{"id":7375,"date":"2026-02-03T16:07:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T16:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/?p=7375"},"modified":"2026-02-03T16:07:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T16:07:19","slug":"manchesters-economic-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/manchesters-economic-revival\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester’s economic revival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greater Manchester\u2019s economy has been growing at twice the UK\u2019s national rate, and it\u2019s showing no signs of slowing. A recent report from <\/span>Bloomberg<\/span><\/a> delves into the driving factors behind Manchester\u2019s growth, as the capital of the north continues to be placed on a global stage.<\/span><\/p>\n

The population within the city centre is fast approaching 100,000, a major jump from 1990, where the population was in the hundreds. The city also retains 50% of its graduates, the highest share of anywhere in England outside of the capital.<\/span><\/p>\n

The significant graduate retention rate contributes greatly to Manchester’s growth, as the talent chooses to remain in the city, more employers open offices, and a thriving dynamic is created. 80% of the FTSE100 companies have a base in Manchester, including global businesses such as IBM, <\/span>Booking.com<\/span><\/a>, Klarna, Bosch, Roku and Auto Trader.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Greater Manchester\u2019s mayor, Andy Burnham, is also clearly committed to driving further growth, as last week he announced a plan to \u201creindustrialise\u201d the city-region by focusing on five \u201cgrowth-driving clusters,\u201d including creative industries, green, and life sciences.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Manchester is continue to attract investment from across the world, as it outpaces other major UK cities growth, including London.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greater Manchester\u2019s economy has been growing at twice the UK\u2019s national rate, and it\u2019s showing no signs of slowing. A recent report from Bloomberg delves into the driving factors behind…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7377,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7375\/revisions\/7377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}