Manufacturing grows while other sectors slow

Posted on 10 Apr 2015 by The Manufacturer

The manufacturing sector leads the way for output in February according to the latest figure released by the Office of National Statistics (ONS).

Across the 13 manufacturing sub-sectors, nine of them showed growth compared to the same time last year. The biggest increase in a single sub-sector was from the transport equipment manufacturing sector which saw an increase of 6.1% compared to last year. Compared to January 2015 there was a 0.1% increase in total output in February…

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