There is, of course, nothing new about de-industrialisation. Since 1978, the number of jobs in manufacturing has shrunk from 25pc of the UK workforce to around 8pc. Fewer than 3m people today work in UK manufacturing, against more than three times that number 40 years ago. Manufacturing output as a share of GDP has fallen […]
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Even before Aug. 11, China was threatening to snatch market share from other Asian competitors in the key U.S. and European export markets. Then the outlook for China’s Asian competitors worsened as the shock yuan devaluation loosened a dollar link that had kept the unit strong even while the currencies of most Asian competitors had […]
Alucast, which is a specialist supplier of sand, gravity and pressure castings, has secured TS16949 as part of its continuous improvement drive and believes this latest development will pave the way for 33 per cent growth between now and 2018. Boosted by the industry-specific approval, the company is expecting to win a number of new […]
Companies like Graphic Packaging have real labor needs and plenty of applicants, but, like so many other companies across the region, they struggle to attract and retain the level of labor quality they need. They need workers with the skills to run a multimillion-dollar printer operating system 24 hours a day. Those include mechanical aptitude, […]
The fact is that net Mexican immigration since the 2007-08 economic collapse has slowed to a trickle. Data compiled by the Pew Research Center, accepted as reasonably accurate by experts on all sides of the immigration debate, indicates that net migration from Mexico to the United States since 2007 has been zero. The numbers of […]
Another very significant area of structural weakness is what German Chancellor Angela Merkel identified when she blamed governance in the debtor nations as part of the problem. Indeed it is true that the state structure in a semi-developed and less developed nation is weak. This is especially the case with the fiscal system needed to […]
Gosh, isn’t everyone in a funk about the state of the global economy – and China in particular. If even the august and sober Financial Times trumpets: “Global stocks suffer sell off as fears intensify over Chinese slowdown”, you know the funk is official. For at least two months now, the fever has raged. […]
(NAPSI)—As part of an overall initiative to support U.S. manufacturers, Walmart is joining forces with the noted supplier-discovery and product-sourcing platform, ThomasNet.com. Walmart has committed to investing $250 billion in products that will support American jobs by 2023. It’s buying more products from U.S. companies to sell in its stores, and helping businesses reshore their […]
(NAPSI)—As part of an overall initiative to support U.S. manufacturers, Walmart is joining forces with the noted supplier-discovery and product-sourcing platform, ThomasNet.com. Walmart has committed to investing $250 billion in products that will support American jobs by 2023. It’s buying more products from U.S. companies to sell in its stores, and helping businesses reshore their […]
(NAPSI)—As part of an overall initiative to support U.S. manufacturers, Walmart is joining forces with the noted supplier-discovery and product-sourcing platform, ThomasNet.com. Walmart has committed to investing $250 billion in products that will support American jobs by 2023. It’s buying more products from U.S. companies to sell in its stores, and helping businesses reshore their […]
