SMALL HEADING
West Lothian's strategic location makes it
Scotland's Economic Hub
We have Scotland’s largest life sciences firm, Quintiles. In addition, West Lothian has been home to Valneva for over 15 years. They are a specialist vaccine developer. Our technology firms are world brands such as Sky Television. They are our largest private sector employer having located to Livingston in 1989. Calnex, based in the historic town of Linlithgow, are a key developer of technology for the telecoms industry worldwide. To meet the demand for tomorrow’s skilled workforce, West Lothian College has recently launched a cyber training hub. Those graduating in technology disciplines will find many job opportunities.
West Lothian’s geographic advantages has seen the development of a distribution cluster. Tesco has a national distribution centre off J3 of the M8. Further West at J4 of the M8 Aldi, Schuh and Amazon as the largest employers on the site. Firm of this quality grow through consistent recruitment of skilled staff. Whether that is entry level warehouse staff, through logistics specialists, finance, marketing and senior management. Our Food & Drink sector has over 270 firms including world leading whisky brands Glenmorangie and Cutty Sark.
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