Future Gazing
Manufacturing evolution and implications for industrial and logistics.
21 January 2025
Our 2025 Future Gazing report examines the evolving UK manufacturing landscape and the real estate opportunities it presents.
It highlights future growth prospects for the sector and the rising demand for bespoke, high-specification facilities in strategic locations.
Investing in manufacturing real estate requires navigating the nuances of market segments with varying growth trajectories and balancing strong long-term potential in key sectors and regions against weaker near-term sentiment. This report identifies high-growth industries and regions, outlines key investment considerations, and provides a clear strategy to capitalise on trends in occupier demand, emerging industry clusters, and supportive policy initiatives.
Future Gazing 2025
Future Gazing
Introduction to Future Gazing 2025
Investors are increasingly recognising the long-term growth potential in UK manufacturing and the impact that this will have on real...
21 January 2025
Industrial and logistics
The UK manufacturing landscape and its evolution
The largest manufacturing sub division is food production, followed by motor vehicles and fabricated metal products (based on sales)…
22 January 2025
Industrial and logistics
The future of UK manufacturing
Growth in UK manufacturing output is expected to accelerate over the next ten years…
22 January 2025
Latest Reports
Industrial and logistics
Future Gazing report
Offering a unique perspective on the outlook for the industrial and logistics market; from logistics to support evolving retail habits to...
16 January 2025
Future Gazing
Industrial and Logistics for Europe's Future - 2025
Household growth and implications for the future of Europe’s industrial and logistics sector.
30 May 2025
Previous insights
Industrial and logistics
Production-Driven Demand
Driving growth: The dynamics of manufacturing demand and changing landscape in the UK industrial sector.
05 March 2024
Industrial and logistics
Households and their Logistics Needs
Adapting spaces and the evolving demand for industrial and logistics property in response to changing lifestyles and consumer trends.
18 January 2024
Industrial and logistics
Consumer-Driven Demand: Changing Lifestyles
Where we live, how much we earn, how we shop, what we spend our money on and how we spend our leisure time are all driving changes in our requirements of the industrial and logistics sector.
18 January 2024
Industrial and logistics
Towards a Segmented Forecast of Demand for Industrial and Logistics Space
Navigating growth: Analysing segmented trends in industrial and logistics space demand for future expansion.
18 January 2024
Industrial and logistics
Introduction to Future Gazing 2024
Industrial and logistics properties and the activities that take place within them are largely removed from daily modern life.
18 January 2024
Future Gazing
Moving production or broadening supplier base
A survey by Make UK found that 42% of British manufacturing firms had increased their domestic supplier base in the last 24 months (up to the date of the study in early 2022). A similar proportion
17 January 2024
Future Gazing
Future Gazing - introduction and key findings
In this report we explore the sectors and locations which could benefit from reconfiguring supply chains.
17 January 2024
Future Gazing
First Mile Logistics
First Mile logistics is the transportation of goods across the first leg of the supply chain. That is, the movement of finished goods or products from a manufacturing hub to a warehouse or
17 January 2024
Future Gazing
Supply Chains and the need for resilience
The length and complexity of supply chains has grown as companies expanded around the world in pursuit of margin improvements. But when shocks occur, such as natural disasters, these margins are
17 January 2024
Future Gazing
Changing supply chains and distribution models
There are a variety of different supply chain and distribution models that firms can adopt.
17 January 2024
Future Gazing
Port of Appeal
Developing port-centric logistics depends upon the several factors: The accessibility to major consumer markets, regional markets and infrastructure, the availability of land for logistics, the
17 January 2024
Future Gazing
Reshoring – Areas of opportunity
Identifying the key sectors or drivers of reshoring can help us identify the locations of opportunity, with manufacturers in the same industries tending to cluster in hubs or corridors.
17 January 2024
Future Gazing
Improving supply chains: Investing in efficiencies, growing capacity and building in redundancies
Production bases, freight routes, ports and storage facilities all pose risks to the security of supply chains and investment in these can also boost capacity and resilience.
17 January 2024
Future Gazing
Exploring the growth potential for manufacturing in the UK
According to the McKinsey Global Institute, 15-25% of global exports could potentially shift to different countries over the next 3-5 years. With global trade worth US$28.5 trillion in 2021 (UNCTAD
17 January 2024
Future Gazing
Evidence of reshoring
In the US, recent research by Barclays showed that firms were expected to have moved the equivalent of 350,000 jobs back to the US, primarily from Asia in 2022. This compares to 260,000 in 2021 and
17 January 2024
Future Gazing
Future Gazing Insight Videos
Watch these videos to hear from the Logistics and Industrial team for their different insights into the sector, the full videos of the Future Gazing event with Claire Williams’ presentation, and the
17 January 2024
Future Gazing 2025 report
Offering a unique perspective on the outlook for the industrial and logistics market; from logistics to support evolving retail habits to further up the supply chain, we look at space used to provide consumers and businesses with services, and the wholesalers and distribution firms that supply them.
