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Sustainability: Maximising value for manufacturing
Insight Sustainability: Maximising value for manufacturing
Explore how sustainability reporting can enhance compliance, supply chain resilience, and meet consumer expectations for manufacturing businesses.
Conor Healy
Jay Vasiliou
Crystel Gangemi
Michael Climpson
| 5 min read | 08 May 2025
Manufacturing Benchmarks 2024: Paving the way for sustainable growth
Report Manufacturing Benchmarks 2024: Paving the way for sustainable growth
The manufacturing sector has demonstrated remarkable resilience and adaptability, achieving steady growth through effective cost management and strategic investments despite economic challenges.
Michael Climpson
Jessica Tenace
David De Fazio
| 2 min read | 10 Jul 2024
Manufacturing and A Future Made in Australia
Podcast Manufacturing and A Future Made in Australia
In the latest episode of Beyond the Numbers with Grant Thornton, Innovation Incentives Director Simone Barker and Michael Climpson, National Head of Manufacturing and a Partner in our Audit & Assurance team discuss what the mid-sized manufacturing sector currently looks like in Australia, how inflation has impacted the sector and what the Future Made in Australia initiative will look like in practice.
Michael Climpson
Simone Barker
| 26 min listen | 19 Jun 2024
Shaping the future: the role of Government in revitalising Australia’s onshore manufacturing
Insight Shaping the future: the role of Government in revitalising Australia’s onshore manufacturing
The recently announced ‘Future Made in Australia Act’ underscores the Government’s commitment to the manufacturing re-shoring objective, demonstrating a willingness to adopt an interventionist approach to safeguard and build our sovereign capabilities, ensure our competitiveness with neighbouring countries, and allies and guard against growing geo-political tensions.
Michael Climpson
Richard Nutt
Simone Barker
| 6 min read | 01 May 2024
The state of Australian Manufacturing: 2023 Manufacturing benchmarks
Report The state of Australian Manufacturing: 2023 Manufacturing benchmarks
This analysis of Australian mid-sized manufacturers has shown a positive outlook, with average year-on-year sales growing by 6.7 per cent in 2023. This growth can predominantly be attributed to increased capital expenditure and investing into emerging technologies. The outlook is particularly promising for business with revenue over $100m, whose scale has supported ongoing success through stronger forecasting linked to better pricing agreements and growing market shares due to their steady inventory.
Michael Climpson
Jessica Tenace
| 3 min read | 18 Sep 2023
Diversifying the economy through sovereign manufacturing
Insight Diversifying the economy through sovereign manufacturing
While manufacturing has shown resilience and agility to pivot in the face of the pandemic, the pathway to the solidly Australia-based manufacturing capability the Albanese Government’s seeks, where we are able to “build what we need” and “rebuild our proud manufacturing industry”, is still somewhat unclear.
Simone Barker
Michael Climpson
| 3 min read | 26 Oct 2022
Investment into innovation encouraging stability in manufacturing
Insight Investment into innovation encouraging stability in manufacturing
Australian manufacturers have been through difficult times, particularly with the shutdown of the automotive industry, but remaining businesses are proving to be agile and resilient having already battled through lots of challenges. In addition, the accelerating pace of new technologies being introduced, combined with COVID-19 disruption and the Government’s substantial industry support, many manufacturing business models have been fundamentally challenged for the better.
Michael Climpson
Nick Love
Matt Byrnes
| 4 min read | 13 May 2022
Manufacturing industry
Federal Budget Sovereign capability and a manufacturing renaissance
Once upon a time, certainly in living memory, Australia had a thriving and diverse manufacturing sector.
Michael Climpson
Michael Climpson
| 3 min read | 30 Oct 2020
Manufacturing is critical to our economy – how can we support the sector?
mid-sized business report Manufacturing is critical to our economy – how can we support the sector?
Although the knock-on effects of the Australian automotive industry exiting our country are yet to be fully understood, the industry is evolving, and manufacturing continues to be a major employer and critical to our overall economy.
Michael Climpson
Michael Climpson
| 03 Jun 2019