Economic prospects

摘要

THE LATEST OXFORD ECONOMICS FORK LIFT TRUCK MARKET OUTLOOK, INCORPORATING THE BITA MEMBERS' SURVEY, HAS JUST BEEN PUBLISHED. BELOW JAMES CLARK, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF BITA, GIVES AN OVERVIEW OF ITS FINDINGS - FROM THE SENTIMENT OF BITA MEMBERS THEMSELVES, TO THE WIDER ECONOMIC PICTURE. The latest Forklift Truck Market Outlook for 2017, produced bi-annually by Oxford Economics on our behalf, has just been published - and shows a more pessimistic mood amongst BITA members, consistent with the overall weakness and uncertainty around the UK economy.