Department of Engineering

Manufacturing Thursdays
Evening presentations, 17:00-18:30 , at the Department's Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), 17 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge

NOTE - refreshments 17:00-17:30; Presentation from 17:30-18:30

"Manufacturing Thursdays" is a programme of free evening presentations open to the local business community and all staff and students of the University of Cambridge.
Manufacturing Thursdays introduces participants to many aspects of manufacturing process, technologies and management and provides networking opportunities over refreshments.

• Manufacturing Thursdays returns 20 January 2011
• Past presentations, relevant slides and podcast interviews with the presenters.

It’s the UK’s biggest manufacturing sector - employing 440,000 people across the country, generating turnover of some £73bn and exporting £10bn a year. But the food and drink industry is facing many challenges – such as climate change impacts, increasing volatility in raw materials prices and a poor skills base. A unique collaborative project between IfM and the Food and Drink Federation has indentified some of the ways in which the industry needs to adapt to prosper in the future – as well as the changes that must be made to the UK policy landscape.

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Jonathan's presentation will cover the challenges he faced joining a problematic management buyout, restarting growth so that the private equity investors (including the management team) made a good return, and then leading Amtico into a highly geared secondary management buyout, just ahead of the credit crunch. He will describe how Amtico has been able to post record results in the middle of the current recession, and how the company has made its West Midlands factory cost competitive with China. This has let Amtico repatriate manufacturing from the Far East to its UK and US factories, and play its own part in rebuilding the UK’s manufacturing base.

Jonathan has run a range of businesses over the past 20 years and will summarise some of the lessons learnt, particularly in private equity deals where value has to be created quickly and with finite resources.

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Check here for more details, or if you'd like to be added to our mailing list contact us at ifm-events@eng.cam.ac.uk. We are also happy to hear from you with any feedback or suggestions for topics you would like to see covered.

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