Summary
Tucked away in a side road at Birmingham Business Park is the headquarters of an organisation that has probably had more to do with securing the future of the British car components industry than any other.
For the past ten years Industry Forum, an offshoot of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, has been improving the skills, efficiency and productivity of hundreds of companies that are the key to sustained investment in Britain by carmakers such as Nissan, Honda, Toyota and BMW.See the full content of this document
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Graham & Gemba
For all of those years, Industry Forum has had as its chief executive Graham Broome, aged 50, an engineer who learned his trade at Longbridge alongside the first wave of Japanese engineers who came to the West Midlands as part of Honda's 1970s collaboration with British Leyland that produced the first generation Rover 200 and later the 600.
He has seen an organisation founded on the back of a pounds 6 million Department of Trade and Industry grant grow into a self- financing body that is now moving beyond its automotive roots into other indus...See the full content of this document
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