| Barking and Dagenham is an outer London Borough to the East of the City on the North bank of the River Thames and within the M25 London Orbital Motorway. The Borough has a rich and varied business history, from very large companies through to very small specialist companies employing 10 people on average. There is also a lively retail and commercial sector.
Major companies and employers include: Ford, Aventis Pharma, Hapag LLoyd, Dairy Crest, Thames Power, The Borough Council, The University of East London, Barking College, Health Services. There is also a large range of small and medium sized enterprises and micro-enterprises - 2,000 small businesses, employing just over half the working population.
This directory has been compiled as a means whereby local businesses can find on their doorstep the goods and services they need, and others can discover the wide range of services available in the Borough. |
