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Fact file on Leeds

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Leeds is the largest and most important town in the Yorkshire and Humber area, United Kingdom, which consists of 4 counties covering 15,412 square kilometers. The area of Leeds maintains a population of about 725,000 people, with manufacturing industries providing the main source of employment. The legal and financial sector employs about 60,000 in Leeds, while 38% of the workforce is involved in engineering industries. The main regional airport is Leeds Bradford International.

Publisher: Thomson Financial Inc.
Publication Name: Acquisitions Monthly
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0952-3618
Year: 1998
United Kingdom, Commercial statistics

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The Leeds Financial Services Initiative

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One element of the Leeds Initiative, set up in 1990 to bring together public and private sector organisations to promote the city, is the Leeds Financial Services Initiative (LFSI), which dates from 1993. This now has 62 members, and now represents all the leading retail and professional financial service operations in the city. Members are invited to attend many different events, and aim to work together to make Leeds a key regional financial centre.

Publisher: Thomson Financial Inc.
Publication Name: Acquisitions Monthly
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0952-3618
Year: 1995
Financial services industry, Financial services, Services

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What a treat for Leeds advisers: since the 1950s when it was started as a family business, Treats has been acquired, bought out and most recently floated

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Treats, an ice cream manufacturers, was acquired by Unilever in 1969 who decided to shut the plant down in 1990. A successful management buyout saved the factory and was completed in February 1991 with the backing of ECI Ventures. Some 12 million pounds sterling has been spent on plant and machinery and the purchase of premises since the buy out. The company was recently floated to raise capital for further investment and fully repay ECI.

Author: Clark, Raymond, Dean, Gavin
Publisher: Thomson Financial Inc.
Publication Name: Acquisitions Monthly
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0952-3618
Year: 1996
Ice cream and frozen desserts, Ice Cream and Frozen Dessert Manufacturing, Ice Cream, Finance, Dairy products industry, Ice cream industry, Treats Ice Cream Ltd.

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