UK Business News

The Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply have released figures suggesting that factory output in the UK during January 2011 was at its highest since records began in 1992.
According to the report the institutes manufacturing index rose from 58.7 in December 2010 to 62 in January, the twentieth month of expansion in the sector.
Strong demand [...]

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The factory employees and management at the Land Rover plant in Solihull will be celebrating today (Thursday November 4th) as the company reaches a special landmark and the 1,000,000th Range Rover rolls of the production line.
The production line in the West Midlands has seen three generations of Range Rovers being produced at the factory over [...]

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Growing interest in the former British owned luxury marques Jaguar and Land Rover have helped the current Indian owners Tata Motors to move back into the black, recording a net profit for the three months to June 2010 of 19.9bn rupees or £273million.
Since showing losses amounting to 3.3bn rupees a year ago, Tata have seen [...]

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The host nation has been under close scrutiny in the first week or so of the South African World Cup, but the international community is not only watching the action on the pitch; they are also witnessing a South Africa that continues to emerge as a competitive 21st century economy.
As outlined in Deloitte’s paper “2010 [...]

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After its debacle in 2005, when the EPA accused CEMEX Corporation for polluting the air around its cement factory, the company has done a volte face and gone green altogether. This is a new trend, which is being observed in many American companies across all sectors.
There is a great deal of enthusiasm, of the quixotic [...]

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