Editing East Midlands (section)

===Retail===
[[Wilko (retailer)|Wilko]] head office is at [[Manton, Nottinghamshire|Manton]], [[Worksop]]; it was founded by [[James Kemsey Wilkinson]] in Leicester in 1930. In [[Lenton, Nottingham|Lenton]], are the head offices of [[Games Workshop]], the producers of [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle|Warhammer]] miniatures. [[Pendragon PLC]], the [[car dealership]] and the Sherwood Park industrial area is in [[Annesley]]. [[Sytner Group]] is in Enderby, a prestige car retailer. [[Dunelm Group]], the furnishings company, is based on the A607 next to Lafarge in [[Syston]]; the company is named after Bill Adderley's house on Greenhill Road in Coalville; nearby is [[Pukka Pies]]. In Leicester is the nearly-defunct photographic equipment company [[Jessops]], bought and relaunched as Jessops Europe by businessman [[Peter Jones (entrepreneur)|Peter Jones]] and [[Fox's Confectionery]] (maker of [[Fox's Glacier Mints]]), with both based near each other on the [[Braunstone Park & Rowley Fields|Braunstone Frith]] estate. Also in Leicester are the [[bookmaker]] [[Mark Jarvis]] (next to Radio Leicester), the European HQ of [[National Car Rental]], and [[Otis Elevator Company|Otis UK]] ([[Elevator|lift]]s, near the National Space Centre on the A6). [[Jacobs (photographic retailer)|Jacobs]] is on the Meridian Business Park in [[Braunstone Town|Braunstone]], next to the M1. [[Machine Mart]] is based on the A60 near BioCity in Nottingham. East of the Walkers plant in Beaumont Leys is [[Office Depot]] UK (and Viking Direct UK) on the Bursom Industrial Estate. [[Crown Crest]] in Belgrave owns [[Poundstretcher]]. [[Goldsmiths (retailer)|Goldsmiths]] (jewellers) are based at the western end of Braunstone Frith, off the B5380.

In Northampton is [[Avon Products|Avon Products UK]]; its products reach 6m women per week. [[East Midlands Railway]] has its head office in Derby. [[Porterbrook]], one of the UK's three [[Rolling stock company|rolling stock companies]] is in Derby. The former [[East Midlands Electricity]] is now owned by [[E.ON UK]] ([[public electricity supplier|supply]], since [[Powergen]] bought EME in June 1998) and [[Western Power Distribution]] ([[Distribution network operator|distribution]], who bought Central Networks in April 2011), which is based in [[Long Whatton and Diseworth]]; the area has around a 5,000&nbsp;MW demand for electricity. Nearby at [[Castle Donington]] is the home of the (separate) headquarters of [[BMI (airline)|BMI]] (in [[Donington Hall]]) and [[bmibaby]]. [[Sixt]], the car rental firm, has its UK base in Chesterfield, the base of [[Auto Windscreens]]. [[Booker Group]], the Cash & Carry, ([[Happy Shopper]] and 2,700 [[Premier Stores]], and famous for the [[Man Booker Prize|Booker Prize]]) is on B571 in Wellingborough.

[[Maclaren]], the [[Baby transport|pushchair]] maker, is near the M1 next to [[Long Buckby railway station]]; [[BabyStyle]] is in [[Sileby]]. There are three main distribution centres in the area at [[Magna Park]] in Leicestershire (the largest of its kind in Europe), and [[Brackmills]] and the [[Daventry International Railfreight Terminal]] in Northamptonshire. [[J D Wetherspoon]] have their main distribution centre at Daventry, and [[Currys]] (founded in Leicester in 1888 on Belgrave Gate) have theirs at [[Newark-on-Trent]]. Oxford University Press have their national distribution centre at North Kettering Business Park at the [[A6003 road|A6003]] roundabout on the A43 Kettering bypass (in [[Rushton, Northamptonshire|Rushton]]). [[Monsoon Accessorize]] have their national distribution centre to the east on Octavian Park in Irchester next to A45. In [[Kilsby]] on the DIRFT estate, Tesco have their Daventry Grocery, the largest supermarket depot in the country, west of the A5 and north of the WCML. North of the A428 is Tesco's Clothing Distribution Centre.