Complexity rules for trade in 2004
13 September 2012
The shedding of jobs in a recovery, corporate ethics and the prickly problem of outsourcing could dominate next year's headlines, writes David Arminas
The UK's manufacturing sector is set for an impressive start to 2004, according to the latest purchasing managers' index (PMI) figures from CIPS and Reuters.
But statistics and data from other sources, such as the Engineering Employers' Federation, show that persistent problems contradict the positive indications. Despite a manufacturing recovery, 50,000 more...