(11 Nov 2023, 9:30 pm)Storx wrote Aye possible, does anyone actually know if there's anyone senior actually based there as usually the HQ rather than the registered address is their base which is the London office.

I think Barbour and Fishermen's Friends still have their HQ at both don't they? 

Yeah, well and it's always been there to be fair. Why move you're whole team for the sake of it - plus the rent is cheap aswell. I always find it odd that the First HQ is basically still just an office slammed on the side of their main depot in Aberdeen. Not even a nice shiny building in a business park or in the city centre. Suppose could pay for your staff not wasting money on offices in central London or Grey Street.

Yeah, that was my point. 
The historical and political locations are often used for PR, Marketing and other reasons.

To move may not mean much on paper, but has the potential to cause issues from other perspectives.

There's probably many others locally, such as Greggs who could quite easily move away from their traditional heartlands.
Then you've got S&N following the purchase by Heineken and the reputational damage caused to Newcastle Brown Ale by moving production elsewhere