Cambridge is the home of several international and nationally recognized industries. The following list indicates the major employers in Cambridge

Economic performance is also reflected in construction activity. Building Permit construction values reflect this activity and are summarized in the table below. The figures show a healthy balance of activity and solid growth in all four sectors. The average annual construction value activity of over the past ten years is $356.5 million.

The City of Cambridge is actively involved in promoting industrial growth through the development of industrial subdivisions and the sale of land.  Overall Cambridge has approximately 33 million square feet of industrial space on more than 2500 acres of industrial land.

Cambridge has developed three Business Parks in the city  

• Eastern Industrial Park (built in the 1960's)
• L.G. Lovell Industrial Park (built in the 1970's)
• Cambridge Business Park, (built in the 1980's) and included an investment by Toyota for their 3.1 million square foot assembly operation.

The City's newest industrial subdivision Boxwood Business Campus was complete in 2014 and created 109 acres of serviced industrial land.  

Other areas recently developed include the Maple Grove Industrial Subdivision, a 175-acre expansion completed in 2002 in the Cambridge Business Park; and the Pinebush Industrial Subdivision, a 108-acre extension of the L.G. Lovell Park completed in 2001 and Pinebush Phase 2 which provided an additional 22 serviced lots (58 acres) in 2006.

 History of city owned industrial land sales

In the 1990's, 245 acres of city-owned land were sold for industrial development, and from 2000 onwards nearly 700 acres have been sold.  A summary of the history of City-owned industrial land sales is shown in the following table: