International car manufacturing plant in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.

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.

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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 …