We've all heard of Robin Hood, but there is far more to Nottinghamshire than the legendary outlaw alone. Home to Ice Age art, design icons like Paul Smith and the Raleigh Chopper, also The Goose Fair!; one of Europe's largest travelling fairs.
There are 26,350 micro and small businesses in Nottinghamshire, comprising 97% of the total number of businesses across the County. Some of the biggest private employers in Northampton are Weetabix, Travis Perkins, Nationwide Building Society, RS Components, iPSL and Barclaycard. Nationwide and Barclaycard alone provide over 5,000 jobs within credit, insurance and personal banking.
Anthony John Langley is a British billionaire industrialist, the owner of the international engineering and industrial group, Langley Holdings plc, based in Retford. He founded the company in 1975 with what was left of his grandfather's failed engineering firm. The group currently has over 80 trading subsidiaries and employs around 5,400 people worldwide, the majority at its factories in Norway, Germany, France and Italy.