Today, Birmingham is a vibrant, thriving and cosmopolitan city. Its enviable central positioning means it offers excellent and unrivalled domestic, European and international transport links. 

• A large and diverse skilled workforce base - 2.8 million within a 40 minute drive time
• £11.4 million regeneration programme up to 2010
• Home to over 31,000 companies
• Home to Europe’s largest in-door regeneration project - the £1 billion Bullring shopping centre
• In the past twenty years, £9 billion has been spent on regenerating the city
• Home to the largest financial and creative districts outside London
• Birmingham generates more wealth than Glasgow, Manchester and Leeds and manufacturing in the city accounts for 25% of British exports
• An estimated 17.3 million day visitors came to Birmingham in 2004, spending over £509 million

In short, Birmingham today is a truly international destination. It’s not the UK’s second city, more the UK’s central city.