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The Hub The Hub What’s on at Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce Your four-page


pull-out guide to recent and forthcoming Chamber Events


That winning feeling…


Three cheers for us…award winners were in a celebratory mood at the Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce annual dinner, held at the International Convention Centre. Nearly 1,000 guests attended the evening,


hosted by broadcaster, author, actor, broadcaster and former government minister Gyles Brandreth. They heard Greg Lowson, president of Birmingham Chamber, say that the city and the West Midlands an ‘incredibly exciting’ future - leaving other UK regions in the shade with unprecedented foreign investment. He said that a total of 73 overseas projects


had created 4,800 jobs across the region in the last year, the highest of any LEP area, He added that Birmingham was the ‘most investable city’


in the country and the sixth most attractive to European investors. And domestically, over 14,000 start-ups launched new business ventures in 2015. The region’s £29 billion export performance


last year – the third highest in the UK - also won praise whilst the region was the only one in the UK to boast a trade surplus with China. And Mr Lowson, Head of Pinsent Masons Birmingham office, highlighted a string of key developments from the opening of Grand Central and the extension of the airport runway through to the launch of Resorts World at the NEC, the ‘continued, incredible’ growth of JLR and HSBC’s HQ switch to Birmingham in 2018, creating 1,400 new jobs.


Mr Lowson also paid tribute to the progress of


the CSR City initiative, which is designed to deliver and coordinate corporate social responsibility across the city and region, the first phase of which is a programme for better engagement between business and education. GBCC chief executive Paul Faulkner, who took


over at the helm of the business group exactly a year ago, said: “Twelve months on and I feel very proud of what the Chamber team have achieved in a relatively short space of time. Membership has grown by eight per cent in the past year to over 2,600 and we’re now looking to build on that and reach 4,000 members by 2019.”


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Birmingham Chamber Event Partners


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Picture: Marc Kirsten


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