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EMA pivotal to regional growth

The Department for Business and Trade’s Minister for Services, Small Business and Exports Gareth Thomas MP, was keynote speaker at the ‘Made in the Midlands, Sold to the World’ exporter roadshow held in November in the Rolls Royce Flight Operations Centre at EMA.

Hosted by the UK Government’s Department for Business and Trade, the event brought hundreds of business leaders together with goods and services exporters, trade experts and UK government representatives, to equip them with the tools and knowledge to access new markets and grow internationally. The mayor of the East Midlands Combined County Authority, Claire Ward, also attended and spoke at the event.

EMA is the UK’s number one airfreight hub, contributing £1.6bn national GVA and supporting more than 17,000 jobs across the UK in 2023. It is connected to 185 of the world’s major cities, centrally located and running a 24/7 operation, en…

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