While Yorkshire boasts more breweries than any other UK region – more than 70 compared to 16 in the early 1970s – its principal city’s own independent brewery didn’t arrive on the scene until 2007. However, since then the Leeds Brewery has certainly made up for lost time.

With sales now exceeding 20,000 thousand pints a week through the brewery’s growing chain of distinctive Leeds pubs and other watering…

The healthcare sector has long been a vital and successful cluster in the Leeds Manufacturing portfolio. It was good to see some of its star performers receiving well-deserved recognition as they collected accolades at the recent Yorkshire Post 2009 Excellence in Business Awards.

Paul Birtles, manufacturing director of Surgical Innovations, went far beyond the call of duty prior to collecting the award for SME Manufacturer of the Year.…

A little over three years ago, we launched our Leeds Manufacturing media relations campaign and it has met with conspicuous success, achieving media coverage far and wide.

This is not so much due to our skills in recording the continued progress of the city as a centre of manufacturing excellence, but more to the rich and innovative variation of companies and their products.

In a recent tour of…