What’s in store for 2010?

Posted on 3 Feb 2010 by The Manufacturer

With manufacturers promised a long-awaited recovery this year, Edward Machin meets BDO’s Tom Lawton to discuss how credit lines, the Eurozone, increased growth and an upcoming general election are set to affect the sector in 2010.

We are, it is fair to say, starting the decade from a position of some considerable difficulty. GDP down by 6%, exports by 10%, widespread redundancies and an impact on manufacturing that only began to return to any degree of normality in the final quarter of 2009. Confirms Tom Lawton, head of manufacturing, BDO, “The…

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