The Growth Centre has a potential to employ 10,000 people directly and a few thousands indirectly through the ancillary industries.
Sieber was a home to the mining industry, but also to ancillary industries such as grinding shops.
With its ancillary industries, it employs 100,000 people.
The early coal mines in Plymouth supported an ancillary industry, boat building.
The proposal would embrace not only those who lose their jobs when factories close but workers in ancillary industries as well.
The situation further worsened when thousands of people who were earlier engaged in ancillary industries in some form or the other also lost their job.
It supports an extensive ancillary industry of gyms, nutritionists and personal trainers.
Everyone involved in this crisis has suffered: producers, consumers and the ancillary industries.
In addition, another 400,000 people are employed in ancillary industries.
This has to do with the extremely heavy capital investment required to build a modern whaling fleet and its ancillary industries.