Warrington has yet again been acknowledged as the number one “city” in the UK for high-growing small businesses.

Independent research by Informi, a website offering useful advice for small businesses, looking at 65 UK cities, put Warrington top for the second year running in terms of having the highest proportion of high-growth firms between 2011 and 2014 – 15.8 per cent compared with the national average of 11.8 per cent.

The findings come ahead of Small Business Saturday (December 3).

Informi studied a number of factors that can be significant for smaller company survival, including the density of small and medium sized businesses (SMEs), digital connectivity and house prices.

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