Once the poster child of the UK's industrial decline, Sheffield's recession-defying growth in recent years has been based around the city and surrounding region using its past as a steelmaking and mining centre to embrace more modern technology, all backed up by training programmes supplying a steady stream of engineering talent.
Sheffield City Region
Originally published with the October/November 2013 issue of fDi Magazine
Sponsored by Sheffield City Region Inward Investment
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