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Less than half the components for BMW’s new Mini, which will be built at the company’s Cowley plant in Oxford, are to come from the UK. Only 40 per cent of the parts will be UK sourced, compared with 95 per cent of those for the current Mini model, which is being produced by the Phoenix consortium that recently bought part of the Rover Group from BMW.
Ireland is the most globalised country of 62 advanced economies, according to the annual Globalisation Index, produced by Foreign Policy magazine and consultancy AT Kearney. The index measures economic integration, international political engagement, personal contacts and IT use.
Michael Morgan Kogan Page, £7.99 At the start of this 150-page book, Michael Morgan compares innovation to juggling - “simply throwing some ideas in the air and seeing what happens to them will not work”.
Poor project management, large profit demands by layers of contractors and compensation payments to train operators mean that large railway projects are costing up to three times more under Railtrack than under British Rail, a study claims.