And The British Investment

[youngmafbog]

Or England, Wales and Northern Ireland one may be more appropriate.

someone the other day asked why only bad news was published so I though I would point this out. There is a link in the Independent but the story is well buried in the business news, they prefer the German rub-a-tug shop as front page !


http://news.sky.com/story/1178693/jcb-to-create-2500-jobs-in-150m-expansion

[emmie]

economically good news.

[jake-the-peg]

Nice but

//The company said it would expand its operations in Staffordshire and create the jobs by 2018.//

A lot can happen in 5 years

[emmie]

yes we could all be gone.

[youngmafbog]

True, labour could get back in and the economy will take a dive !! ;-0

[emmie]

oh no ^^

[mushroom25]

//a lot can happen in five years..//

indeed. 4 years ago, JCB were in trouble as the slump curbed construction and the need for new machines -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/7824718.stm

but by 2011 the redundancies had been reversed, and last year the company expanded production in Brazil and India.

[youngmafbog]

Yes mushrrom, previous post certainly applies.