Business News
Boom in business population of city
Birmingham’s business population has grown by 25 per cent since 2010, according to new figures. Research by Lloyds Bank Business Insurance reveals growth in new
enterprises across the region has been fuelled by a surge in transport and storage businesses. The report claims professional, scientific and technical businesses
were the biggest drivers of growth, accounting for 22 per cent of all new businesses set up in the region since 2010. However, the transport and storage sector was also a major
contributor to new enterprise growth, with the number of businesses in this sector almost doubling (an increase of 97 per cent) over the same period. This boom is likely to be a result of the £750m redevelopment of New Street station, which opened in 2015. Damien McGarrigle, head of business insurance at Lloyds Bank
Business Insurance, said: “Our report has uncovered strong business growth in Birmingham over the past seven years and it’s great to see investment in infrastructure benefitting so many business types. “While this growth creates new opportunities for entrepreneurs in
the region, it also means new challenges. Getting the right advice will help start-ups get off to a flying start and safeguard their businesses to avoid being exposed to potentially irreversible damage.” Ian Mclaughlan, Growth Hub manager at Greater Birmingham and
Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership, said: “We’re thrilled to see that the business population in Birmingham has grown 25 per cent since 2010. “This is testament to the region’s ongoing support for small
businesses in general. We have a thriving community of entrepreneurs and professional services in particular is booming and it’s great that tourism is getting a well-deserved boost. “It’s great to see the advances within our City reflected in this study. It’s an exciting time to be working here.”
Freight firm ensures TV show is ship shape
A documentary about the most famous rebellion on the high seas has been aired – with help from a Birmingham freight company. The documentary – Channel 4’s
Mutiny – was a re-enactment of the mutiny on HMS Bounty. In 1789, captain Lieutenant William Bligh and his men were cast adrift on the Pacific Ocean in a 23-foot long open vessel, and faced an arduous 4,000 mile journey from Tonga to Timor. The boat used for this – a 23-
foot long replica, the ‘Bounty’s End’, needed to be transported from Richmond, Surrey, to Tonga. This was arranged by Chambers
& Cook Freight. The firm’s forwarding manager Chris White said: “We had to send the boat and its trailer via freighter aircraft into Auckland using Singapore Airlines, which meant the boat had to be fumigated in order to comply with New Zealand’s stringent wood import regulations. “Once ‘Bounty’s End’ arrived in
New Zealand, we arranged for a local logistics company to load it into a 40 foot container and ship this to Nuku’alofa in Tonga, where we organised the ‘de-stuffing’ of the container and local transport to the starting point of the voyage.”
Long distance shipping:
Bounty’s End
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