Acton and Park Royal are home to more London Living Wage-accredited businesses than any other part of the borough.
In fact, 40% of our borough’s accredited organisations are based there.
By becoming London Living Wage accredited, these employers have committed to paying their workers a fair wage and, in return, they benefit from better productivity and staff retention.
We spoke to some of the accredited businesses based in Park Royal – the UK’s largest industrial estate, covering an area equivalent to the City of London – to find out what it is about the area that makes it right for them.
Wellworking
Wellworking, an award-winning supplier of office and home office furniture, is based at Western Avenue Business Park. Its managing director, Luke Munro, thinks location is key to the company’s ongoing success.
“Wellworking has been the UK’s number 1 rated office furniture company in terms of customer feedback in each of the last 10 years, and much of that is down to our location near Park Royal,” he said. “The road network close by allow us to fulfil our 1-hour delivery timeslots to offices and homes all over the southeast in over 98% of our deliveries.”
Wellworking took home the ‘Sustainable Business of the Year’ prize in Ealing Council’s London Living Wage Awards 2025. The judges were impressed by the tailored approach being taken by Wellworking to help both customers and staff make more sustainable choices.
L’AQUILA
L’AQUILA supplies Mediterranean vegetable ingredients to leading food manufacturers, foodservice, catering, wholesalers, and retail operators. The company has gone from strength to strength since it was founded in 1987 by owner Nadia Howell. It has operated from a bespoke 9,000 square foot office and warehouse in Coronation Road since 2001.
Nadia said: “L’AQUILA chose to be based in Park Royal because of the excellent motorway connections serving the regions, the direct road route into central London on the A40 and having 2 underground stations (Park Royal and Hanger Lane) nearby. The area is also very well served with buses. That all makes deliveries and recruitment easier. The food-centric estate is also home to many of our customers.”
Doughlicious
Park Royal is also home to a cluster of rapidly growing micro, small, and medium sized companies in the food manufacturing sector that are pioneering new products. This includes cookie dough products producer Doughlicious – The London Dough Co., which benefited from the council’s Pioneer Fund in 2022 and is continuing to grow and innovate.
Kathryn Bricken is the company’s CEO and founder. “Having our factory in Park Royal has been instrumental to our success,” she said. “This strategic location has enabled us to build and maintain an exceptional team of star employees who have stayed with us for years, thanks to the convenient proximity to their homes and excellent accessibility via various train lines. This location gives us both the stability of a dedicated workforce and the creative inspiration needed to continue our mission of changing what’s possible in indulgent snacking.”
POW
Park Royal Open Workshop, or POW, was awarded ‘Creative Business of the Year’ in the borough’s London Living Wage Awards 2025.
POW is a not-for-profit, open-access workshop and makerspace, offering 5000sqft of professional woodworking and metalworking machines, CNC fabrication, laser cutting, and digital tech, for makers to learn and create.
Alex Rincon is POW’s founder. He told us: “POW began as a response to the significant challenges faced by artists, designers, and makers in the creative industry. For example, less than 20% of makers come from low socioeconomic backgrounds, and only 1.2% of revenue-generating artists are female. POW houses professional-grade tools that would otherwise be prohibitively expensive.
“Last year, we doubled our revenue every quarter and, by the end of April, we will have doubled our floorspace. We’re super positive about our future here.”
Helping businesses to thrive
In summer 2024, our borough become the first London Living Wage Place in west London.
Councillor Kamaljit Nagpal, the council’s cabinet member for decent living incomes, said: “Almost 100 local employers now pay the London Living Wage, with many more in the accreditation pipeline. We now want more organisations to start reaping the rewards of paying the London Living Wage – it’s good for business, and good for Ealing.”
Get accredited
Companies are being offered incentives and support, through a scheme set up by the council to help more businesses become accredited.
This includes free staff training, marketing advice, and promotion. Find out more by emailing invest@ealing.gov.uk or fill in a short online form to express an interest in becoming an accredited employer.
