Editing South West England (section)

===Dorset===
{{Main|Economy of Dorset}}

[[New Look (clothing retailer)|New Look]] is in [[Weymouth, Dorset|Weymouth]]; it is Britain's second-biggest value clothing retailer, with over 800 stores in 21 countries. [[Wytch Farm]] ([[BP]]) is the UK's largest onshore oil field. [[Meggitt]] is a leading aerospace and defence contractor, based west of Bournemouth Airport, with [[Hobbycraft]], at a former [[British Aircraft Corporation|BAC]] works in [[Hurn]], close to [[West Parley]]. The [[Royal Armoured Corps]] is based at [[Bovington Camp]], and next door is the [[Bovington Tank Museum]]; the Army has three armoured regiments ([[Royal Dragoon Guards]], [[Royal Tank Regiment]] and [[King's Royal Hussars]]) and 227 FV4034 70-tonne [[Challenger 2]] tanks; Germany has around 1,000 tanks and Russia has 3,300. [[Westwind Air Bearings]] (owned by Novanta) is off the [[A352 road|A352]] at [[Wareham St Martin]], west of Poole, near [[Holton Heath railway station]], with [[Mathmos]] (lighting), founded by [[Edward Craven Walker]] who invented the [[lava lamp]].

[[Tata Consultancy Services]] (former [[Unisys|Unisys Insurance Services]] before 2010) is in Bournemouth. [[Imagine Publishing]], a magazine publisher, with [[The Mortgage Works]] (owned by Nationwide Building Society), is at the [[A35 road|A35]]/A347 Richmond Hill Roundabout; [[Organix (company)|Organix]] is in the centre; [[McCarthy & Stone]], who make much of Britain's retirement housing, is on the B3066. [[Liverpool Victoria|LV=]] (insurance) is at [[Frizzell House]] at [[Westbourne, Dorset|Westbourne]] at the County Gates Gyratory A35/A338 roundabout. [[JPMorgan Chase]] have their large Chaseside site at the A3060/A338 junction opposite the [[Royal Bournemouth Hospital]], [[RIAS (insurance)|RIAS]] (insurance) and [[Teachers Assurance]], towards [[Holdenhurst]].

[[File:Poole , The Lifeboat College - geograph.org.uk - 1771006.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Lifeboat College]] in Poole, where the [[Royal National Lifeboat Institution]] (RNLI) is headquartered]]
[[Merlin Entertainments]] (who own [[Sea Life Centres]], and are the world's second largest [[theme park]] operator after [[Disney Parks, Experiences and Products|Disney]]) is in [[Poole]] with a former division, [[Aquarium Technology]], at the end of the A350 near the [[Twin Sails bridge]]. [[Ryvita]] is made in [[Parkstone]] on the B3061. [[Fitness First]], the largest privately owned health club group in the world, originated in Bournemouth and is now globally headquartered south of Fleet's Corner. [[Siemens Plessey|Siemens Traffic Controls]] make most of the UK's traffic lights west near Fleet's Corner; the main traffic light in the UK is the Siemens Helios (the other make is the [[Peek Traffic|Peek]] Elite). North of Fleets Lane, south of the Wessex Gate Retail Park, is [[Parvalux]], on the A3049 on the West Howe Ind Estate in [[Wallisdown]], which makes geared [[Brushed DC electric motor|DC electric motor]]s and gearboxes; further south is [[Faerch Plast]] (former [[Sealed Air]], which makes trays for food) then Fitness First, and [[Aeronautical & General Instruments]]; further north is [[Lush (company)|Lush]], the cosmetics company, with Hamworthy [[Wärtsilä]] (Finnish), and Hamworthy Combustion (owned by [[Koch Industries]]), at the A349/A3049 junction in [[Fleetsbridge]], is an international engineering consultancy.

[[Sunseeker]] International is a main motor [[yacht]] manufacturer; it made the boat in the opening sequence of ''[[The World Is Not Enough]]''. The [[Special Boat Service]] is based at [[RM Poole]], home of the Navy's [[amphibious warfare]] section, off the B3068 at [[Hamworthy]] in the west of Poole. [[Tangerine Confectionery]] (former Parrs) made gums and jellies on the Redlands Trading Estate off the [[A3040 road (Great Britain)|A3040]] near [[Branksome railway station]] to the east. [[Aish Technologies]] makes console (display) systems for the Royal Navy off B3068 in [[Alderney, Dorset|Alderney]].

[[File:Yoyager-underwing-cobham-pod.jpg|thumb|right|Cobham underwing refuelling pod on an RAF Voyager, or [[Airbus A330 MRTT]] (the aircraft is made at [[Construcciones Aeronáuticas SA|CASA]], part of [[Airbus Defence and Space]], in [[Getafe]] in central Spain)]]
[[Cobham plc]], in [[Wimborne Minster]] towards [[Leigh, Dorset|Leigh]], is a world-leader in [[Aerial refueling|air-to-air refuelling]], developed by [[Alan Cobham]] at [[RAF Tarrant Rushton]], and aircraft antennas. [[Durable]] UK (office products) is in Wimborne; [[Caterpillar Inc|Caterpillar]]'s Wimborne Marine Power Centre make [[Perkins Engines|Perkins]] Sabre marine diesel generators on [[Ferndown]] Ind Est off the A31; to the south is the paint manufacturer [[Farrow & Ball]] in [[Hampreston]] and [[Stapehill]], in Ferndown. [[Manitou UK]], owner of the American [[Gehl Company]] and from [[Nanterre]] in France, is based at [[Verwood]] on the Ebblake Ind Est off the B3081 near the Hampshire boundary. [[Sigma-Aldrich]] UK (pharmaceuticals) are off the B3092 on Brickfield Business Park in [[Gillingham, Dorset|Gillingham]], next to the [[River Stour, Dorset|River Stour]] and railway. [[Cygnus Instruments]], on the B3144 in Dorchester, is the leading manufacturer of [[Ultrasonic thickness measurement|ultrasonic thickness]] gauges, developing the technique in the early 1980s. [[Edwards Sports Products]] of Bridport, owned by [[Broxap]] of Staffordshire, make football goals for the [[Premier League]], and tennis nets and posts for [[The Championships, Wimbledon|Wimbledon]].{{citation needed|date=February 2021}}