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More than 700,000 workers live within a one-hour commute of Wollongong CBD, a talent pool complemented by graduates of the University of Wollongong.
Making work-life balance easy, Wollongong is easy to get around, has great public and community infrastructure, a vibrant cultural scene and a beautiful natural environment.
Be supported to build your networks in Wollongong via the city’s active business groups and communities in sectors including engineering and manufacturing, tech and startups.
More than 10,000 businesses call Wollongong home including NEC and Mercer. Wollongong is also home to a strong global tech sector including businesses such as Easy Agile, Accelo, Hysata and Scalapay.
Wollongong is a cost effective location for business, driven by a combination of lower staff turnover rates and as a more affordable business location.
Home to the University of Wollongong, a world-class research and teaching university highly-regarded in disciplines including engineering, tech and business.
Just one hour’s drive from Sydney airport – as well as the under construction second airport in Western Sydney, regular trips for business to Sydney is within easy reach.
Wollongong CBD has been transformed by a huge uplift in A-grade office developments, confirming our city’s credentials as a legitimate, alternative CBD location for business. Explore all of these new leasing opportunities in our prospectus.
DOWNLOAD NOWWollongong is home to both well-established national and international businesses as well as new and scaling tech companies such as Scalapay, FinoComp, Accelo and Easy Agile. Hear more from business leaders about why they love the city: for business and for life.
From Milan to Wollongong, there’s no boundaries to where you can operate a business and service customers, if buy now, pay later start-up ‘unicorn’ Scalapay’s experience is any measure. Why would a company like Scalapay establish its tech operation here? There’s two key reasons: world-class talent and connection with the University of Wollongong.
Mercer is a global financial services organisation with over 500 employees on the Wollongong site that support the administration of its clients. Work-life balance has been a huge benefit to the staff at Mercer, and the business.
Wollongong is home to new ground-breaking technology that is leading the charge to a cleaner, greener energy future for the world. One core ingredient needed to reach this goal is the ability to create cost-competitive renewable hydrogen, and Hysata is revolutionising the economics of green hydrogen by commercialising a high-efficiency electrolyser developed at the University of Wollongong that will deliver the world’s lowest cost green hydrogen.
Green Gravity, a Wollongong-based innovator and developer of gravitational energy storage technology, aims to lead the world in creating the future of energy from the legacy of mining. Founded in 2021, Green Gravity has developed a technology that utilises heavy objects moving vertically through legacy mineshafts to exchange electrical and gravitational potential energy.
With its proven manufacturing capability and industry research collaboration, Wollongong was an obvious choice for Green Gravity.
Josh Allen established his start-up to address demand for unique ingredients for beer by focusing on one of the “overshadowed” ingredients of brewing, yeast.
Wollongong is emerging as a clean and low-carbon energy hub, with large investment underway and proposed in hydrogen production, offshore wind, technology and terminal infrastructure.
Wollongong CBD offers some great options for casual catch-ups or formal dining. Our recent survey counted 183 small bars and cafes, over double the number of a decade ago.
Invest Wollongong is a strategic partnership of Wollongong City Council, NSW Government and the University of Wollongong, with the goal of attracting new businesses, investment and jobs by promoting Wollongong as a superior business location in key target sectors.
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