How to use text from a block view as a prefix to a node title
So this is what I did, in case anyone wants to accomplish the something similar.

You first have to add a new region just above the content region in your MY_THEME.info file which in my case was:

regions[manufacturer_prefix_title]    = Manufacturer Prefix Title


Then I overwrote the page.tpl.php which contained:

  &lt;?php if ($title): ?&gt;
    &lt;h1&gt;&lt;?php print $title; ?&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
  &lt;?php endif; ?&gt;


to each node instance I needed page--MY-NODE.tpl.php which now contains:

  &lt;?php if ($title): ?&gt;
    &lt;?php print render($page['manufacturer_prefix_title']); ?&gt;
  &lt;?php endif; ?&gt;


(The above required a preprocess_page hook.)

Then I created a block view, with the contextual filter set to NID. I also added filter criteria to get only the desired content types.

I added the 3 Content: Manufacturer fields, ticked exclude from display on each, and ticked rewrite the output of this field on each so that I could use the replacement pattern for those fields and wrap each one in the span class I wanted:

&lt;span class="MY-CLASS"&gt;[field_MY_FIELD]&lt;/span&gt;. 

I also made sure to tick hide if empty under no results behavior so that the span class would not get rendered when the field was empty, as these fields  are not required.

I then added the Content: Title field once, and ticked rewrite the output of this field  and used replacement patterns for each of the manufacturer fields, leaving one space in front of the title:

[field_MY_FIELD_1][field_MY_FIELD_2][field_MY_FIELD_3] [title]


Since the contextual filter was set to NID, the title will only grab the appropriate taxonomy reference field, as only one is allowed per node.

Then all that was left was to simply place the new view block @admin/structure/block into the new region that was created in the MY_THEME.info file. I also configured the block to only show on the same content types that i defined in the filter criteria of the block view.

Hope this helps someone! :)