Medway - a place made for innovation
Medway has grown into a diverse economy comprising over 14,000 businesses. Medway’s business landscape is home to a colourful blend of multinational corporations including Jubilee Clips, and much smaller scale independently owned businesses, which service high-quality niche markets.
Today’s businesses are founded on innovation and creativity constantly generating new ideas, whilst morphing and challenging the conventional. The following series of films showcases why Medway is ‘A Place Made for Innovation’.
BAE Systems
Home to their Electronic Systems business, BAE system Rochester base is at the southern end of town by Rochester Airport where they develop and deliver a wide range of advanced technologies for the commercial and military electronics markets.
Discover why Medway is an important location for BAE systems in this video featuring Ian Brimelow.
Copper Rivet Distillery
The Copper Rivet Distillery is an exciting and dynamic Medway based craft distillery. Drawing upon the area’s rich tradition of innovation and craft, the team toil together to produce small batches of exceptional gins, whiskies and vodkas from scratch in bespoke stills, with the same skill that local craftsmen once fashioned world-class ships.
Medway is important for Copper Rivet – watch the video to find out why from Matthew Russell.
Veetee Rice
Veetee Rice Limited is one of the largest rice companies in the UK supplying rice to major supermarkets and exporting internationally to over 50 countries, from its headquarters in Medway, Kent as well as a key US operation.
Veetee Rice serves some of the most well known supermarkets. Hear more from Moni Varma.
