UK manufacturing has posted solid growth in the past few years but the environment has clearly become a lot more challenging.

Few expected the boom in the United States to last this long, or for Europe to be posting strong growth.

In 1991, its best year, Bolivia posted economic growth of 4.1 percent.

For 46 years, Lockton posted extraordinary organic growth, with global revenues reaching $915 million in fiscal 2012.

In fact, the company has posted strong growth since it went public in 1987 at $11 a share.

The company also had robust sales in July, posting growth of 9.6 percent in stores open at least a year compared with the year-earlier period.

Also, the company has recently posted growth in some crucial areas.

Despite crops that set records for volume, the agricultural sector posted growth of only 0.18 percent from a year earlier because prices were weak.

Western Germany's economy cooled markedly in 1991, posting little or no growth in the last three quarters.

The nation's manufacturing economy posted minuscule growth in October, according to a survey of purchasing managers.