BIRMINGHAM CITY CENTRE, BIRMINGHAM

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Description:

Traditional industries remain important to the region’s success, but now, through highly effective diversification, the New Birmingham is a major centre for telecommunications, information technology and the development of knowledge-based industries, with companies such as Vodafone, Cap Gemini, BPS Teleperformance and Specialist Computer Holdings.

Companies from across the globe are recognising the advantages of a base at the heart of the UK. Investment by overseas-owned companies in the city is strong, with over 300 companies choosing Birmingham as their preferred location.

Birmingham is also Britain’s number one exhibition, conference and event city - having hosted the G8 Conference of world leaders and the Lions International Convention - and, served by Birmingham International Airport, is increasingly a mecca for business and leisure tourism. Twenty-two million business and leisure tourists visit Birmingham each year.

New Birmingham, home to the biggest financial and professional services community in the United Kingdom outside London, employing over 60,000 people, is, however, more than just a thriving business city. It is a vibrant, multi-cultural society, currently regenerating itself with spectacular redevelopments in greater Birmingham worth over £11 billion. It is a city where people like to live, work and enthusiastically play.   Birmingham is a city with an emphasis on youth - over a third of its population being aged 24 and under.  It has a catchment area of over 500,000 people within a 25 mins drive to the city.

Economic forecasts predict that between 2001 and 2010, economic growth in Birmingham will accelerate to 2.5% per annum.  74% of the City's employment is now in sectors where job numbers are forecast to increase over the next ten years.

The City’s three universities - the University of Birmingham, Aston University and The University of Central England - have a total student population of over 56,000, and a graduate population of over 17,000 an increase of 8.7% and 16.9% respectively over the previous year.

Birmingham International Airport is one of the UK’s fastest growing airports, handling 7.8 million passengers in 2001, an increase of nearly 3% over the previous year. This is despite the impact on air travel following recent terrorist attacks.  The airport is the 2nd largest UK airport outside London, the 3rd largest for charter traffic, and the UK's 5th largest overall.  The airport’s £260 million expansion programme is underway, with the second phase already complete. Facilities will handle a projected 10 million passengers by 2005.  Birmingham International Airport has been voted best UK Business Airport 4 times in the past 6 years.

Road Access:

51 miles south west of Nottingham

5 miles from M6

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57 Livery Street

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