Automation is driving widespread transformation across a number of key UK industries and becoming an increasingly prevalent trend in M&A within these sectors.
Despite a slow pace of adoption among UK companies, investment is increasing as automated technology becomes more accessible, more broadly useful and, ultimately, more necessary for companies seeking to compete and thrive in the industry.
During 2023 and 2024, for example, the number of deals in the industrial manufacturing sector involving automation stood at more than double the figure seen prior to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019.
Increasingly, automation is becoming a core investment focus for a wide range of companies, leaving those that fail to invest at risk of being left behind.
In the full in-depth, exclusive insight - available to BSR members - we examine factors including:
- How automation is driving transformation and dealmaking across sectors such as manufacturing, warehousing and packaging.
- The latest technological developments that could define automation in 2025
- A range of notable recent M&A deals involving automation
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