York-based international healthcare company, Kleijnen Systematic Reviews Ltd, is the latest business to move its headquarters to Harrison’s Escrick Business Park.

The extensive parking and easy road access were major factors in the decision to make the move to Escrick. Buying as opposed to renting will deliver significant cost savings for the successful and expanding firm.

The business provides training and consultancy in systematic reviews, health technology assessment, guidelines, research methods, basic statistics and meta-analysis for national institutes and the pharmaceutical industry across Europe, in order to support evidence based medicine and evidence based health care.

Set up four years ago, Kleijnen now employs ten people at its head office and a team of freelancers across Europe. Chief exec and business founder, Dr Jos Kleijnen, expects those numbers to double as the business expands in the near future.

“We have outgrown our current accommodation at Westminster Business Centre at York Business Park. We could have bought space at York Business Park but lack of parking and public transport, in addition to traffic congestion on the York ring road, presented major obstacles. Escrick Business Park has neither of these problems so presented a much more attractive option.”

The business park, south of Escrick on the A19, has excellent public transport links – one of a number of factors which has attracted both office and warehouse based business to the development since it was completed at the beginning of the year.

“With interest rates at their current levels, it made sense to purchase rather than to lease the offices. Effectively, we will have acquired the building within five years, based on paying equivalent rental values. As a business committed to maintaining its international headquarters in the York area, it was an easy choice,” says Dr Kleijnen, who was formerly a professor and director of research at the University of York.

Kleijnen Systematic Reviews Ltd joins a growing band of successful businesses to relocate to Escrick. Earlier this year Domus Healthcare set up its UK headquarters there. Former bank manager Ruth Dowswell acquired a unit earlier in the year to set up Young Discoverers Nursery at Escrick – another attraction for firms looking to relocate.

Office and industrial units are available freehold or leasehold at Escrick Business Park – with office units and warehousing/industrial units from 1350 sq ft. Agents are Lawrence Hannah in York 01904 659800.