With major motorway and rail links and a history as an Industrial region, Derby and the surrounding area is home to many famous household names with a large proportion of the workforce being drawn from the local population.
These include:
Adtranz Boots the Chemist,Beeston Bemrose Promotional Products British Midland Airways Birch Homes Birds Bakery Bowmer & Kirkland Courtaulds Acetate Denby Pottery JCBRocester Lynton Porcelain Railtrack Reckitt and Colman Rolls Royce Royal Crown Derby Severn Trent Water Authority Tarmac Roadstone Thorntons Chocolates Toyota UK Williams Holdings
Derbyshire is served locally by the East Midlands Airport and within a short distance are Birmingham International Airport and Manchester Airport.