Quote Big Graeme="Big Graeme"And where is one of the most successful manufacturing stories of the late 90's to date based?'"
Do you mean Nissan and the influence it has had on the surrounding area with its gathering of feeder companies all keen to be in close proximity to its "just in time" procurement practices ?
You're right, its certainly no coincidence that they chose an area where, by the time they moved in, had already had ten years worth of EU infrastructure spending into an economically and employment depressed community, all the civil engineering works were in place for them, excellent trunk road links to North and South and more importantly a huge swath of virgin industrial estates laid out ready for their suppliers.
And to cap it all I got eight years worth of employment out of the region
