Global consultancy firm Bain & Company’s biennial survey includes insights from 166 CEOs and COOs, primarily from companies generating revenues over $1bn, and a substantial portion from those exceeding $5bn and $10bn. Results from the study indicates a significant uptick in companies either planning or actively engaging in reshoring and nearshoring initiatives. The report also […]
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In our featured interview this month, former deputy chief pharmaceutical officer Bruce Warner gave The Pharmaceutical Journal a rare glimpse of hope for the future of medicine shortages. While the issue will never be eradicated, Warner says that the situation can be improved by implementing systems and processes that keep the impact on patients “reduced to the […]
Dive Brief: Dive Insight: With President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to impose tariffs during his administration, shippers and supply chain managers are revising their trade strategies — which could come at a higher cost. “We’re looking ahead to a period that we think will be very active for trade policy. That’s going to cause a lot […]
BOSTON, Nov. 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — An acceleration in strategic reshoring moves by businesses worldwide to shift operations and supply chains closer to their home or main markets, is revealed by new Bain & Company research released today. Amid intensified geopolitical uncertainties and rising costs, analysis from Bain’s biennial operations survey of CEOs and chief […]
Medicines shortages have presented the government, pharmacists and patients with one crisis after another in recent years. For example, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder medicines, antiepileptics, the pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy Creon (pancreatin; Mylan) and diabetes medicines — such as insulin and glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs) — have all been subject to shortages in the UK […]
Welcome to the Business Post’s Live News section. Here’s your chance to catch up on today’s developments in business, tech and current affairs. 16.50 – FTSE finishes trading in red, while Dax closes in the green Across the Irish sea, the FTSE closed in the red, down 0.24 per cent to 8,146.93. IMI, the London-listed […]
Former President Donald Trump is projected to have secured the necessary 270 Electoral College votes to win the 2024 presidential election. With this victory, Trump is set to return to the White House for a second term following his first stint from 2017 to 2021. Trump’s win came after a highly competitive campaign against his […]
The research led by UB School of Economics researchers Rosina Moreno and Raúl Ramos and PhD alumni Akin Cilekoglu examines data from 2006 to 2016, focusing on how firms’ sourcing strategies—both from domestic and foreign suppliers—were affected by the introduction of robots. The study, named “The Impact of Robot Adoption on Global Sourcing”, which investigates the impact of robots […]
(Bloomberg) — Europe’s investors are bracing for a potential victory for Donald Trump, which last time around drove the sharpest underperformance in regional equities relative to US peers during any of the last eight American administrations. The protectionist policies the Republican candidate could unleash on Europe’s export-reliant industries if he defeats the Democrats’ Kamala Harris […]
This bipartisan consensus reflects a growing trend among economists and experts, who are now revising the unfettered free-trade and laissez-faire attitudes that defined U.S. economic policymaking for decades. As President Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and co-author Jennifer Harris noted in a recent op-ed, “advocating for industrial policy—broadly speaking, government actions aimed at […]
