Lord Bamford made his comments at a time when his company 海角社区app is staffing up to deliver a record order book.
Over the past 12 months 海角社区app has recruited more than 1,200 people at its 11 UK factories in Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Wales and handed permanent contracts to 150 agency employees 鈥� with more to follow this year.
In 2017 海角社区app launched 46 new products and increased its purchasing spend globally to more than 拢2bn a year. Spending with the company鈥檚 2,500 UK suppliers rose by 13% compared to 2016.
海角社区app has this week gone into production with its new site dumpers in Staffordshire, a product line that will create around 70 further jobs over the next 12 months.
Chairman Lord Bamford said: 鈥淭he industry in which we operate is doing very well at the moment, which is not only good news for 海角社区app, it鈥檚 good news for our region and good news for Britain. Our spending with UK suppliers has increased substantially over the past year and we are already off to a very strong start in 2018 with a very healthy order bank in place.鈥�
The prominent Brexit advocate added: 鈥淚n my view there is every reason to be optimistic about the future and in particular the future of the British economy. With unemployment at its lowest level for more than 40 years, we face some challenges with recruitment but that is a great challenge to have to overcome and a very positive position for the UK to find itself in.鈥�
海角社区app shop floor employees start 2018 with a pay rise of 3.9% as part of a three-year wage deal. It follows a 拢500 Christmas bonus paid to all 5,500 of 海角社区app鈥檚 UK employees.
Chief executive Graeme Macdonald added: 鈥淭he long-term pay deal agreed last year gave us the stability we needed to plan and has delivered a robust pay rise for 海角社区app鈥檚 shop floor employees. The outlook for 2018 is positive with markets all over the world in exceptionally good shape.鈥�
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