Business Sectors

Understanding London's Sectors - LDA Nov 03

This report is the first detailed pan-London assessment of sectors, examining all London’s sectors across a common data and analysis framework and helping to set the framework for LDA sector intervention. Also identifying:
  • Sectors that are over and under-represented by ethnic group
  • Sectors multipliers/linkages
  • In-coming associated with higher productivity
  • Best practice from the UK and overseas

London's Creative Busineses - GLA, Oct 2002
This report shows that the Creative Industries have become a driving force for London’s economy, growing faster than any other in the last five years. The report looks at growth, demand, harnessing London’s capital and clustering & diversity.

Laying Foundations, London's Construction Industry - GLA, Feb 2006
This report aims to develop a deeper understanding of a sector that is traditionally hard to measure – construction in London. It begins the task of identifying whether the construction sector can adequately meet the needs of London’s expanding economy.

London's Creative Sector - GLA, April 2004

This report updates and extends the data that was published in Creativity: London’s Core Business, a comprehensive survey of employment and wealth creation in London’s creative sector. It also revises it to bring it in line with the latest official statistics. It contains a detailed statistical appendix and an explanation of how the data were arrived at.

London's Leisure Economy - GLA, Nov 2003

This report considers how leisure contributes to London’s economy. It looks at demographic trends in London compared with the UK and how this drives demand for leisure activities. The report divides the leisure sector into six activities: dining, drinking, entertaining, sport, gambling and visiting.

London's Economic Outlook - GLA, Oct  2004

The autumn 2004 edition of London’s Economic Outlook (LEO) is GLA Economics’ fifthLondon forecast. The forecasts are issued every six months to assist those preparing planning projections for London in the medium term. The forecasts provide:
  • The ‘consensus forecast’ – a review of independent forecast indicating the range of views about London’s economy and the possible upside and downside risk.
  • Projections for output, employment, household expenditure and household income in London.
  • Factors influencing world growth.

Retail in London - GLA, Oct 2006

GLA economics carried out a major research programme into the retail sector over the last two years. Over this period ten detailed reports on particular aspects of the sector – ranging from the West End and international comparisons, through employment and deliveries to the issues facing smaller retailers – have been published. This report pulls together some of its key findings and highlights some key issues for the future.

Retail & Labour Market - GLA, Mar 2006

This paper, focusing on the labour market in London’s retails sector, forms one part of GLA Economics’ wider study of the retail sector in London. Analysis of the retail labour market includes:

  • Examining the trends in retail employment in London over the last two decades and the geographical concentration of employment across London.
  • Providing a profile of the retail workforce in London compared to the London workforce in general and the retail workforce in the rest of Great Britain.
  • Examining skill levels of workers in the retail sector and training provision.

Retail & Regeneration - GLA Aug 2005 

This working paper is part of the wider GLA Economics study of retail in London. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate how retailing may contribute to the regeneration of deprived areas in London. Drawing on a literature review, discussions with interested parties and an analysis of data for London, this paper reviews the economic case for investment into what are commonly referred to as underserved areas (areas with inadequate retail provision of goods and services). It also attempts to highlight where these underserved areas might be.