Over the same period, industrial value-added was growing at a cracking 9%, said the statistics.

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August industrial value-added output, for instance, was off 0.5% from July.

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Third, industrial value-added output jumped 9.2% over the same month last year.

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Andy notes in his most recent report that value-added for larger industrial firms and fixed asset investment rose at a pace consistent with 8 to 8.5 percent GDP growth.

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More than that, fashion is just the sort of thing Britain is supposed to be good at in this post-industrial age: creative, high-value-added, cluster-based.

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Canada's industrial mix contains a smaller share of high-value-added sectors than America's.

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