Outsourcing option could save Ericsson’s UK plants_3
18 July 2012
The threatened UK manufacturing plants of mobile telephone company Ericsson could get a reprieve if the local management team is successful in promoting its services as an outsourcing supplier.
“We need to determine whether it is feasible for us to generate our own workbook and set up a new firm for other companies that have overcapacity,” Yvonne Duchar, contracts buyer for Ericsson, told SM. “With the tight timescale, we are only looking in our own sector, although there is a feeling that we could diversify if we had the work.”
The only realistic...