Joel Girsky, the chairman and chief executive, attributed the growth to healthy industry demand, stable prices, product diversity and market penetration.
The paper and printing industry is stable, reflecting Manchester's status as the second centre, after Greater London, of newspaper production in England.
The evidence of airlines' improving fortunes prompted Moody's Investors Service Inc. on Monday to raise its 12- to 18-month outlook for the industry to stable from negative.
Oilfields need lots of money invested over a long time, so the industry prizes stable taxes as much as striking a gusher.
"Credit cards helped the New York industry stay stable in a time when the rest of the for-hire industry was in significant decline," said Alfred LaGasse, chief executive officer of the Taxicab, Limousine and Paratransit Association, a national trade group.
Bishop said securing the two big-budget films was the product of recent trips she made to Los Angeles and New York, where she spruiked Australian's film industry talent, stable economy and low dollar to US producers.
There is a reason the nuclear industry seeks stable, high isolation sites with deep groundwater and low seismic activity: because they know, and occasionally they even admit, that there is no form of engineered containment that this material won't burn its way out of.
What the chart reveals is that, in periods when the movie industry is stable, production and direction are in equilibrium: with commonly recognized and unchallenged modes of production, what producers put into movies is close to what they get out of their hired directors, and the Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director closely coincide.
