U.K manufacturing collapses !!!

granville_2

To borrow a quote from The Wire...

"That's what's wrong with this country, isn't it; We used to make things, build things. Now we just put our hands in the next guy's pocket."

amcluesent

>How much would a dustpan and brush cost if made in UK?<

£2.50 coming off the line, £5 wholesale.

lesley1960

Conrad wrote: »

Does it tickle you that in one breath a person will decry the fall of UK manufacturing and in the next gleefuly inform you of thier money saving purchase, made cheap as a result of being manufactured abroad!

Not sure tickle is the right word !! Everyone wanting to earn high wages but buy ''stuff'' cheap and are surprised our manufactoring industry has collapsed ( The collapse started years ago )

julieq

Most exporting manufacturing companies fix exchange rates annually. The effect of the currency devaluation will most likely kick in starting in April. It's a complex picture all the same since sub-assemblies and parts are often sourced from outside the UK which puts costs up. There's more manufacturing in the UK than people often think, which of course is why a fall in output does actually matter. But a lot of it is because customers, often other businesses, are not buying at any price until things settle down. Projects are delayed rather than cancelled. Saying it's the worst decline since records began is meaningless really, it's journalistic hyperbole.

It's amusing though that the main form of discourse you see here is someone quoting a newspaper or other press piece and using it as confirmation of their opinion. There doesn't seem to be a lot of actual knowledge kicking about despite the confidence of the views being expressed, it's really just second hand commentary paraded as fact.

Reporting is based on fashion largely, and having done the doomsday scenarios, the next trend will be going against that prevailing current and looking for the start of the recovery.

pickles110564

Thank god for fresh air our greatest manufacturing export for years.

Old_Slaphead

fc123 wrote: »

I bought a dustpan and brush recently for £1...made in China. I have no idead how long it takes to make or even how it is made...but seemed very cheap to me. How much would a dustpan and brush cost if made in UK?

To give you some idea - we manufacture a plastic product that we sell to a direct sale organisation.

We charge £1.69 (ex vat) and the product sells through their catalogue at £9.99 (incl vat)

I would guess that dustpan and brush are shipped by the container load and cost about 65-70p. UK distributor may have to commission a bespoke mould tool unless it's a generic product.

piggeh

We cannot compete on price, only on quality or value added service to clients. Honda would quite happily send work abroad if it wasn't for our manufacturers' excellent quality controls for example. They have tried awarding work elsewhere in the past but then kept it with UK Manufacturers because the same quality cannot be achieved elsewhere. Price isn't everything.

fc123

amcluesent wrote: »

>How much would a dustpan and brush cost if made in UK?<

£2.50 coming off the line, £5 wholesale.

Really? So that would be from £13 up to £20 retail depending on type of shop it was sold in.........or £11 if sold on-line maybe? On-line sellers can take a lower mark up.

fc123

Old_Slaphead wrote: »

To give you some idea - we manufacture a plastic product that we sell to a direct sale organisation.

We charge £1.69 (ex vat) and the product sells through their catalogue at £9.99 (incl vat)

I would guess that dustpan and brush are shipped by the container load and cost about 25-30p. UK distributor may have to commission a bespoke mould tool unless it's a generic product.

The whole primary, secondary and tertiary industry thingy I learnt about at school years back. All 3 stages were seperate but if you can combine the secondary and tertiary, more profits to be had.
That's a fat mark up from wholesale cost BTW.

Old_Slaphead

fc123 wrote: »

The whole primary, secondary and tertiary industry thingy I learnt about at school years back. All 3 stages were seperate but if you can combine the secondary and tertiary, more profits to be had.
That's a fat mark up from wholesale cost BTW.

That's not wholesale markup - that's effectively factory gate to shop window....but 500% is quite tasty (cost of them glossy leaflets that fall out of Sunday papers)