Top 100: Investment in new products continue despite challenging market

Headlines might shout about a dip in turnover and a focus on staff costs, but new products and serious investment in research and development continue at ever-innovative engineering giant Renishaw.

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Girls from Denmark Road High School at Renishaw’s New Mills headquarters as part of the firm’s work to catch teh eye of more females studying science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) subjects.

We know as well as anyone that the easiest headlines to grab attention are those that talk about money – like the millions of pounds wiped off turnover (relatively speaking) in the last quarter at Renishaw.

If we began instead by telling you about how it continues to produce new and exciting products and already shows growth, how research and development spend is up, staff pay is up and investment in early years staff also continues, we might have lost you.

If we haven’t - lost you, that is – then you’ll hopefully stay with us. And we’ll begin by telling you about that money.

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