The PMG

Plymouth Manufacturers’ Group is an informal group of the larger engineering and manufacturing companies in the Plymouth Travel to Work Area. Our membership includes household names like: Toshiba, The Wrigley Company and Kawasaki. Also, major local employers such as Babcock Marine with its three hundred year heritage of ship building and ship repair at the dockyard in Devonport.

The objectives of the Group are to:

• provide a convenient means of interchange of information, experience and opinion between members and matters affecting the interests of their companies and their employees;
• to encourage and assist in the orderly development of industry in the Plymouth area and
• to provide a channel of communication between members of the Group, local authorities and other appropriate organisations.

Together the PMG employs over fourteen thousand staff and we have a combined turnover of one and a half billion pounds.

Manufacturing is an important part of the UK and Plymouth economies. In the City – at over half a billion pounds per annum – it is worth nearly 16% of the total economy and employs almost 13% of the local labour market.

In terms of productivity per head (gross value added) at £40k, it is worth over two and half times the average GVA within the local economy.

Whilst the numbers employed have reduced by approximately four thousand in the past eight years, output per worker has risen by over eighty per cent.