Bupa Health & Wellbeing staff currently operate from around 140,000 square feet at the Anchorage and Harbour City sites within Salford Quays, but the lease expires in 2015, and the company is considering relocating.
The Manchester Evening News reports that the company has targeted significant savings on office rent but remains committed to a strong presence in the northwest of England, specifically in Greater Manchester.
Nevertheless, bosses are understood to have enlisted several Greater Manchester office agents to gather more information on potential alternatives as its current leasehold commitments near expiry.
“Bupa has had a presence in Greater Manchester for over 20 years. The area has proved a first-class location for us, and we are committed to maintaining and growing our operations here,” Roger White, director of Bupa Group Property, is quoted as saying.
“With the majority of our current lease arrangements in Salford expiring in 2015, we are looking at a range of options to provide the best work environment for our employees.”
In recent years, Salford Quays has been one of the most active areas for office space construction in the northwest of England, with the MediaCityUK development having made rapid progress. The scheme aims to establish the area as an internationally competitive media business hub, with the BBC and ITV among those moving staff to newly built locations.
In addition to Salford Quays, Bupa’s Health & Wellbeing operation employs hundreds of non-medical staff at offices in Staines, Bristol and Coventry.
Editor’s notes: Bupa chose to stay in Salford Quays and, in 2018, announced the opening of a new HQ named Bupa Place.
The 65,000-square-foot, 6-storey HQ is home to 2,000 employees and is the company’s largest staffing centre across its 190 countries of operation.
Bupa Place now houses its contact centre, health services division, HR, sales, marketing, finance, property, and IT. The move represented the company’s commitment to Greater Manchester, where it has had a foothold since 1991.
As of September 2026, Bupa remained at its £65 million Bupa Place headquarters at 102 The Quays.
Earlier in the month, it had been reported that Bupa was making an environmental impact in Salford Quays and other areas in Manchester by contributing funding towards the second phase of the Castlefield Viaduct garden and donating £100,000 to the University of Salford for the creation of a wellbeing garden on the roof of the Thrive Building, the new home for the uni’s healthcare courses.