Principal Sponsors
Birmingham City Council
The Development and Resource Directorates have joined forces through their Creative Development Team and Digital Birmingham (Service Birmingham) to support the collaboration between Creatives and Industry, utilising design and digital technology skills, to produce new products and services, thus profiling Birmingham as a Creative and European Digital City.The Royal Bank of Scotland
The Royal Bank of Scotland Group is one of the world’s largest financial services groups. It has a number of specialist and experienced property teams operatingthroughout the UK, including Birmingham, delivering financial solutions to the regional property and construction markets across the country.The teams provide tailored financial solutions to cover all aspects of property transactions. A key aspect of the team’s proposition is that they are structured to offer their local property markets what it needs.
Rider Levett Bucknall
Rider Levett Bucknall is a professional construction and property consultancy with 350 staff employed throughout the UK. The organisation specialises in project management, cost management, building surveying and regeneration – key areas of expertise that have helped it to work on some of the UK’s most exciting and familiar building projects.Rider Levett Bucknall prides itself on delivering quality services and collaborative working together to achieve excellence. Cultivating relationships is at the heart of how the organisation works, to ensure that it can understand its clients’ needs and add real value to make a real difference.
European Union
The BDI, Industry & Genius Awards 2007 is part funded through the European Social Fund. NetInfinity
NetInfinity supports aspirational product manufacturers and designers from the regions traditional sectors such as glass, leather goods, jewellery and silverware, carpets, furniture, clothing, ceramics and designer-makers.
The organisation works with West Midlands businesses to combine the themes of creativity, design and innovation to develop a community of creative design-rich and market-led companies who recognise the economic benefits of collaboration.
The project is funded through Advantage West Midlands and the European Regional Development Fund.
Media Partner – The Birmingham Post
The Birmingham Post is the home of broadsheet journalism in the Midlands. Its daily coverage of politics, business, sport and culture is aimed at region’s wealth creators and policy makers. It is regarded as one of the most influential regional newspapers in the UK.Products & Genius categories
Jewellery & Silversmithing(07 sponsor = open for sponsorship)
Ceramics & Glass
Luxury Products
Interior Products
Industrial Design
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Places & Genius categories
Architecture
Urban Design
Conservation
Landscape Design
(07 sponsor = open for sponsorship)
Green Design
Interior Design
(07 sponsor = open for sponsorship)
Goody bag Sponsor
