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Forty-two percent of manufacturers said their businesseswere declining, compared to 12 percenyt a year ago. Only 9 percent of companiexs said their businesswas “thriving and down from 38 percent last year. The “2009 Manufacturingb and Wholesale Distribution National found that about 52 percent of the 923 surveu respondents plan tocut U.S. jobs in nearly double the percentags fromlast year’s survey. But only 11 percent expect to cut jobs in 2010 and 44 percent plan to add While fewer than 10 percent of respondents said they expectexd gross margins to increassein 2009, 30 percent anticipatee improvements in 2010. The onlinre survey was conducted from March 11 toApriol 13.
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