Editing Worcester, England (section)

==Economy==

===Manufacturing===
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[[File:leaperrins.png|thumb|150px|[[Lea & Perrins]] advertisement (1900)]] One of Worcester's famous products, [[Lea & Perrins]] [[Worcestershire sauce]], is made and bottled at a Midland Road factory, its home since 16 October 1897. Messrs Lea and Perrins originally partnered a chemist's shop on the site of the Debenhams's store in Crowngate Shopping Centre.

Worcester has what is claimed to be the [[List of the oldest newspapers|oldest newspaper in the world]] still in publication: ''[[Berrow's Worcester Journal]]''. It traces its descent from a news-sheet started in 1690.

The foundry heritage of the city is represented by Morganite Crucible at Norton which produces graphitic shaped products and cements for use in the modern industry.<ref name="Morganite"/> The city is home to the European manufacturing plant of [[Yamazaki Mazak Corporation]], a global [[Japan]]ese [[machine tool builder]] established here in 1980.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mazak History |url=https://www.mazak.com/mazak-history/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402092910/https://www.mazak.com/mazak-history/ |archive-date=2 April 2015 |access-date=29 March 2015 |publisher=Yamazaki Mazak Corporation}}</ref>

Worcester Heating Systems was started in the city in 1962 by [[Cecil Duckworth]]. The company was bought by Bosch and renamed [[Worcester, Bosch Group|Worcester Bosch]] in 1996.<ref>[https://www.worcester-bosch.co.uk/about/history History] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190203143933/https://www.worcester-bosch.co.uk/about/history |date=3 February 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2012-09-10 |title=The tale of Cecil's life so far |work=Worcester News |url=https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/features/mikepryce/9919402.the-tale-of-cecils-life-so-far/ |url-status=live |access-date=2019-10-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190128191154/https://www.worcesternews.co.uk/features/mikepryce/9919402.the-tale-of-cecils-life-so-far/ |archive-date=28 January 2019}}</ref>

===Retail trade===
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The city is a major retail centre, with several covered shopping centres to accommodate the major chains and many independent shops and restaurants, particularly in Friar Street and New Street.

Worcester's main shopping centre is the High Street, with several major retail chains. The High Street was controversially part-modernised in 2005, and further modernised in 2015; with current redevelopment of Cathedral Plaza and Lychgate Shopping Centre. Much of the protest came at the felling of old trees, the duration of the work (caused by weather and an archaeological find) and removal of flagstones outside the city's 18th-century Guildhall.<ref>{{Cite news |date=December 2014 |title=At least £500000 to be pumped into sprucing up Worcester City Centre |work=[[Worcester News]] |url=http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/11639198.At_least_500_000_to_be_pumped_into_sprucing_up_Worcester_city_centre |url-status=live |access-date=4 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170803052226/http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/11639198.At_least_500_000_to_be_pumped_into_sprucing_up_Worcester_city_centre/ |archive-date=3 August 2017}}</ref>

The other main thoroughfares are the Shambles and Broad Street. The Cross and its immediate surrounding area are the city's financial centre for most of Worcester's main bank branches.

There are three main covered shopping centres in the city centre: [[CrownGate Shopping Centre]], Cathedral Plaza and Reindeer Court. There is also an unenclosed shopping area immediately east of the city centre called St Martin's Quarter. There are three retail parks, the Elgar and Blackpole retail parks located in the [[inner suburb]] of Blackpole, and the Shrub Hill Retail Park in neighbouring St Martin's Quarter. Retailers such as [[Asda]], [[B&M]] and [[Aldi]] are all located close to St Martin's Quarter.