Research
South London Business offers a business information and research service for both public and private sector organisations ready-made or tailored to individual needs or budgets. The information can be applied to a range of purposes by providing essential market information or business surveys to: identify new market opportunities or build a business case for locating to a particular area in London South of the Thames; provide a useful evidence base for lobbying or benchmarking; or can assist in gauging business opinions on key issues or requirement for business support services.We can provide the following services:
Ready made research and information service – whereby access is provided to pre-prepared market reports on London South of the Thames, down-loadable direct from the South London Business web-site. Topics covered include:
• Borough profiles for all boroughs South of the Thames
• Skills and labour force
• Business base
• Sector analysis for large clusters in London South of the Thames
• Commercial property market
• State of the local economy
• Socio-economic reports
• Transport
• Tourism and quality of life
• Environment
• Grants and finance
Bespoke information service – tailored market information service using a combination of governmental & commercial data sources and internal business expertise which SME’s can find hard to gain access to.
Business surveys – A bi-annual business survey is conducted in association with HSBC Bank and accountants Mazars. This informs the work that South London Business conduct’s to encourage the development of the South London economy and associated programmes. The information compiled is also feed into high profile organisations such as the Bank of England’s and the Mayor’s Agency for business the London Development Agency to inform their views on the local economy. An element of the bi-annual survey can include questions targeted to a clients’ specific information needs or if more appropriate bespoke surveys can be undertaken for organisations. The bespoke surveys offer would include development of questionnaires, mailing surveys to our extensive business contacts, collation of results and presenting a report analysing the collated data.
The business information and research function also provides research support to the South London Business inward investment and business retention programmes supporting the development of the local economy and the associated Business Club Celsius.
Benefits of the service to public and private sector businesses
and organisations:
The business information and research services’ unique selling point is the access to both public & private sector information sources and organisations, combined with on the ground business expertise gained from South London Business’ business support programmes thus providing a wealth of information at a regional and local level which others will find hard access. A cost-effective information service thus negating the need for smaller to medium sized businesses subscribing to costly data sources or hiring researchers. The savings made in time and money can thus be spent elsewhere within the organisation.
What To Do Next
For further information please contact Alena Harvey, on 020 8253 4225
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