Hemel Hempstead - local business list
Hemel Hempstead has a mixture of heavy and light engineering companies and has attracted a significant number of information technology andtelecommunications sector companies helped by its proximity to London and the UK motorway network. However, (and again in common with many new towns) it has a much narrower business base than established centres, particularly Watford and St Albans.
Significant firms with a local presence include:
- ACT (formerly Apricot Computers)
- Aquascutum, Clothing manufacturer
- ASOS.com, Customer Care department of UK's largest online fashion retailer
- Bourne Leisure
- BP Oil, petroleum
- BSI Product Services
- Gist Food distribution for Marks & Spencer
- Glanville Consultants, Civil and Structural Engineering Consultants.
- British Telecom, telecommunications
- BSI (British Standards Institution) materials testing
- DSG International plc (formerly Dixons Group), electrical retailer (global headquarters)
- Dixons, electrical retailer (national headquarters)
- DuPont, petrochemicals
- Epson, Consumer Electronics
- Friedheim International, pre- and postpress printing & bookbinding equipment
- Filippo Berio UK Olive Oil
- Aon Hewitt, Human resources (personnel) out-sourcing and benefits administration consulting arm of Aon
- HSBC Bank, Telephone services & Head Office Operations
- Kent Brushes (G B Kent & Sons Ltd) — Established in 1777 & has been manufacturing brushes in Apsley for most of that time.
- Kodak, photography — (formerly in central Hemel, now located on 3Com Campus)
- NEXT, clothing (distribution centre)
- Northgate Information Solutions, specialist software for human resources
- Sappi group, paper, at Nash Mills. Has announced the mill will close in 2006
- Steria computers, IT services
- Transcend UK office of DRAM and Flash memory manufacturer
- Unisys, computers
- Xerox Office Supplies, Document supplies, paper development