Growing up on the edge of England may have, through the generations, wired in to Herefordshire a sense of independence – independent thought and entrepreneurial spirit. In an age when tech has made the world smaller, Herefordshire businesses have long been innovating to succeed in spite of its rurality, and because of it.
Financial services company allpay has gone on to revolutionise the digital payment industry, in part because its founders were able to develop the technology and test it out with Herefordshire Council.
Architype are leading the way in designing sustainable buildings, made for the future, like the new the UK's first Passivhaus Records and Archive centre in Hereford.
The emerging and innovative defence tech sector in the centre and south of the county has grown up because it puts companies on the doorstep of two major military intelligence and special forces hubs, while locating in a part of the UK where rents remain affordable. And with the creation of Skylon Park, the city has an industrial hub built for the future that nods to its past as a pioneer of engineering.
