Industrial Products Outlook

• Producing Value - Australian mergers & acquisitions outlook [PDF 1.4 MB: Jun 2008]
  This edition explores the Australian M&A outlook and Producing Value* - Global Industrial Manufacturing mergers and acquisitions analysis, 2005-2007. We examine the top 10 transactions and the spread of deals worldwide, and highlights trends including private equity investment. We also provide a PwC perspective on the sector's prospects to guide CEOs considering M&A activity.
  
  
• Climate Change – Get set for the new industrial revolution [PDF 344 KB: May 2008]
  The climate change agenda is moving quickly in Australia. With just under two years until carbon trading begins, industrial products companies have work to do. They must act with urgency to assess the risks they face and set up robust systems to manage their carbon costs.
  
  
• Driving towards Corporate Performance Management [PDF 933 KB: Feb 2008]
  Now more than ever, industrial products companies need to improve how they do business. Corporate management performance (EPM) is an operating philosophy that makes companies more effective; yet our research shows that Australian companies have been slow to embrace this discipline.
  
  
• The rise and rise of private equity [PDF 384 KB: Dec 2007]
  Private equity is on the rise in the industrial products sector. The rapid emergence of powerful new private equity-backed industry players with disciplined performance improvement plans could surprise and quickly marginalise the unprepared.
  
  
• The real business of people [PDF 4.3 MB: Jun 2007]
  Companies are beginning to recognise that their largest source of competitive advantage is virtually untapped - their people.
  
  
• Prosper or Perish [PDF 4.3 MB: Jun 2007]
  Change has become the constant – and it must be embraced. Companies need to invest in technology and invest in people who are prepared to innovate and who are prepared to take a punt. The future of Australian manufacturing is at stake.