High Value Consumer Products
Our region provides a fertile business environment that encourages individuals with design-led ethics and imaginative ambitions. Unique consumer products, innovative design and manufacturing processes in Ceramics, Jewellery, Glass, Leather Goods, Clothing, Furniture, and Carpets mean the Consumer Products industry in the West Midlands is like no other in the world.
Sector Strengths:
- Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter has skilled goldsmiths and jewellery makers who manufacture 70% of all jewellery in the UK. The Jewellery Industry Innovation Centre
- Walsall is home to the British saddle with over 80 equestrian industry companies based here.
- Stourbridge has a strong concentration of the regions glass companies
- The clothing industry, based around the Black Country, Birmingham and Coventry, consists of 600 companies employing 11,000 people
- There are 2,100 furniture companies employing some 22,000 people throughout the region
- We lead in the innovation/contemporary design led products industry
