Six years ago, Sanjeev Gupta stepped in where many brave business people have tried and failed. His mission? To make steel manufacturing in the UK profitable again. Nick Peters sat down with him to hear how he has been successfully engineering a quiet revolution. Nick also visited the BMW plant in Regensburg, Germany, to see how the auto-giant is tightening every single link in their supply chain, external and internal. Elsewhere, Jonny Williamson reports on Stoke-on-Trent’s shift from ‘pits and pots’ to bits and bots, and Maddy White explores how we can finally close the gender and diversity gap for good.



