Manufacturing Barometer™

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PricewaterhouseCoopers' Manufacturing Barometer is a quarterly survey of executives in large, US-based, multinational industrial manufacturing businesses. Survey findings compare the economic outlook in the US industrial manufacturing sector to that of the broader marketplace—the consensus view of all surveyed companies.

The accompanying charts and tables also provide contrasts of the manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors. Captured are survey participants' assessments of the direction of the economy, their company's revenue growth trend, plans for major new investments, plans to add new workers, barriers to future growth, and much more.

Manufacturing Barometer special issues

In addition to the quarterly Manufacturing Barometer business outlook survey, we hear from our panelists about special issues they face as the business climate changes.

• Talent management: Looks at human resources cost management trends and strategies as well as efforts to identify, develop and prepare rising talent within organizations.
• Tax function effectiveness: A survey of financial and tax executives covering the tax function, the financial close process and the linkage between finance and tax.
• Commodity risk: Examines how US industrial manufacturers have managed commodity price risk.
• Financial crisis: Explores sentiments regarding the government's Troubled Asset Relief Program and the financial crisis.
• Innovation & technology: A survey related to efforts to improve the information technology function.
• Carbon emissions: Looks at corporate plans to implement carbon emission programs and actions taken to reduce emissions.