Klosinski Economic Development Ltd helps

• companies to achieve their growth and expansion projects,

• identify, enter and engage in new supply chains so they can seek new contracts.

• undertake inward investment,

Our competitive advantage comes from being the only permanently, locally based economic development organisation located in the Furness peninsula.

We have in-depth knowledge of what is happening across the Furness, Lancaster and South Cumbria, Bay area, Westmorland and Furness Economic Region, who you should engage with, what project opportunities to target, where you can operate from and what skills and suppliers you may be able to tap onto.

Core strengths include:

• – our knowledge base, depth of experience,
• networks and relationships with people, companies, development organisations, local and central government, port operators.

We pride ourselves on being able to quickly assimilate your needs.

We offer a structured, analytical approach backed by deliver-ability on the ground to optimise companies opportunities.

We also have a delivery track record of enabling areas to design and implement innovative programmes to assist business growth and use area economic risk profiles to assist in policy formation.

To give you the competitive edge we can enable your company to:

• Find sites and premises;
• Deliver well researched advice to help you Identify and access local, regional and national supply chains or overseas partner firms;
• Access skills, training support, analysis of potential labour markets.
• Gain insights and understandings of the Cumbria, Furness and North Lancashire economy’s manufacturing, electronics, defence, energy and other key sectors.

Our specialism lies in provide a deep understanding of emerging major projects, their supply chain pre-qualification requirements to enable suppliers to act on information to help win new business.

We can introduce you to an area’s supply chain firms, explore with you ways that they might support your business growth, development activity or new projects, or provide a local solution to your needs instead of relying on existing suppliers.

Our in-house research capability will enable you to also tap into our links with external partners and business networks so that you can identify new markets, understand companies better and explore engagement with overseas firms including those in Australia through our contacts there and in its State agencies.

We champion British manufacturing by having built up a detailed knowledge of its capability within south Cumbria.

We promote understanding of the contribution defence makes to UK prosperity and the reasons why skills and sovereign capability in for example nuclear submarine build are so important because they give UK ability to have freedom of action when required. We have consistently since 2003 provided the secretariat and marketing service to the Keep our Future Afloat Campaign ‘s national effots to sustain a steady drum beat of submarine and warship orders.

As a Chartered Town Planner led business we can also advise you on planning policy or take you through the planning application process process including environmental impact assessment.. One of our most recent projects involved assisting a national contractor involved in the rail industry to secure planning consent for a regional infrastructure service facility in Birmingham.

We also offer bespoke assistance to landowners and developers on ways to realise site development opportunities. For example, we worked with a developer to realise the site acquisition, build and subsequent market positioning of an internationally branded 127 room hotel in the heart of the Barrow town centre.

Long Lane Dalton is an emerging development location for Bartlett’s Group using land zoned in Barrow Local Plan

We work with

• companies, communities and MPs to influence and accelerate planned new transport, utilities, energy industrial and commercial site infrastructure investment decisions. Also we can assist groups of firms, individual businesses and communities to influence policy decisions affecting their activity or community;.
• We can introduce you to Department for International Trade export advisors, Cumbria Growth Hub’s advisors, Cumbria Tourism, Barrow BID and Federation of Small Businesses to optimise access to the best packages of business advice;
• specialists such as Research Team EU (https://researchteam.eu/ ) and pull together external assistance to deliver multi-disciplinary teams  comprise consulting engineers, designers, quantity surveyors, transport and property specialists to deliver projects.

Our clients include SME sized businesses to those just starting out, large companies, Further Education Colleges, charitable bodies such as Furness Education and Skills Partnership furthering skills. We have assisted government agencies, Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs’), local authorities, trade union led industrial sector activity, co-operatives and community organisations. We have also contributed to the success of regional conferences delivered by regional specialist “Placenorthwest”. https://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/ and provided factual briefings to MPs and local elected Councillors.

GET IN TOUCH,CALL: 07836254721 or email stuart@klosinski.co.uk to discuss how we can help you. Our fees are very cost effective. They can be negotiated on a per day, individual project, or a retained fee basis over an agreed period.

We look forward to working with you.