This from today's FT....
Alistair Dormer, head of Hitachi's European rail operations, says he wants to involve a large number of UK-based suppliers in the contract for building about 1,400 intercity carriages.
The location of the new factory has been narrowed down to a shortlist of three: Sheffield, Gateshead and Ashby de la Zouch in Leicestershire.
The plant, expected to cost more than £100m, would eventually employ about 500 people, said Mr Dormer.
Good news indeed.
Only another 11,500 jobs to find.
Alas!
There is one fly in the ointment...
Dormer... "was unable to say when a decision would be made on the location".
Good to see Dormer taking Japanese manufacturing to heart.
This is the PR equivalent of a kaizen (small step) based very much on Lean principles!
Update: This just in from the Pink 'Un...
It's a pity the fact compiler lit only on this bit of the feature and not on the previous FT piece where Alistair Dormer talked about Hitachi's ambitions to supply European railways from the new British factory.
There seems to be a determination among British railway people that Bombardier should always be the only train factory in the UK.
What's wrong with a bit of competition?
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