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Hosts UK mayoral delegation; £25 million UK expansion, £9 million Manchester centre and Leeds partnership in focus

Hexaware hosted a delegation led by the Mayors of West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester during The Great North's first joint mayoral-led trade mission to India.

By ScoutQuest · Fri 23 Oct 2026, 11:32 AM IST · 2 min read

Manchester Design and Innovation Centre

£9 million Design and Innovation Centre at Manchester's SISTER district

UK expansion outlay

£25 million UK expansion

Job creation target

approximately 1,200 jobs over three to five years, including 420 in Manchester and 240 in Leeds

What the company shared

• Hexaware hosted a delegation led by Tracy Brabin, Mayor of West Yorkshire, and Bev Craig, Mayor of Greater Manchester, as part of The Great North's first joint mayoral-led trade mission to India.
• West Yorkshire delegates met at the company's Mumbai office to discuss UK investment plans, regional employment and technology collaboration.
• The Greater Manchester meeting took place earlier in the mission, on October 14 in Bengaluru, with representatives of the British Deputy High Commission and the Invest Manchester team.
• Hexaware and the University of Leeds discussed their agreement to strengthen industry-academic collaboration through research, knowledge sharing and experiential learning opportunities for students.

The investment figures

• £9 million for a new Design and Innovation Centre at Manchester's innovation district, SISTER, delivered in collaboration with the University of Manchester. The release says this will create hundreds of jobs.
• £25 million UK expansion announced in June 2026, expected to create approximately 1,200 jobs over three to five years across Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham.
• Of those, 420 jobs in Manchester and 240 in Leeds.
• Plans include proposed R&D centers in Manchester and Leeds, with Newcastle under consideration as a potential future location, citing the region's university talent pool and proximity to Scotland.

Why the locations were chosen

• A base at SISTER gives access to what the release describes as Europe's largest clinical academic campus on Manchester's Oxford Road Corridor.
• Leeds' strengths cited are digital engineering, data science, robotics, fintech and technology-enabled care; Manchester's are healthcare, life sciences, cyber and AI.
• The company says the Leeds agreement supports its graduate recruitment pipeline for enterprise and public-sector customers in the region.

Context given

• More than 81,000 people of Indian heritage live in Yorkshire and the Humber, and 50,000 people of Indian diaspora in Greater Manchester.
• The India-UK Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) has been in force since July 2026.

How to read it

This is a business-development and market-expansion update. It sets out planned investment in the UK, job creation targets spread over three to five years, and a university partnership focused on talent. The amounts are stated in pounds sterling, and the R&D facilities in Manchester and Leeds are described as proposed, with discussions with regional partners continuing.

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