A local electronic security company, Oracle Vision Ltd are enjoying all the benefits of the Hemsworth based Cedars Business Centre after recently moving there in early May 2010.Before this they operated from an office based in their home in Upton.

Cambridge Correlators Ltd. (CCL) is a technology start-up company developing a revolutionary patented technology that uses light to process vast amounts of image or pattern data at speeds far beyond the capabilities of equivalent electronic systems.

The Cedars Business Incubation Centre in Hemsworth was selected to take part in a Business Link funded benchmarking exercise carried out by the United Kingdom Business Incubation organisation that accredits and benchmarks Business Incubation activities nationally as well as monitoring the international and global incubation industry.

Following the setting up of the Economic Taskforce, which includes Wakefield Council, Wakefield development agency first and others to pool together resources and knowledge to provide businesses with a credit crunch helpline to advice and guide companies and individuals with practical support to survive the current economic downturn.