4. Export assistance
5. HR, training and recruitment support
6. R&D support

• Promoting energy as a key sector for Essex
• Promoting economic development opportunities linked of offshore wind
• Profiling the energy coast within the wider East of England