The M25 & South East Market Report

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2023

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Future Gazing Insight Videos
Watch these videos to hear from the Logistics and Industrial team for their different insights into the sector, the full videos of the Future Gazing event with Claire Williams’ presentation, and the…
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Reshoring – Areas of opportunity
Identifying the key sectors or drivers of reshoring can help us identify the locations of opportunity, with manufacturers in the same industries tending to cluster in hubs or corridors.
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Evidence of reshoring
In the US, recent research by Barclays showed that firms were expected to have moved the equivalent of 350,000 jobs back to the US, primarily from Asia in 2022. This compares to 260,000 in 2021 and…
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Exploring the growth potential for manufacturing in the UK
According to the McKinsey Global Institute, 15-25% of global exports could potentially shift to different countries over the next 3-5 years. With global trade worth US$28.5 trillion in 2021 (UNCTAD…
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Changing supply chains and distribution models
There are a variety of different supply chain and distribution models that firms can adopt.
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Moving production or broadening supplier base
A survey by Make UK found that 42% of British manufacturing firms had increased their domestic supplier base in the last 24 months (up to the date of the study in early 2022). A similar proportion…
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Improving supply chains: Investing in efficiencies, growing capacity and building in redundancies
Production bases, freight routes, ports and storage facilities all pose risks to the security of supply chains and investment in these can also boost capacity and resilience.
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The length and complexity of supply chains has grown as companies expanded around the world in pursuit of margin improvements. But when shocks occur, such as natural disasters, these margins are…
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First Mile logistics is the transportation of goods across the first leg of the supply chain. That is, the movement of finished goods or products from a manufacturing hub to a warehouse or…
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In this report we explore the sectors and locations which could benefit from reconfiguring supply chains.
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Developing port-centric logistics depends upon the several factors: The accessibility to major consumer markets, regional markets and infrastructure, the availability of land for logistics, the…
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