Birmingham Post - Tag - auto industry summit

Business figures warn Mandelson that time is running out

Birmingham Post — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Lord Mandelson’s response to a detail package of support for the automotive industry, drawn up at the recent West Midlands Auto Industry Summit, has drawn further reaction from the business community.

Manufacturing industry suffers as Government focuses on banks

Birmingham Post — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:36:00 GMT

Government ministers happily discuss breaking the law to prevent a few bankers receiving their pensions, but hide behind European bureaucracy to avoid dealing with the manufacturing crisis.

Mandelson told: 'We need action not words'

Birmingham Post — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:02:00 GMT

Lord Mandelson has been accused of dithering while the region’s carmaking sector descends deeper into crisis after taking a month to respond to the West Midlands Auto Industry Summit.

Peter Mandelson responds to memo from Auto Industry Summit

Birmingham Post — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:02:00 GMT

Exactly one month ago leading figures from industry, politics and academia joined together at a unique Auto Industry Summit in Birmingham to draw up a strategy that would save the region’s car making industry during these unprecedented times. This communique, in the form of a 10-point plan, was subsequently delivered to Business Secretary Lord Mandelson at the CBI Manufacturing Dinner two days later. Twenty six days and thousands of lost jobs later, here is Lord Mandelson’s reply:

Company bosses want state aid to pay redundancy costs

Birmingham Post — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:01:00 GMT

Midland engineering bosses want to use Government cash earmarked for reviving the car industry to pay for making their workforces redundant.

Auto industry aid package too late for smaller firms

Birmingham Post — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The possibility that cash from a government rescue package for Britain’s ailing automotive industry might actually be used by firms to make thousands of workers redundant, rather than ensuring that they remain employed, sets the worsening economic crisis in sharp focus.

Memo from the Birmingham Post to Peter Mandelson

Birmingham Post — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:01:00 GMT

This is the 10-point communiqué that will be presented to Lord Mandelson on his visit to Birmingham.

Unions and bosses stand together in fight to save Jaguar Land Rover

Birmingham Post — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:06:00 GMT

Who would have thought that it could have come to this?

Determined mood at the summit, but industry fears still evident

Birmingham Post — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:27:00 GMT

About 200 delegates from across the business and political spectrum descended on the ICC in Birmingham for the Auto Industry Summit. Post reporter Anna Blackaby gives her take on proceedings.

What do you think? Eleven key points from the Auto Industry Summit

Birmingham Post — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:02:00 GMT

On Thursday the Birmingham Post will deliver a communique to Business Secretary Lord Mandeleson outlining a strategy to save the region’s automotive sector drawn up from comments received from delegates at the Auto Industry Summit at the ICC on Tuesday morning.