1. Commercial Partners Meeting
20 April 2012
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2. Agenda
1. Operational update
Neil Rami
Chief Executive, Marketing Birmingham
2. The UK Aviation Strategy
Paul Kehoe
Chief Executive, Birmingham Airport
Chairman, Marketing Birmingham
3. Questions

3. Operational update
Neil Rami
Chief Executive, Marketing Birmingham

4. Performance 2011/12
1000
900  2011/12 target - 1250 jobs
800
 2011/12 actual - 2187 jobs
700
917
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500
400
300
380 370
200 300
100
120 100
0
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5. Geographic markets
based on current live non UK prospects
and projects
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6. Successful projects 2011/12
Creating 2,187 jobs
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7. Targeted approach
Aim
Identify economic sectors / sub sectors that Business
Birmingham should target as potential sources of
business investment into the city and Greater
Birmingham & Solihull LEP (GB&S LEP)
Why
A targeted approach, matching global investment
opportunities with Birmingham and the GB&S LEP’s
business offer, helps Business Birmingham to:
 target its resources more effectively
 focus on those areas that give the city and GB&S
LEP area a competitive advantage over its
competitors worldwide

8. Looking to the future
Current sectors were tested on three grounds:
 Do forecasts suggest that these sectors will
remain the key investment sectors?
 Do priorities originally developed for Birmingham
also apply to the wider LEP?
 Any other priorities which offer opportunities?
Current sectors
Business, Professional and Financial Services
Information and Communication Technologies
Advanced Engineering
Life Sciences

9. Outcomes
Sector / Sub-sector Opportunity Global UK LEP Value for Ranking
Cluster / Function demand offer offer local
economy
Advanced Auto- Immediate:
engineering motive Auto
manufacturing
supply chain
Longer term:
Low Carbon
vehicle
Advanced Aero- Aerospace
engineering space manufacturing
supply chain
Bus, fin & Financial Back-office /
prof services shared services
services –cost reduction
while retaining
links to HQ
Bus, fin & Business UK/Regional
prof and prof HQ
services services
Logistics & Logistics & Major delivery
distribution distribution hubs

10. Sources of investment
Economic impact (short to medium term)
Higher
Built to last Global powerhouse
Financial
Business & services
professional
opportunities (current & future)
services Adv Eng Supply chain
(Auto)
Source of investment
Indigenous
Food & drink ICT
Inward
Logistics
Medtech
Low carbon
Digital media technologies
Auto software/
electronics
Bio-pharma
research
Creating the buzz Quality over quantity
Lower Source: PA analysis

11. FDI Magazine
European cities and regions of the future
1 Edinburgh UK
2 Glasgow UK
3 Amsterdam Netherlands
4 Oslo Norway
5 Helsinki Finland
6 Frankfurt Germany
7 Birmingham UK
8 Rotterdam Netherlands
9 Leipzig Germany
10 Gothenburgh Sweden
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13. 1.Free of charge
Business and
visitor economy
 Part .of Marketing
1 Free of charge
Birmingham, the city’s
strategic marketing
Business and
visitor economy
partnership 2. Value added
analysis
 Provides a comprehensive Detailed reports,
maps and briefings
package of research based
services
 Works as a strategic 3. Bespoke
partner to deliver consultancy
intelligence to inform service
business decisions
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14. Benefits
 Proprietary data and intelligence
- Sourcing and analysing official statistics
and secondary intelligence
- Utilising value added tools
- Primary research methods
 Network of experts
 Well established track record
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15. Track record
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16. Policy
Marketing Birmingham is playing a key role in shaping the
policies that will affect Birmingham in the years to come.
 Economic strategy - working with GBS LEP to develop
priorities
 Skills agenda - working with partners on the region’s skills
needs as part of the economic strategy
 Transport - helping to promote the case for HS2 and
Birmingham Airport as a credible alternative to further
expansion in the South East
 Creative City - working with partners to boost the city’s
position as a creative hub
 Acting as a strategic link - bringing together the region’s
economic priorities with the government’s policy agenda
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17. Media profile
 Generated over £15 million of media coverage
 Coverage in national and international media;
The New York Times, The Economic Times of India
and CNN
 The media is helping to shape a new view of Birmingham:
“…With an only-in-Britain tapestry of vividly multiethnic
neighbourhoods, a post-industrial urbanity that’s
gentrifying before your eyes and a food scene that can’t
be ignored, Birmingham is no longer simply flyover
country. Welcome to England’s heartland metropolis:
big-shouldered, friendly and fun.”
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18. Media coverage

19. Visitor economy
2012/13 plan

20. 2012 activity
 International Confex
 Association event,
March, Brussels
 IMEX, May, Frankfurt
 ICCA Association
Seminar, May, Frankfurt
 Association Congress,
July, Liverpool
 Square Meal, September,
London
 Ambassador programme

21. Pipeline and confirmed
 18 live bids, collective value of 70,000 bed nights
 Recent major event wins:
- IEEE Nanotechnology, 500 delegates, 3 days,
August 2012
- International scientific association, 2,000 delegates,
4 days, September 2015
- New digital event x 200 delegates, 2 days,
September 2012
- British American Business Council, 300 delegates,
3 days, May 2013

22. 2012 themes
 Culture
 Food
 Summer
 Christmas
 Digital
 Trade

23. International marketing
 Partnership with
Birmingham Airport
 International activity
- China
- India
 Route development

24. Summer 2012
 Sport, attractions, heritage
 Olympic spotlight moments
- Torch relay
- London 2012 Festival
- Live sites
- Jamaica Village
- Civic receptions
- Jamaica Farewell
 Diamond Jubilee and Pride
 20.12% GREAT campaign

25. Get involved
Marketing Birmingham provides opportunities for
Commercial Partners:
 Site selector event
 US Roadshow 2013 – EZ promotion
 International events calendar
 Digital gaming conference
 Regional Observatory
 Foodfest
 20.12% campaign
 Christmas campaign
 Meet Birmingham Showcase
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26. The UK Aviation Strategy
Paul Kehoe
CEO, Birmingham Airport
Chairman, Marketing Birmingham

27. Paul Kehoe, Chief Executive Officer

30. The opportunity
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31. The project - runway extension
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33. Runway Extension 2014
Extended to
3,000m
Extends capability to US West Coast,
South America, South East Asia and
China

35. Our key messages:
Capacity Double passenger numbers today,
triple tomorrow, quadruple
thereafter
Connectivity Britain’s best connected airport
Growth Best option for immediate growth

36. Questions &
answers