Business Weekly is the UK's only regional business newspaper published on a weekly basis. Focusing on Europe's innovation capital - the East of England, our print edition, website, epaper and email newsletters combine the latest business news with in-depth reports and analysis on issues of importance to companies involved in hi-tech, biotech, manufacturing and services to industry.

Founded in May 1990, it remains in private ownership and has expanded circulation across three fronts.

Print edition... Subscribe to print edition
The printed newspaper circulates on a subscription basis to 22,500 decision making executives across major trade centres in the East of England, chiefly: Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Milton Keynes & N.Bucks, Bedfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. It is also pushing into the fringes of Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire.

Through Smiths News distribution, copies are also available in major retail outlets in key economic sectors, from Stansted Airport to Northampton.

Web...
businessweekly.co.uk, which has been on the web since 1998 has superb visibility with all the major search engines. Our news stories are indexed by Google News, Yahoo News and Technorati among a host of other major news aggregators, ensuring that our content reaches a global audience.

In addition to news, blogs, comment, a comprehensive East of England company directory and events, the site also hosts a press release distribution platform, Newswire, which is designed to improve the visibility of its subscribers' brands on the web and also allows their press releases to be indexed by Google News.

Digital edition...
The recently upgraded interactive electronic newspaper at epaper.businessweekly.co.uk is powered by award-winning software from our Indian e-paper partner, Bodhtree in Mumbai.

INDUSTRY SECTORS
Business Weekly covers every major sector in business, principally: Life Sciences & Biotech; High Technology; Manufacturing & Engineering; Defence, Space and Aerospace; Transport and Travel; Commercial and Residential Property; Recruitment; Academia and Research; Construction; Healthcare & Medical Devices; The Law; Finance (Including Banking and Venture Capital ); Food & Beverage; Printing; Design & Marketing; Telecommunications and ICT; and Farming & Agribusiness.

The newspaper is the media partner of choice for major players in the UK such as UK Trade & Investment, BAA Stansted Airport, East of England International and the facilitating bodies for key technology sectors such as the Cambridge Wireless and ERBI - the East of England Biotechnology Initiative.

SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS
Through alliances with key trade bodies both in the UK and internationally, Business Weekly is facilitating two way trade between the East of England and the emerging economies of both China and India, as well as the broader European Union and The Americas. Our subscribers and advertisers embrace major corporates globally and regionally.

Business Weekly penetrates the commercial heartland of arguably Britain's fastest-growing economic region, and without question its most innovative, providing advertisers with the ideal medium to reach the country's fastest-moving and most forward-thinking companies.

CIRCULATION
Business weekly embraces the major centres of Cambridge, Milton Keynes, Peterborough, Ipswich, Northampton as well as Norwich. Coverage also includes the following major business hubs :
* Newmarket
* Bury St Edmunds
* Stansted
* St Ives
* Bedford
* Huntingdon
* St Neots
* Kettering
* Luton
* Thetford
* Bishop’s Stortford
* Chelmsford
* Colchester

INDUSTRIAL SECTOR CLASSIFICATION (Subscriber base)

• Technology and biotech 29.8%
• Industry 15.0%
• Property & Construction 14.4%
• Consultancy & Services 8.8%
• Banks & Financial 6.2%
• Agriculture 3.2%
• Distribution 8.5%
• Legal & Accountancy 7%