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Birmingham Means Business
Just 10 Reasons Why

• Access to 4,300,000 people of working age population within a one hour drive of the city centre
• Over 64,000 undergraduates attend the city's five universities with access to a talent pool of 50,000 graduates from the wider West Midlands region
• 65,000 strong financial and business services sector
• Second highest retail spend in England
• World standard research excellence in medical technologies and advanced engineering
• Entirely digital telecoms network
• Gross Value Added for the wider region of some £85 billion
• Over 98% of the UK market - customers and businesses - lie within a 4 hour drive of the city
• Air, road and rail connections provide access to 400 million people in the rest of Europe
• 126 direct destinations from Birmingham Airport

Source: Business Birmingham