Success stories

Capital One
Nottingham

Credit card company Capital One opened its European Headquarters in Nottingham in July 1998 and later extended with a £60m building. To date, the company has invested a little over £100m in Nottingham.

Nigel Morris, President of Capital One:
“Capital One now has more than 46.6 million customers, including over 3.5 million in the UK, and employs more than 17,000 people around the world. Ranked as one of America's finest, we’ve already successfully expanded into Europe and Canada and have set our sights firmly on further international expansion.

“Nottingham won out because of the strength of its human resource, because of the people who live in the area. It’s all about people. We were able to demonstrate that. The people of Nottingham speak for themselves.”

In 2004 Capital One was ranked as ‘America's most admired company’ in consumer credit by Fortune and appeared 12th on Training's list of Top 100 training organisations. Capital One was also named in the Sunday Times Top 100 Best Places to Work for the fourth year running and named the 39th Best UK Workplace by the Financial Times.

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