Scale

With a diverse resident population of over one million people, Birmingham offers businesses the opportunity to draw upon vast experience and a multitude of skills. Within a 60 minute catchment of the city there is in excess of 4,300,000 economically active people.

Birmingham’s scale is the key advantage for organisations looking to relocate. It ensures that relocated public and private sector organisations are:

• Easily absorbed into the local economy and infrastructure 
• Able to draw upon a wealth of experience from the existing population 
• Encouraged to capitalise on a workforce with a range of backgrounds, promoting a greater exchange of ideas and innovation 
• Presented with a diverse range of available office developments which vary in location and specification
• Exposed to a diverse local economy boasting 42,000  companies from motor cars to manufacturing, electronics to computing, the latest breakthroughs in technology and a fast-growing business, financial and professional services sector that employs over 100,000 people 
• Provided with additional support from an established public sector community with a range of existing organisations having regional and national headquarters in the city