Manufacturing & Industry

62 organisations are counted with Manufacturing & Industry as their primary sector — 1 in 55 of everything with a sector on record, and the 14th largest of 16. A further 87 work in it alongside another sector.

62

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

149Work in it at all
6Sub-sectors on record
9Parishes represented
50With capabilities mapped
9Capability domains

How complete is this sector’s count?

62 counted & publishedmeasured coverage 80%

An estimated 80% of this sector’s organisations are counted. The figure is a measurement, not a target: it comes from the same independent comparison the whole census is measured by, restricted to this sector’s rows.

Island-wide, the Bailiwick’s true trading population is estimated at 4,8775,990, measured on 3 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.

A sector’s coverage is published as a percentage only. The stratum carries no confidence interval, so a sector population would be a point estimate dressed as a range — and the organisations invisible to both the census and the comparison listing pull every such estimate down.

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

Numbers you can print

#headlines

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 all149Counted over all 3,680 active organisations87 more than the 62 that call it their main line — counted in every sector they work in, so sector totals add up to more than the island does.Share-card ready
Manufacturing & Industry organisations with a website of their own65%Counted over all 62 active organisations40 of 62, against 67% island-wide — 2 points below the island rate. Verified from published evidence; businesses without a web presence are under-represented.Share-card ready
Organisations with what they do resolved to the capability graph81%A capability on record for 50 of 62 organisations (81%)50 of 62, against 71% island-wide; 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.Share-card ready
Organisations whose main line of work is Manufacturing & Industry62Of the 3,407 organisations with a primary sector (100% of 3,407)1 in 55 of the organisations with a primary sector on record — the 14th largest of 16 sectors counted.Share-card ready

The signature

#signature

Concentrated in St Sampson and Vale

St Sampson holds the most in raw terms — 18 of the 55 whose parish is on record. No single parish here is large enough to carry a quotient, but St Sampson and Vale together hold 32 of the 55, a concentration of 2.20. 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 55 of 62 Manufacturing & Industry organisations (89%)

Share vs the islandunder ½×below island share≈ island shareup to 2×over 2×
St Peter P…0.59St Sampson2.46Vale1.94CastelSt SaviourSt Pierre du BoisForestSt MartinSt 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 32 between them — a concentration of 2.20 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 2 trade on Alderney, Sark or Herm and are counted in the island split rather than on this map.

What it is made of

#composition

Engineering leads, on 25 organisations

Every organisation is counted once, in its primary sub-sector. Separately, 87 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 62 active Manufacturing & Industry organisations

Engineering25 40%Plant Hire13 21%Manufacturing11 18%Warehousing & Logistics6 10%Waste & Recycling6 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 are classified straight at sector level with no sub-sector — a real cohort, kept visible rather than folded into the largest bar. 87 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".

Where it happens

#parishes

St Sampson holds 18 of them

1 in 3 of the 55 whose parish is on record. Beyond Guernsey, Alderney 1, Sark 1.

Manufacturing & Industry organisations by parish

A parish on record for 55 of 62 Manufacturing & Industry organisations (89%)

Organisations018
St Peter P…14St Sampson18Vale14Castel2St Saviour3St Pierre du Bois1Forest1St 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 2 trade on Alderney, Sark or Herm and are counted in the island split rather than on this map.

How old it is

#age

Half of those with a founding year began after 1995

The island's median is 2006. 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 62 Manufacturing & Industry organisations (56%)

On record for 56% — indicative
01020pre-18001950–79152000–092020s

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

What they can do

#capabilities

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

81% of the sector have at least one service resolved to the graph, across 9 domains, against 71% 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.

Capability groups on record

A capability on record for 50 of 62 Manufacturing & Industry organisations (81%)

Architecture, surveying & engin…13 26%Plant hire & site equipment13 26%Business consulting & advisory12 24%Metalwork, fabrication & manufa…11 22%Specialist services7 14%Industrial & mechanical enginee…5 10%Waste & recycling5 10%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.

31 of the 50 with a capability on record span two or more of these groups (62%). 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 50 of 62 Manufacturing & Industry organisations (81%)

Engineering consulting12 24%Plant & equipment hire10 20%Civil & structural engineering9 18%Earthmoving & excavator hire6 12%Project & programme management6 12%Records & document management6 12%Welding services6 12%Mechanical engineering5 10%Metalwork & fabrication5 10%Metalwork & fabrication5 10%Powered access & site lighting…5 10%Steel & stainless fabrication5 10%

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 50 of 62 Manufacturing & Industry organisations (81%)

Organisations08
Engineering…Plant & equi…Civil & stru…Earthmoving…Project & pr…Records & do…Welding serv…Mechanical e…Metalwork &…Metalwork &…Powered acce…Steel & stai…Engineering…Plant & equi…Civil & stru…Earthmoving…Project & pr…Records & do…Welding serv…Mechanical e…Metalwork &…Metalwork &…Powered acce…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 49 of 62 Manufacturing & Industry organisations (79%)

This is what they do40 82%Core to the business22 45%One of many services12 24%A sideline1 2%

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.

The sector online

#digital

65% of Manufacturing & Industry have a website of its own

Against 67% island-wide — 2 points below the island rate. 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 62 active Manufacturing & Industry organisations

Manufacturing & IndustryThe island
0%50%100%Has a website65%67%Website on a .gg domain27%34%Links a social account of any kind54%65%Links a Facebook page49%60%

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 own40Counted over all 62 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 62 active Manufacturing & Industry organisations21 of 40, against 40% of the 2,470 island-wide. Counts the .gg family — .gg, .co.gg, .org.gg and the rest.On record for 100% — indicative

How it's organised

#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.

When it is open

#hours

The sector’s working week

18% of those publishing a weekly grid open on a Sunday, and 29% on a Saturday.

Seven days, twenty-four hours#hours-clock

Manufacturing & Industry organisations open, by day and hour

Opening hours on record for 28 of 62 Manufacturing & Industry organisations (45%)

On record for 45% — indicative
Organisations open028
00061218MonTueWedThuFriSatSunmidnight ↑

Published opening hours only; a business that does not publish hours is not counted as closed. 29 hold hours of some shape, of which 28 resolve to a weekly grid and 1 are seasonal or per-site prose that must not be half-parsed.

The register is alive

#pulse

The last 90 days

A census that was true in January is folklore by August. This chapter re-checks itself continuously.

+13
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

Journalists, researchers, sector bodies and officials are welcome to these figures. Every section has a stable anchor, and every count traces to published evidence. License: CC BY 4.0 — credit “Island Graph” with a link.

Island Graph, The Guernsey Business Census — Manufacturing & Industry, island.gg/census/manufacturing-industry — as of 3 September 2026.

The two files are the whole census, not this chapter; the figures here are this sector’s slice of them. The whole census →

Denominators, briefly

#method

This chapter counts over the 62 active organisations whose primary sector is Manufacturing & Industry 1 in 55 of the 3,407 with a primary sector on record. The wider 149 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 divides by what is actually on record for it: a parish for 55, a founding year for 35, a capability resolved to the graph for 50, opening hours that resolve to a weekly grid for 28. Those bases are printed under every chart, because the denominator is part of the datum.

This sector’s own coverage was measured at 80% on 3 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.

Counts organisations still trading that publish a founding year; older firms are likelier to do so — survivorship and reporting bias at once. Verified from published evidence; businesses without a web presence are under-represented. 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.

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