The manufacturing recovery continues with home and overseas sales growing at their fastest for 15 years, according to the latest CBI survey.
 
The survey reports 36% of manufacturers seeing output increase in the last three months and only 15% reporting falls.
 
Companies are also predicting output growth remaining at the same pace with domestic and export orders forecast to grow above their long term averages.

More than half of businesses in Leeds, York and North Yorkshire are under serious pressure to increase prices as a result of rising overheads, fuel and raw material costs according to research carried out by Leeds University Business School.

But, aware of the potential impact on their competitiveness, rather than passing price rises on to customers they are working hard to find new ways of reducing overall costs and reduce…

Just Trays, the UK’s largest manufacurer of shower trays, has signed a deal with the leading supplier of quality bathrooms, tiles and plumbing materials across the Middle East and Central Asia.

The Leeds company will work with Sanipex Group to distribute its products in the United Arab Emirates and Indian markets.

The agreement, reported in the Yorkshire Evening Post, follows soon after JT’s link-up with Konig to supply…

Continued improved regional business conditions are marked in the latest Lloyds TSB Yorkshire and the Humber Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) report, despite rising raw materials cost increases continuing to affect the private sector.

According to the report, both input and new business increased strongly during the month with new orders growth the fastest since April 2004.

Phil Hawker, area director for Lloyds TSB Commercial in Yorkshire, said: “The Yorkshire and…

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Recession, according to economist Dennis Turner, is the time when even those people who had no intention of paying you stop buying. The most recent recession may be over and, while those who still have no intention of paying may be placing orders again, the more serious issue the economy faces is how we are going to pay our way as a country.

According to Turner, chief economist…

Adverse weather conditions had a major impact on the UK economy in the last quarter, according to media pundits and economists. Why has snow hit the economy so badly this winter and how come manufacturing bucked the trend?

 The year 2010 ended with job vacancies in Yorkshire and the Humber 16.6% ahead of the previous year, according to work placement company Working Links (Yorkshire Post 29 January 2010).

Job vacancies now stand at 244,000 – 2000 up on the previous three months, says the report, with energy leading the growth in vacancies and an increasing number of opportunities in retail and manufacturing.

Working Links’ regional employer solutions manager…

The CBI is calling for the Government to target 5% annual growth in the manufacturing sector as part of wide ranging proposals to secure the future of the sector set out in a new report published today.

British manufacturing continues to report strong trading conditions with indicators for output remaining at record levels for the third quarter in succession, according to the fourth quarter…

Jeff Gold, Professor of Organisation Learning, Leeds Metropolitan University and Fellow of the Northern Leadership Academy argues that the changing business support regime offers the opportunity to rethink engagement with SMEs, particularly in the ‘hard to reach’ manufacturing sector.