This year has seen a series of positive announcements from global vehicle manufacturers which will undoubtedly have a significant impact on the UK’s production outlook and also present UK based suppliers with real business opportunities.  This increased investment was analysed and discussed in a free webinar that  looked forward to the key issues and trends for 2012.

Free webinar: Production outlook and economic forecast for 2012

Thursday 8 December 2011, 2:30 – 3pm

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The webinar panel:

• Paul Everitt, Chief Executive, SMMT
• Ian Henry, Director, Autoanalysis and author of SMMT’s: production outlook report
• Robert Baker, Chief economist, SMMT

The webinar covered:

• Review of 2011 UK production volumes and VM investments.
• Overview of latest VM production plans for 2012
• Detailed outlook of VM production volumes through to 2016 by plant and model.
• Market updates including Russia and China.
• UK and global economic activity including GDP forecast and inflation report
• Q&A