Survey: Manufacturers eye 2010 turnaround - Birmingham Business Journal:

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Forty-two percent of manufacturers said their businessedwere declining, compared to 12 percent a year ago. Only 9 percenty of companies said their businesswas “thriving and growing,” down from 38 percentg last year. The “2009 Manufacturing and Wholesaler DistributionNational Survey” founxd that about 52 percent of the 923 surveyu respondents plan to cut U.S. jobs in nearly double the percentage fromlast year’s But only 11 percent expect to cut jobs in 2010 and 44 percenrt plan to add While fewer than 10 percent of respondents said they expecte gross margins to increase in 30 percent anticipate improvements in 2010.
The onlins survey was conducted from March 11 toApril 13. Minn.-based RSM McGladrey is a professional services firm thatprovide accounting, tax and business consulting