(MENAFN) Escalating a warning signal that the nation's revival from the financial crisis could be plunging further, British plants had their worst month in nearly three years throughout May.
Additionally, demand at home slowed whereas export orders deteriorated, a double whammy for a segment which accounts for nearly 10 percent of Britain's economic production.
New orders over the cited month were their weakest since the improvement began in 2013, thus consumer and investment goods orders bore the brunt of slower growth in demand at home.
All in all, manufacturing weighed on the country's general economic progress at the end of last year, leaving the nation's much bigger services division as the sole driver of the recovery.
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