Dyson has earmarked millions for new sites in Bristol, the Philippines and Singapore as part of plans to double product offerings by 2025.
The engineering group is spending £100mln on a new Bristol technology centre, which is set to house hundreds of artificial intelligence and software engineers, while £166mln will also be pumped into the Philippines site.
Dyson will also build a new battery factory in Singapore, an announcement said, as part of the £2.75bn five-year plan.
“These investments will lay the foundation of expanding our product categories and entirely new fields of products for Dyson,” chief executive Roland Krueger commented.
New plans will follow Dyson’s previous moves to largely house production overseas, while keeping research and development sites in the UK, following founder James Dyson’s controversial decision to relocate in 2019 despite being a key supporter of Brexit.
He also lashed out at the government in January, arguing companies would “simply choose to transfer jobs and invest elsewhere” in response to rising corporate tax rates.
The vacuum cleaner company already employs 3,500 people across sites in London and Malmesbury in the UK, with the new Bristol centre set to be converted from existing Dyson office space.
Some 400 engineers will be hired for the Philippines centre, though Dyson did not clarify the number of new prospective roles at its Bristol site.
Investment in the Singapore factory will be Dyson’s largest ever in “advanced manufacturing”, with the site set to produce the “next-generation battery technology [to] drive a major revolution in the performance and sustainability of Dyson’s machines”, the founder added.