Excellent Location & Transportation Links

• Major rail links – Long history as a railway town.
• Centre of east-west M4 corridor and north-south M5 motorway.
• 90 minutes drive to London.
• 90% of UK population within 4.5 hours drive time.
• Close to Heathrow and Bristol airports.
• Near to Southampton, Bristol (Avonmouth) and Cardiff sea ports.
• Major logistics hub.

Major Investors in Swindon

• Honda (automobile with S$4 billion investment)
• BMW (automobile)
• Nationwide Building Society (Financial – over S$360 billion assets)
• Zurich Financial Services (insurance – over S$14 billion sales)
• W H Smith (UK's leading retail group – over S$9 billion sales)
• Motorola (communications) Intel (semi-conductor)
• Castrol ( lubricants)
• Lucent Technologies (telecom equipment)
• Readers Digest (publications)
• Dyson (vacuum cleaners)
• Many more have set up distribution centres, manufacturing facilities and sales offices

Growing Economy and Hottest Investment Location in EU

• Large Boom Town West of London
• Fastest growing town in Europe
• Just 1 hour to Central London via M4 Corridor
• Very low unemployment rate – housing shortage
• Property prices rising due to high demand
• Very strong knowledge-based economy
• High tech manufacturing hub.
• Strategically located.
• Opposite new housing estate comprising of hundreds of houses.
• One of the most sustainable options for large-scale greenfield development to 2016 and beyond.
• Identified as a “Strategically Significant Town” with the emerging South West Regional Spatial Strategy – Growth Agenda.
• Top 25% in UK for housing affordability.

An Attractive Place to Live, Work and Play

• Rich ethnic diversity and a vibrant, colourful cultural town.
• Full of shopping malls and world-class entertainment.
• Growing district population of 180,000.
• 5 million people regional market – growth 12% over 10 years.
• Heritage, museums, galleries, and many festivals and events.