Posted on 11th April 2012
The UK manufacturing sector continued to grow in February despite a sharp rise in oil prices, official figures have shown. The Markit/CIPS Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) reached 51.2 last month, with any reading above 50 representing growth in the manufacturing...
Posted on 11th April 2012
Up to 80 unemployed Britons are chasing a single job vacancy in parts of the UK, according to new research. Job search website Adzuna has revealed that an average of 79.64 applications are handed in for each job vacancy in Hull, with the jobs market also shown to be extremely competitive...
Posted on 6th April 2012
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has urged the Competition Commission (CC) to launch an inquiry into the private healthcare sector. After a public consultation held in January, the OFT suspected that competition was being restricted in the £5.5 billion private healthcare...
Posted on 5th April 2012
The manufacturing and construction sectors have been boosted by the news that sales of construction equipment have increased in the first quarter of 2012. A survey from the UK Construction Products Association has shown that 51 per cent of heavy construction product manufacturers reported...
Posted on 5th April 2012
Leading economists have queried official figures which show manufacturing output suffered its biggest monthly fall in ten months in February. New data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that manufacturing output fell by one per cent between January and February. ...
