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This quarter’s Manufacturing Barometer results are in!

This quarter’s special focus explores how supply chain disruption has changed since January, and highlights how increasing energy prices, and other current external factors, are affecting SME manufacturing businesses like yours…

Key findings this quarter…

  • The barriers to growth highlighted last quarter have since worsened for the majority of responding businesses
  • Changing energy costs are having a negative impact on an overwhelming 88% of respondents
  • Almost a third said they are struggling to source goods as a direct result of the Ukraine/Russia conflict