Manufacturing and production industry

B-E: PRODUCTION: CVM: annual & monthly gr

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2023 MAR

Release date:

12 May 2023

Next release:

14 June 2023

UK manufacturers' sales by product: 2021 results

What's in the bulletin?

• The total value of UK manufacturers’ product sales was £400.8 billion in 2021, an increase of £34.5 billion (9%) from £366.4 billion in 2020, but this remains lower than the 2019 total of £402.2 billion.
• The manufacture of food remains the largest division (making up 20% of total sales) and showed the largest value increase, up by £5.5 billion (7%) to £79.5 billion; the manufacture of furniture (£7.8 billion) and the manufacture of wood and wood products (£9.0 billion) showed the largest proportional increases in sales, up by 22% and 21%, respectively.
• Following a decline in 2020, sales of large petrol vehicles (above 1500cc) showed the largest value increase for any single product in 2021, rising by £3.4 billion (20%) to £20.3 billion; this was followed by spark-ignition reciprocating internal combustion piston engines (for vehicles of a cylinder capacity greater than 1000cc), which increased by £0.7 billion (41%) to £2.4 billion.