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