Business

A home for the world's business community

Along with its rail, air and road connections, Reading’s business credentials are second to none. Whether it was its highly-trained workforce or the array of leading international brands who came first is hard to say, but they’re a perfect marriage.

While the breadth of businesses attracted to the city is tremendously diverse, it has a particular strength in high growth sectors, such as the creative and digital, professional, scientific, technology and other knowledge-based fields.

In the town centre itself, an array of new office developments, offering over 2 million sqft of workspace, have sprung up around the new station – adding to the 5 million sqft that already exists in Reading’s central business district.

There also are a number of business parks on the outskirts of the city, particularly along the M4, which are home to a range of major corporations’ UK and European headquarters.

Reading town centre
SSE, PwC, Huntswood, HSBC, Ericsson, Barton Willmore, Macquarie, Prudential, EY, Primark, Environment Agency, Thames Water, Ross Video

Suttons Business Park
MOOG, SAS International, Hitachi, Brakes, Aldi

Thames Valley Park
Microsoft, Oracle, OpenText, Computacenter, BBC Radio Berkshire

Winnersh Triangle
Business Park Jacobs, BD, Rockwell Collins, Atos, Grant Thornton, Harris

Arlington Business Park
Nokia, CTIL (Vodafone/ Telefonica), Wrigley, Regus

Green Park Business Park
Bayer, PepsiCo, Thales, Huawei, PRA Health Sciences, Cisco, Datto, Nvidia, Quintiles

Reading International Business Park
Verizon, Investec

Thames Valley Science Park
Biointeractions Limited, Sage People, Clasado BioSciences, BioInteractions Limited, Proton Partners International