Today, Glasgow is one of the UK's most visited cities...

The city that hosted the highly popular Glasgow Garden Festival in 1988, was European City of Culture in 1990, and mounted the spectacular Glasgow Festival of Visual Arts in 1996, welcomes over 2 million tourists from all over the world each year who are drawn by its wealth of cultural attractions and activities.

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Demographics

Glasgow has a population of over 600,000 and serves the metropolitan area of West Central Scotland, with a population of nearly 2.5 million people.

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Business

Glasgow provides over 350,000 jobs in over 12,000 companies.

Today, Glasgow's economy is dominated by the service sector with finance and banking, public administration, education, healthcare, hotels, tourism and other business services being prominent.

Nevertheless, the city retains a strong manufacturing sector with strengths in engineering, food and drink, printing, publishing and clothing as well as new growth sectors such as software and biotechnology.

Business Information for Glasgow

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the city's economy, including up-to-date statistics,
news reports and publications.

Glasgow Workforce Training Programme - is a grant designed to help companies in Glasgow raise the skills levels of their existing workforce by training them in a variety of skills.

Glasgow Management Training Programme - is a grant designed to provide higher level management and technical training to employees, managers and owners of existing Glasgow companies

Financial Assistance for Businesses in Glasgow
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Small Business Loan Fund - offers small businesses an opportunity to access gap funding of up to £30,000.

Business Growth Through Innovation - The objective of the Programme is to support small businesses in Glasgow to implement e-business strategies and introduce innovative projects which will enable the business to raise its level of competitiveness and efficiency

The Glasgow City Council in partnership with the Ethnic Minority Enterprise Centre and Scottish Enterprise Glasgow have established a Minority Ethnic Business Support service. This will provide pre-start, new start-ups and existing businesses access to business advice, networking activities and possible growth finance.

Women into Enterprise - Provides small business support to women either wishing to start-up in business or develop their existing business.

Local Development Organisations - Specific business advice, support and training may be obtained from specific areas within the city.

Department of Development and Regeneration Services
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