Leeds City Council launches enterprising company

LEEDS City Council is to set up a £90m turnover company to allow it to trade some of its services commercially, in a drive to support local employers and create new jobs.

Councillors on the executive board have approved the establishment of Civic Enterprise Leeds, a company limited by shares and wholly-owned by the Council, to allow it to trade its commercial and enterprise services externally to non-public bodies.

The group already has a turnover of £90m a year, employs more than 3,000 staff and provides cateri... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...