The Jewellery Quarter based agency has expanded its online offering to clients by recruiting four new digital team members – responding to their clientèle’s needs. Jilly Cosgrove, Barque’s managing director, commented on the new additions to the design agency: “Barques has been going from strength to strength and with a new team in place we are able…

Chris Shellis, known to be the fashion king of Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter, has unveiled his House of Borgezie lounge furniture for the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. The Birmingham designer was sky-high, pardon the pun, when his exquisite furniture range was selected to feature in the Burj Khalifa. The 2,722…

A couple have spent over a year converting a 1920’s factory, in the Jewellery Quarter, into an unconventional holiday rental. Staying in an abandoned factory in Birmingham has never been so inviting. The Jewellery Quarter building sees its transformation into a s ‘quirky’ spacious guest house. Jonathan Fuller-Rowell and his partner Katie stumbled across the 1920’s…

Packt publishing plans to double themselves within the next three years. This is a part of the Livery Street based online publishing firm’s plan to confront online privacy issues. The firm has already doubled in expanding its staff in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter within the past two years, and being a multi-national firm, it has three hundred…

Fellows Auctioneers have opened a purpose built office space, just around the corner from the company’s headquarters on Augusta Street. Whilst their weekly auctions will be continued at Augusta Street, eighteen members of staff from Fellows Watches, Silver, Marketing and Photography departments have now moved into the new premises on 49 Frederick Street! Stephen Whittaker, their…

If you’ve visited Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter lately, you’ll definitely have noticed the construction going under-way on Warstone Lane. Development for the Golden Square, a £1.6 million public realm space has begun. The scheme is funded by Birmingham City Council,  ERDF and Planning Gains Section 106. It is being created as one of the first new…

Toye & Co, founded in 1685, designs and manufactures jewellery and identification products for governments, corporates, societies, clubs and associations. In addition to its metal-working base in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter, it also has an office in London and a textile production operation in Bedworth, Warwickshire. The deadline for the take over offer of the historic Birmingham manufacturing company, Toye…

At Birmingham Jewellery Quarter we want to give you the best we have to offer. Similarly, OK in the UK directs you to the amazing tourist attractions that are dotted all over the UK. Even the hidden gems, that you would never have known existed. Showcasing attractions since 1999, OK in the UK keeps you…

With work starting in 2011, the London-based group have acquired the second phase of residential property development in the Jewellery Quarter for £16 million. Delph bought 105 off-plan apartments from Morris Homes. The completion of the properties is due in April 2015. Head of regional acquisitions at Delph Property Group, Nicholas Belkin, said: “We always look…

TimeBank are searching for volunteers to teach basic English An exciting new project from the volunteering charity TimeBank is encouraging people in Birmingham – mainly from the Bangladeshi, Somali and Pakistani communities – to learn everyday English. 4.6% of the city’s population has poor or no English (source: DCLG).  Dave Conroy, programme manager at TimeBank’s…