You mention Stoke and pottery is sure to come to mind.
Belfast? Shipbuilding.
City? Finance.
Aberdeen? Oil.
Wales? Slate.
You get the idea...
It’s fair to say Peterborough isn’t a place that is so readily associated with world renowned products or innovations. However, that doesn’t mean individuals and companies based within our fine city haven’t had their fair share of “Eureka” moments.
Indeed, it is actually the case that a good number of Peterborians and local firms have come up with concepts, innovations, campaigns, products and services which have gone on to achieve national and international reach.
Don’t believe us? Well check out these seven instantly familiar ‘inventions’ which our innovative burgh gave to the world and see for yourself.
You mention Stoke and pottery is sure to come to mind.
5. Compare the Meerkat
Compare the Meerkat is an advertising campaign for price comparison website comparethemarket.com, which is part of Peterborough-based financial services company BGL Group. The campaign launched back in 2009, and features Aleksandr Orlov - a CGI animated Russian meerkat. BGL Group continues to operate from Orton Southgate. Photo: PT
Although British Sugar's first factory was built in Norfolk in 1912, the company has been headquartered in Peterborough since the early 1950s, when new offices were built next to an existing factory. These offices served as the head office for British Sugar until the factory was demolished in 1991. In 2017, British Sugar announced it was building a new head office in a new Peterborough location, with the previous offices being demolished. Photo: Stocksnapper - stock.adobe.com
Norwich and Peterborough (N&P) Building Society was formed by the merger of the Norwich Building Society and the Peterborough Building Society in 1986. It was the ninth largest building society at the time of its merger into the Yorkshire Group in 2011. N&P continued to operate under its own brand at Lynch Wood until 2018. Photo: David Lowndes