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WELCOME

EDITORIAL
Editor
Mark Simms BSc Tel: 01732 773268
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Regional Director (Home Counties & South East)
Mark West Tel: 020 8467 3613 BLEAK HOUSE, BUT
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Regional Sales Manager (Midlands) GREAT EXPECTATIONS
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Regional Sales Manager (North of England, Scotland & Wales) uffering of late with a rather nasty cough, Mrs Simms was
Jan Anderson Tel: 01978 314730 keen to check that she wasn’t keeping me awake through
jan.anderson@itmagazine.uk.com the night. “It did at first,” I said, munching through my
Sbreakfast. “But I soon got used to it, like the way you do
Deutschland/Suisse/Österreich
with a particularly loud clock.” The usually affable Mrs Simms
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looked a bit miffed at this, as she checked: “So in this scenario,
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I’m an annoyingly clamorous clock?”
Overseas Realising I might have started digging a hole for myself, I
George Bennett MA Tel: + 44 161 374 5615 scrabbled to climb out, saying: “Not necessarily a clock; perhaps
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either a train or a plane, depending on where we lived. Although
Special Projects they tend not to fly at night, so the metaphor doesn’t quite hold.”
Steve Brotherton Tel: 01625 268585 It became clear to me that Mrs Simms was failing to focus
steve@itmagazine.uk.com on the positive, which was of course that I was managing to
enjoy an unbroken night’s sleep in the face of her constant
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hacking. Despite our somewhat bleak house, it seemed there was
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a good chance I could come through the whole thing relatively
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unscathed, leaving me optimistic for the evenings ahead.
Head Office: Victoria House, 2 Mornington Road
Sale, Cheshire M33 2DA Sensing a possible way out of my deepening hole, I suggested to
Email: it.marketing@itmagazine.uk.com Mrs Simms that she was bit like 2019. Plenty of doom and gloom, and
Circulation Department: PO Box 85, Sale M33 2BB with the potential for things to get a lot worse. Economically, we’ve had
Email: it.circulation@itmagazine.uk.com the constant threat of the fallout of a disorderly Brexit, early warning signs
of a UK recession amid a global slowdown, and nothing but bleak
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prospects for the year ahead.
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But expectations have lifted. Economists are forecasting modest growth
As a controlled circulation journal, Industrial Technology is sent free for 2020 in the UK, and the IMF goes further in its latest World Economic
of charge to individuals in the UK who meet the terms and Outlook to predict a recovery in global growth. At a time when everything
conditions of the publishers. To apply for free regular copies, write to seemed to be going backwards, that’s reason for optimism. Of course, so
the Circulation Department. To those not meeting the terms and
much of the growth potential for the UK depends upon an orderly Brexit, and
conditions, the magazine is available on UK subscription at a cost of
we’re not out of the woods yet, with Boris Johnson still holding the threat of
£90 per year (10 issues). Single copies are £9. Overseas
subscriptions (airmail) are as follows: Rest of Europe including Eire a hard departure from the EU should we not have a trade deal in place by the
£140 (single copies £14); USA $220 (single $22); Rest of the end of the year. But for now, it feels as though we can finally put some firm
World £170 (single copies £17).
plans in place, invest in our businesses with a little more confidence, and
aim to be fast out of the traps as sentiment improves.
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I took another bite of toast and looked across the breakfast table
to see if I was back on firmer ground. Mrs Simms coughed.
Industrial Mark Simms
Technology Editor

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