James Dyson & his £2.5bn ‘vote of confidence in UK’

Posted on 8 Mar 2017 by Jonny Williamson

The government has welcomed James Dyson’s investment in a major new R&D facility in Wiltshire as a boost to Britain’s post-Brexit economy.

Sir James Dyson has announced a £2.5bn expansion programme that will propel his company from dominance of the high-end domestic appliance sector into advanced Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and high-density batteries. This could place Dyson, and by extension the UK, firmly on the same map as global tech…

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