Does the UK manufacturing make anything anymore?
Make UK’s annual analysis of the UK Manufacturing sector shows it is the 9th largest manufacturing nation in the world, with £183B of annual output.
UK manufacturing mergers and acquisitions deals jump by a third surpassing pre-pandemic levels
Advisory firm BDO has found that mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions involving UK manufacturers jumped by almost a third in 2021. This is more surprising that dealmaking surpasses pre-pandemic levels.
The National Dilemma of the UK Steel Industry
Our founder, Nick Leeder’s grandfather-in-law was the General Secretary of the Nation Union of Blastfurancemen (NUB) in the UK in the 1970’s. He was a Welshman through and through and proud of the steel making industry in the country. At the start of the 1980’s he led the Union workers in industrial action against the then Conservative …