The current economic climate has once again given rise to the claim that British manufacturing and its supply chain is in terminal decline. However the facts tell a totally different story. Despite a long-term overall decline in the number of people employed in manufacturing & logistics, output for the sector reached an all time high in 2007 and productivity similarly grew by 50% in the ten year period to 2007. The UK manufacturing and supply chain industry is the 6th largest in the world and having survived recessions throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s will do so again.
However, to survive and prosper organisations in the sector will have to navigate intense pressure arising from a range of sources including squeezed margins due to global competition, an increasingly powerful customer base, uncertainty over access to finance and increased regulatory pressures with the sustainability agenda coming increasingly to the fore.
The Bevan Brittan team provides practical, realistic, to the point advice on the major legal issues that affect both large and small manufacturing and logistics companies. We work for a wide range of organisations ranging from market leaders in the sector, to AIM-listed, mid-cap and small manufacturing and logistics businesses. Our lawyers understand the significant commercial and regulatory pressures to which these firms are subject. We are regularly asked to assist such clients in all areas of their commercial activity. This extends to corporate and commercial support, mergers and acquisitions, managing health and safety risks, outsourcing and IT arrangements, employment law issues, managing real estate portfolios and resolving commercial disputes.
Our team includes lawyers who are experts in the field of banking, commercial law, corporate, insolvency, tax, real estate and dispute resolution providing clients with an integrated and seamless service. We have an intuitive understanding of the key policy, economic and commercial challenges that face manufacturers and distributors. This understanding enables us to work with our clients in a mutually beneficial partnership.