Unprotected GKN left to brave the cold corporate winds alone

As the takeover deadline looms, MPs and unions voice fears for Britain’s industrial future if the deal is allowed to go aheadIt is a company that dates back to Britain’s industrial revolution: an ironworks in south Wales that started in 1759 and supplied the tracks for Brunel’s Great Western Railway. It has become, as GKN, a global engineering giant supplying car and aerospace parts, employing 60,000 around the world and 6,000 in the UK. But now corporate raiders loom in the fo