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Manufacturing shines through economic gloom

Britain's manufacturers are continuing to defy the pervading economic gloom by posting their tenth consecutive quarter of healthy growth, with projected growth for 2008 revised upwards.

Becky Silverton writes

If we don't want to constantly reinvent the wheel to achieve product differentiation, and if we don't want to resort to extremes, then do we have to accept the depressing picture that there are no genuinely new ideas?

John Richardson writes

The Shells, BPs and other industrial giants of this world are quite able to look after themselves. If the UK's manufacturing industry is to thrive, then it is the SMEs that we should really be nurturing.

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