Be inspired: UKTI hard facts

We know it’s terribly un-British but could we take a moment to shout about our success…Please?

This booklet presents some of the everyday facts and unusual features that have helped put the UK at the heart of world business.

Location, regulation and transportation have led more companies to set up European headquarters in the UK than any other country, including Apple, China Mobile, MTV and Bank of America1. A network of over 70 airports, world-class ports and the Eurotunnel railway give easy access to over 675 million European customers.

We Brits don’t like to fuss. Perhaps that’s why the most popular lunch in the UK is simply to ‘grab a sandwich’ – we eat over 2 billion of them every year. We also avoid fuss when it comes to business – it takes only 13 days to set up a company in the UK, compared to a European average of 15 days.