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Manufacturers Experience Success by Investing in their Future
It’s always nice to run across uplifting literature about the industry with numbers to back it up. Thomasnet.com recently released their fifth industry market barometer for manufacturing. The IMB is an annual survey completed
Read More »Working Together to Support Manufacturing in Massachusetts
On November 29th I attended a manufacturing partnership connector meeting in Clinton, MA at Nypro Inc. Nypro is a very successful global manufacturer that chooses to “Make it in America”. The meeting was hosted
Read More »Write to be understood, speak to be heard, and focus on your supply chain to grow…
KPMG’s 2011 Global Manufacturing Outlook linked 56 percent of the global manufacturers they surveyed with plans to sell new products in new and existing markets over the next two years. That number is up
Read More »Three Perfect Days: Budapest
According to fDi Magazine (a division of the Financial Times), Budapest, Hungry ranks 3rd on their European Cities and Regions of the Future list. By economic development standards, that’s not too shabby for a
Read More »Looking Under the Hood…..
As MEP focuses its services to support manufacturing clients to grow their business, adopt and deploy new technologies, and improve their innovation capacity, it is worth looking at what we know about manufacturing firms
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Confidence and Growth Across Entire Industrial Sector
Despite the struggling economy, the deadlock in Washington D.C and the hesitance of companies to add new employees when they may have to fire them shortly thereafter, there are signs that growth is happening
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Owners Must Appreciate There is More than One Strategy
We last left off in a conversation with John Colwell, Managing Director of Mentor Capital Partners, a financial advisory firm, about why many small business owners don’t embrace growth. As we continued our conversation, it
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Ten Reasons Why Many Company Owners Don’t Embrace Growth
I recently called up John Colwell, Managing Director of Mentor Capital Partners, a financial advisory firm, to renew a conversation I had with him several years ago on the reasons why many small business owners
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