2% sounds like a bargain!

[NigelJK]

So where does the other 95% come from

Design, Implementation, Production Engineering,Project management, Sales, After Sales support. And that's for something simple like a Vacuum cleaner.

[The Spartan]

So where does the other 95% come from? As for your second statement, then all manufacturing should be sent abroad so the idle working classes can continue to get benefits and by working classes that also includes IT techies

Leave PC alone

[Troll]

Not sure if you're aware but only 5% of the profit comes from manufacturing. Plus you don't get the constant union interference pushing up the prices, win-win.

So where does the other 95% come from? As for your second statement, then all manufacturing should be sent abroad so the idle working classes can continue to get benefits and by working classes that also includes IT techies

Makes you wonder why a successful economy like Germany is still making stuff

[The Spartan]

Makes you wonder why a successful economy like Germany is still making stuff

As they're able to undercut the other European economies

[NigelJK]

We are still making stuff, only once we have it bedded in we put the production lines in where it's best bang for your QA buck.

[LondonManc]

Makes you wonder why a successful economy like Germany is still making stuff

Reputation for quality.

New to the Rover Metro?

[seanraaron]

Reputation for quality.

New to the Rover Metro?

Dyson offshored manufacturing because British workers are tulipe then?

[vetran]

Makes you wonder why a successful economy like Germany is still making stuff

they automated heavily and adopted the Japanese attitude to quality.

Machines & organisation can make manufacturing cheap wherever.

[Troll]

Reputation for quality.

New to the Rover Metro?

It was rhetorical

So what's changed from bashing bits of metal to make a Metro and going out of business, to bashing bits of metal and making £2.5 billion

[Troll]

Dyson offshored manufacturing because British workers are tulipe then?

Nope Dyson was shown the profit figures between keeping manufacturing in UK versus moving offshore, Dyson took the money for which he should have lost his knighthood