Birmingham Markets play a critical role in the national food-supply chain  

Visiting the Wholesale Markets (Friday, 18th November, 2011), Gisela Stuart, MP for Edgbaston, commented that she was impressed by the vibrancy and dynamism she saw in the Markets.  “The scale and range of business links with the wider economy, but above all in the City Centre, ensures that the Markets are an essential catalyst allowing enterprises further down the food supply chain to create growth, value and jobs.  Supporting an estimated 15,000 jobs across the Midlands and Wales, the Markets are a vibrant cluster of medium-sized enterprises that offers considerable opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship.  A cluster the Second City needs to effectively harness to provide a stimulus for sustainable regeneration of the Digbeth area, and the type of cluster of established, successful medium-sized enterprises that other British cities struggle to create.” Meeting...