Early in December GLDPartners visited Sheridan Wyoming to collaborate with the economic development entity Forward Sheridan and its community partners to assess the Sheridan economic development investment attraction opportunity, particularly in terms of tech-related manufacturing.
The WSJ is reporting that Rockwell Collins Inc. has entered into an agreement to buy B/E Aerospace Inc. for 6.4 billion. This acquisition will unite two of the global aerospace industry’s largest suppliers. Today, aerospace is a highly concentrated industry, dominated by a small number of large firms that are supported by a large number of smaller contractors. Consolidation is now the norm for aerospace providers. The sector is a capital intensive and high-value added industry. Profitability depends a great deal on technical expertise, innovation and the ability to accurately price long-term contracts for programs that may take years to design, develop and build.
In the course of our work, GLDpartners has amassed a compilation of industry intelligence on major sectors in the global economy. Over the next several months, we will be posting industry intelligence updates that seaports, airports, inland logistics centers and economic developers should find valuable as they work to understand how their customer base is changing. The first one up is the pharmaceutical industry.
Increasing Regional Competitiveness by Integrating Supply Chains Marcus Williams of Automobile Logistics reports that Canada’s Ontario province and the State of Michigan have signed a pact to improve the integration of automotive supply chains. The auto manufacturing sector is the long standing driver of economic prosperity in both regions and they are reimagining the role [...]
Logistics Executives Say Brexit Will Rattle European Supply Chains In an article last week in the WSJ, global logistics executives are acknowledging that supply chains will be in transition as the Europe reacts to the Brexit vote but they are cautiously optimistic that in a post Brexit era trade will continue and that new trade [...]
All of us are aware of how China’s economy has exploded over the last thirty years, in part based upon the amazing performance of its low cost manufacturers that make the goods that line shelves of US discount stores. And in fact many argue that China will overtake the United States to become the leading economic power in the world.