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The Guernsey Business CensusChapter 15 of 16

Manufacturing & Industry

59 organisations are counted with Manufacturing & Industry as their primary sector — 2% of everything with a sector on record, and the 15th largest of 16. A further 27 organisations work in it alongside another sector.

As of 30 September 2026⧉ Cite this chapterBrowse the Manufacturing & Industry directory← The whole census

The count

59

organisations counted with Manufacturing & Industry as their primary sector, across the Bailiwick’s four inhabited islands.

86Work in it at all
5Sub-sectors on record
9Parishes represented
46With capabilities mapped
9Capability domains

Coverage

#coverage ⧉

How complete is this sector’s count?

59 counted & publishedmeasured coverage 79%

An estimated 79% of this sector’s organisations are counted — mid-table on measured coverage: joint 10th of the 16 sectors.

Every count in this chapter is a floor, never a total.

How coverage is measured →

Headline figures

#headlines ⧉

The figures you can quote

The figures in this chapter that clear the citable bar — coverage high enough, count large enough, denominator named. A figure that does not clear it appears further down as a chart, badged, or not at all.

Organisations working in Manufacturing & Industry at all86Counted over all 3,616 active organisations27 more than the 59 that call it their main line — counted in every sector they work in, so sector totals add up to more than the island does.
Manufacturing & Industry organisations with a website of their own64%Counted over all 59 active organisations38 of 59, against 67% island-wide — 3 points below the island rate, mid-table on own-site rate: 10th of the 15 sectors where it can be counted. Verified from published evidence; businesses without a web presence are under-represented.
Organisations with what they do resolved to the capability graph78%A capability on record for 46 of 59 organisations (78%)46 of 59, against 71% island-wide, the 3rd-highest capability coverage of the 13 sectors where it can be counted; a median of 3 capabilities each against 3 island-wide. Capabilities as published by each organisation and resolved to the graph; a business with no capability claim is not necessarily a business that does none of these things.
Organisations whose main line of work is Manufacturing & Industry59Of the 3,582 organisations with a primary sector (100% of 3,582)2% of the organisations with a primary sector on record — the 15th largest of 16 sectors counted.

What stands out

#signature ⧉

Where this sector concentrates

St Sampson holds the most in raw terms — 16 of the 53 whose parish is on record. A quotient of one means the same mix as the island, which is the commonest reading and should look like nothing. Smaller parishes are drawn but not named: below 30 organisations a quotient moves on a single new record.

Concentration, not headcount#signature-parish-lq ⧉

Where Manufacturing & Industry is over- and under-represented

A parish on record for 53 of 59 Manufacturing & Industry organisations (90%)

Share vs the islandunder ½×below island share≈ island shareup to 2×over 2×
St Peter P…0.57St Sampson2.29Vale1.90Castel—St Saviour—St Pierre du Bois—Forest—St Martin—St Andrew—

Tap a parish for its full name and count — at this size some shapes are too small to carry a label. Every parish is in the table.

A location quotient: this sector's share of a parish against its share of the island. A quotient of one means "the same mix as the island", and should look like nothing. Hatched parishes hold too few of this sector to compare at all, and parishes holding fewer than 30 are drawn and tabled but never named in a sentence — a quotient over a handful moves on one new record.

St Sampson and Vale hold 29 between them — a concentration of 2.10 against the same two parishes' share of everything counted. Neither parish is large enough on its own for a quotient to survive one new record, so the block is what the prose names; both cells stay drawn, tabled and exported. 5 Guernsey organisations in this sector have no parish on record — a real gap, not an exclusion, and the map fills in as verification proceeds; a further 1 organisation trades on Alderney, Sark or Herm and is counted in the island split rather than on this map.

Sub-sectors

#composition ⧉

Engineering leads, on 23 organisations

Every organisation is counted once, in its primary sub-sector. Separately, 27 organisations outside this count work in Manufacturing & Industry alongside another sector — they are not in the bars below.

Primary sub-sector#composition-l2 ⧉

Manufacturing & Industry by sub-sector

Counted over all 59 active Manufacturing & Industry organisations

Engineering23 39%Manufacturing15 25%Plant Hire14 24%Warehousing & Logistics6 10%Direct at sector level1 2%

Counts each organisation's primary sub-sector, so the bars sum to the sector, and each is the roll call the directory lists under that name.

1 organisation is classified straight at sector level with no sub-sector — a real cohort, kept visible rather than folded into the largest bar. 27 further organisations work in Manufacturing & Industry alongside another sector and are not in these bars: each is counted in the sub-sector of the sector it calls its main line. "Works in", never "is in".

Parishes

#parishes ⧉

St Sampson holds 16 Manufacturing & Industry organisations

30% of the 53 whose parish is on record. Off Guernsey: 1 on Sark.

Headcount#parishes-count ⧉

Manufacturing & Industry organisations by parish

A parish on record for 53 of 59 Manufacturing & Industry organisations (90%)

Organisations016
St Peter P…13St Sampson16Vale13Castel2St Saviour3St Pierre du Bois1Forest3St Martin1St Andrew1

Tap a parish for its full name and count — at this size some shapes are too small to carry a label. Every parish is in the table.

Guernsey parishes only; Alderney, Sark and Herm are counted in the island split above.

5 Guernsey organisations in this sector have no parish on record — a real gap, not an exclusion, and the map fills in as verification proceeds; a further 1 organisation trades on Alderney, Sark or Herm and is counted in the island split rather than on this map.

Founding years

#age ⧉

How old it is

Counts organisations still trading that publish a founding year; older firms are likelier to do so — survivorship and reporting bias at once.

Founding era#age-eras ⧉

Manufacturing & Industry organisations by founding era

A founding year on record for 35 of 59 Manufacturing & Industry organisations (59%)

On record for 59% — indicative
01020pre-18001950–79172000–092020s

Counts organisations still trading that publish a founding year; older firms are likelier to do so — survivorship and reporting bias at once.

Half of those with a founding year began after 1993. The island's median is 2006.

Capabilities

#capabilities ⧉

The typical mapped organisation holds 3 capabilities, against 3 island-wide

78% of the sector have at least one service resolved to the graph, across 9 domains, against 71% island-wide, the 3rd-highest capability coverage of the 13 sectors where it can be counted. Capabilities as published by each organisation and resolved to the graph; a business with no capability claim is not necessarily a business that does none of these things.

By group#capability-groups ⧉

Capability groups on record

A capability on record for 46 of 59 Manufacturing & Industry organisations (78%)

Architecture, surveying & engin…15 33%Plant hire & site equipment15 33%Metalwork, fabrication & manufa…11 24%Business consulting & advisory10 22%Industrial & mechanical enginee…5 11%Specialist services4 9%Recruitment, training & coaching1 2%Risk, regulatory & compliance1 2%

Capabilities as published by each organisation and resolved to the graph; a business with no capability claim is not necessarily a business that does none of these things.

29 of the 46 with a capability on record span two or more of these groups (63%). Two capabilities inside one group are one trade, not two, which is why this counts groups rather than nodes.

The busiest nodes#capability-nodes ⧉

What the most organisations are on record for

A capability on record for 46 of 59 Manufacturing & Industry organisations (78%)

Engineering consulting14 30%Plant & equipment hire12 26%Civil & structural engineering10 22%Earthmoving & excavator hire6 13%Groundworks & foundations6 13%Powered access & site lighting…6 13%Project & programme management6 13%Welding services6 13%Mechanical engineering5 11%Metalwork & fabrication5 11%Metalwork & fabrication5 11%Steel & stainless fabrication5 11%

An organisation on two of these is counted on both, so the rows add up to more than the number of organisations.

What goes with what#capability-pairs ⧉

Capabilities held together

A capability on record for 46 of 59 Manufacturing & Industry organisations (78%)

Organisations09
Engineering…Plant & equi…Civil & stru…Earthmoving…Groundworks…Powered acce…Project & pr…Welding serv…Mechanical e…Metalwork &…Metalwork &…Steel & stai…Engineering…Plant & equi…Civil & stru…Earthmoving…Groundworks…Powered acce…Project & pr…Welding serv…Mechanical e…Metalwork &…Metalwork &…Steel & stai…

Each cell counts the organisations on record for both capabilities; the diagonal is blank on purpose. Capabilities as published by each organisation and resolved to the graph; a business with no capability claim is not necessarily a business that does none of these things.

How central is it?#capability-roles ⧉

Is this what they do, or one of many things they do?

A positioning note on record for 44 of 59 Manufacturing & Industry organisations (75%)

This is what they do35 80%Core to the business23 52%One of many services13 30%A sideline2 5%

The roles overlap: one business can be “this is what they do” for one capability and “a sideline” for another, so these rows add up past the number of businesses.

Online presence

#digital ⧉

64% of Manufacturing & Industry organisations have a website of their own

Against 67% island-wide — 3 points below the island rate, mid-table on own-site rate: 10th of the 15 sectors where it can be counted. The gap is the robust part: the sector’s own rate is measured over the organisations we have found, and the ones still missing are disproportionately the web-invisible.

Sector against island#digital-vs-island ⧉

Digital presence, this sector and the island

Counted over all 59 active Manufacturing & Industry organisations

Manufacturing & IndustryThe island
0%50%100%Has a website64%67%Website on a .gg domain27%36%Links a social account of any kind50%56%Links a Facebook page47%53%

Each track carries both values at its ends; the gap between manufacturing & industry and the island is in the table view. Measured in share of organisations.

Verified from published evidence; businesses without a web presence are under-represented.

Each row is a share of all organisations counted, in the sector and island-wide — not a share of those with a website, so the rows are comparable with one another. 1 further row is not drawn: a platform on record for fewer than 15 organisations here moves several points on one new record, which is wider than the gap it would be read against.

Manufacturing & Industry organisations with a website of their own38Counted over all 59 active Manufacturing & Industry organisationsA site of their own on record — not a directory listing or a social page.
Of those websites, the share on a .gg domain1 in 2Counted over all 59 active Manufacturing & Industry organisations21 of 38, against 40% of the 2,432 island-wide. Counts the .gg family — .gg, .co.gg, .org.gg and the rest.21 organisations — too few to headline

Legal form and ownership

#form ⧉

Legal form, ownership and size — as far as they are published

These are published far less often than a phone number. Each module below states its own coverage, and renders the gap rather than a confident number over a silent base.

Legal form#form-legal ⧉

Manufacturing & Industry organisations by legal form

A legal form on record for 42 of 59 Manufacturing & Industry organisations (71%)

Limited company41 98%Sole trader1 2%

Sole traders are the systematic undercount here: a limited company publishes its form, a sole trader rarely does.

A further 2 organisations hold something in the legal-form slot that is not a legal form — filing notes, a bare year. Those leave the denominator rather than inflating “other”.

Opening hours

#hours ⧉

The sector’s working week

Seven days, twenty-four hours#hours-clock ⧉

Manufacturing & Industry organisations open, by day and hour

Opening hours on record for 27 of 59 Manufacturing & Industry organisations (46%)

On record for 46% — indicative
Organisations open027
00061218MonTueWedThuFriSatSunmidnight ↑

19% of those publishing a weekly grid open on a Sunday, and 1 in 3 on a Saturday. Published opening hours only; a business that does not publish hours is not counted as closed. 28 hold hours of some shape, of which 27 resolve to a weekly grid and 1 are seasonal or per-site prose that must not be half-parsed.

Newly verified

#pulse ⧉

The last 90 days

+12
Manufacturing & Industry organisations added to the register (discovery, not openings)
0
recorded as no longer trading in the window

Use these numbers

#use ⧉

Free to reuse, with attribution

Every section has a stable anchor and every count traces to published evidence — licence CC BY 4.0, credit “Island Graph” with a link.

census.csvsector × parishcensus.jsonevery aggregatedata.jsonthe Q3 2026 editionAbout the dataFull methodologyPress desk
Island Graph, The Guernsey Business Census — Manufacturing & Industry, Q3 2026 edition, island.gg/census/2026-q3/manufacturing-industry — frozen 30 September 2026.

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How this chapter counts

#method ⧉

The bases every figure here divides by

This chapter counts over the 59 active organisations whose primary sector is Manufacturing & Industry — 2% of the 3,582 with a primary sector on record; the wider 86 who work in Manufacturing & Industry at all are counted in every sector they work in, and are used only where a sentence says “works in”. Each module then divides by what is actually on record for it — a parish for 53, a founding year for 35, a capability resolved to the graph for 46, opening hours that resolve to a weekly grid for 27 — and those bases are printed under every chart, because the denominator is part of the datum.

This sector’s own coverage was measured at 79% on 30 September 2026, by capture–recapture against Google's business listings for the Bailiwick, with every organisation that was itself added from those listings left out of the comparison so the two counts stay independent. Every count above is a floor.

This chapter’s row on the evidence map — what each module here may and may not claim →

Full methodology — populations, tiers, biases and how coverage is measured →