Like most forms of business in today's world - automotive, aerospace and defence - to name but a few, the testing industry has had to tighten its belt and watch the pennies as the West stumbled into an economic slowdown. The response from testing companies was varied: the majority embarked on huge cost-cutting programmes, others merged while some were even forced to close down operations. Talk from the grapevine indicated that 2004 was to be a better year than the previous 12 months for the testing sector. Yet it now seems it is not so clear cut, and the light at the end of a long and dark tunnel remains faint.
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