Supply Chain by the Numbers
   
 

-March 10 , 2010
   
 

This Week’s Supply Chain by the Numbers for March 11, 2010

   
 

Britain's JCB seeks more Components made at Home; Maersk's Bottom Line Takes a Pounding; EPC Growth and Steel Company Investment Looking Up

   
 
 
 

36%

The percent of its components that British construction equipment giant JCB now has made in the UK down from 96% in 1979. Sir Anthony Bamford, JCB’s chairman, in large part blamed government policies as contributing to the UK’s loss of manufacturing vigor, and is calling for changes to revitalize the manufacturing sector there.

 
 
 



 

$2.1 billion

The financial loss in Maersk’s ocean shipping business unit in 2009, leading to the first full year loss for the parent company since 1904. That’s even after the shipping unit reduced its costs by some $2 billion over the past year.
 
 
40%

The potential market growth in “Gen2”-based EPC/RFID technology sales in 2010, according to the market analysts at RW Baird in a commentary this week. That growth is global in nature, however, as many Asian countries are actually leading the charge versus the US. Baird claims some 500 million Gen2 tags were sold globally in 2009.
 
 
 
 
43%

The planned increase in capital spending for steel giant ArcelorMittal in 2010, indicating the company believes the economic reocovery is on and that demand is going to increase in sectors like constrution, automobiles, and appliances.

 
 
 
 
 
 
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