3. Thames Gateway
20 Years: 2005-2025 Project
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Largest European Regeneration
Program: £9bn
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120,000 new homes (52,000 Kent)
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Economic
Social
Environmental
Schools, Parks, transport links
180,000 new jobs (59,000 Kent)
4. Thames Gateway: Opportunities in
Kent
• Attract & Retain leading
investors /businesses
• Grow number of
knowledge based
companies
• Improve skills of North
Kent workforce (tackle
unemployment)
• Create new businesses
and growth in the area
5. Thames Gateway: Threats in Kent
• Selling Solutions vs
Selling Products
• Competitive Selling
• Increasing Complexity
• Long Sales Cycles
6. Maximise the opportunity
• TIGER – (Thames Gateway Regeneration Innovation, Growth, Enterprise)
Business Funding (interest-free loans)
£20m available in Kent.
• Become supplier to Tier 2 & Tier 3
• Chamber of Commerce, European Union
Development Fund Agencies
– Training to be ‘fit to supply’ to large companies (Tier 1 and
Tier 2)
– Support to ‘Tender for contracts’
• Local Business Forums, ‘Meet the Buyer’ events