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New Balance Has Plans for Added U.S. Manufacturing

Supply Chain Matters

Athletic and leisure footwear manufacturer New Balance has advanced plans to build the company’s sixth footwear manufacturing facility within the United States. The company presently owns five manufacturing facilities in the U.S. and one in the United Kingdom , with a reported $5.3

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New data: NZ manufacturers back at pre-Covid level + Aus booms

Unleashed

The latest data shows New Zealand’s manufacturers appearing to shrug off the ‘80% economy’, reaching pre-Covid levels of activity at the end of June. The data in question has been sourced from Unleashed Software’s inventory management and business SaaS product. Australian manufacturing booming. NZ purchasing rebounds.

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Global Wide Production PMI Levels Unchanged in February 2024

Supply Chain Matters

Slight Rise in Global Wide Production Activity Global-wide manufacturing levels as depicted in the J.P. Morgan Global Manufacturing PMI® was headlined with back-to-back expansion levels in February. The HSBC India Manufacturing PMI® rose from 56.5 Manufacturing Among the two reported PMI reports relative to U.S.

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October 2022 PMI Reporting Points to Global Wide Manufacturing Contraction

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters provides monthly highlight commentary and perspectives on published October 2022 global manufacturing PMI and supply chain activity indices. Now, October reporting data reinforces global-wide contraction levels in production and new orders, along with manufacturing recession conditions now acknowledged for Europe.

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4 Ways to Lift Manufacturing Productivity: The MFP Approach

Unleashed

Over the past ten years, the issue of stagnating productivity in the United Kingdom has grown to seem almost unstoppable. To put that another way: by the time a business in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan or the United States gets to Thursday they have produced, on average, what the UK needs a full Monday-Friday to do.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 19 – 25)

Logistics Viewpoints

Given low inventories and dwindling spare capacity, the oil market cannot afford large supply disruptions,” said UBS analyst Giovanni Staunovo in a Reuters article. The United States and Iran have been engaged in indirect nuclear talks in Vienna that could lead to the removal of sanctions on Iranian oil sales.

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Global PMI Levels in July Remain of Concern

Supply Chain Matters

The July numbers signal a continued downturn in global manufacturing conditions with output and new order rates reportedly falling at faster rates. Global Wide Manufacturing Activity Levels Global manufacturing activity as reported by the J.P. Manufacturing production reportedly decreased for the second consecutive month.