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Manufacturing Executives Survey

 
 
A survey of manufacturing executives on their views of the economy and their own business’s prospects in the year ahead
 
 
 
 
 
 
2012
 
 
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With a high degree of economic uncertainty lying ahead in 2012, another year of below-trend growth seems likely. The main challenges for manufacturers stem from the unresolved Eurozone crisis, but other markets are still also still shaking off the after-effects of recession and financial crisis.
 
Manufacturers find few reasons to be cheerful about the UK economy in 2012, though many are still optimistic about their own firm-level performance in the year ahead.
 

 

 

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