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Safestyle Trading Update Sends Shares Plunging

A new trading update published by Safestyle UK this morning has sent their share price tumbling further. This comes after a prolonged period of decline, which has now seen more than 96% of the value of the shares in the company wiped out since their all-time-highs in 2017. Safestyle UK trading update This is [...]

By |2023-09-19T13:31:30+01:00September 19th, 2023|Categories: business, double glazing industry|

Guest Post: Does Seasonality Still Exist In Window And Door Sales?

Guest post from Mark Atkinson - Sales Director of Hurst Doors: I saw a lot of colleagues from right across the industry at the start of this month [Sept]. Among those I spoke to, there was a general sense of hopefulness that September, October and November would deliver sales – a cautious optimism. While [...]

By |2023-09-18T21:49:52+01:00September 18th, 2023|Categories: double glazing industry|

Safestyle UK Share Price Craters

Safestyle UK appear to be in a rather sticky spot of bother. Ever since their latest trading update, which delivered a significant downgrade on expectations and notification of job losses, their share price has taken a dive. Although the share price of the company has been significantly lower since their all-time-highs in 2017, the [...]

By |2023-09-14T23:40:59+01:00September 14th, 2023|Categories: business, double glazing industry|

Poll: Majority Believe Aluminium Has Most Potential

A DGB poll that ran recently on X delivered results that perhaps we knew already, but served to confirm where the momentum is in the fenestration sector right now. And that is aluminium has the most upside potential over the next few years. Aluminium in front This was the question I asked followers on [...]

By |2023-09-08T16:48:25+01:00September 8th, 2023|Categories: aluminium, double glazing industry|

Eurocell Announces Half-Year Trading Results

Eurocell has published it's half-year results for 2023, and, just like everyone else, they are seeing the effects of a downmarket that is sinking southwards stronger than many predicted. Here are the main points and my take on what we can read into them. Eurocell results Half-year results produce a long report, but here [...]

By |2023-09-05T15:21:26+01:00September 5th, 2023|Categories: double glazing industry|

Neglecting Triple Glazing Carries Significant Risk For Britain’s Glass And Glazing Industry

Edgetech Managing Director Chris Alderson analyses the fast-approaching Future Home Standard, and what it could mean for British glass and glazing. UK glazing has done a fantastic job of adapting to one of the most turbulent periods in living memory for the industry. It’s overcome the chaos of the pandemic, a deepening skills shortage, [...]

By |2023-09-01T16:15:43+01:00September 1st, 2023|Categories: double glazing industry, Glass|

Saint-Gobain Divests Its Glass Processing Business In Slovakia

Saint-Gobain has today completed the sale of its glass processing business Glassolutions in Slovakia, to “Glasora a.s.”. The Business, with its industrial plant located in Nitra-Chrenovà, generated sales of around €20 million in 2022 and employs 150 people. This transaction is part of Saint-Gobain's continued business profile optimization strategy, in line with the "Grow [...]

By |2023-09-01T16:09:21+01:00September 1st, 2023|Categories: business, double glazing industry, Glass|

The Pre-Christmas Rush Is About To Begin

You can almost feel it, can't you? That post-school-holiday rush to pick up and finish home improvement projects is just about upon us. That period of the year (leaving out the pandemic years which upended everything) which is one of the busiest and where companies can have their most profitable couple of months. September [...]

By |2023-08-30T15:51:31+01:00August 30th, 2023|Categories: double glazing industry|

Q2 Value Sales Up +7.6% On Q1, With Volume Up +11.3% And Prices Down -3.3%

Quarter-on-quarter, total value sales from Britain’s Builders’ Merchants climbed +7.6% in Q2 2023 compared to January to March 2023. Growth came from stronger volumes (+11.3%) as prices were -3.3% lower. With four less trading days in the most recent period, like-for-like sales were +14.8% higher in April to June than Q1. Six of the [...]

By |2023-08-24T21:47:13+01:00August 24th, 2023|Categories: double glazing industry|

FENSA Data Gives Clue As To State Of The Sector

As I mentioned in my last post, on the odd occasion you get a glimpse of the real state of things when you set aside the PR and news that try to paint a different picture. The Safestyle UK trading update gave us just that. It wasn't just the hefty downgrade from the bell-weather [...]

By |2023-08-24T09:35:19+01:00August 23rd, 2023|Categories: double glazing industry|

Don’t Fear A Shifting Market

Guest post from Deceuninck UK Managing Director Rob McGlennon: Deceuninck’s Managing Director Rob McGlennon discusses negative assumptions and positive outcomes. The Bank of England increased interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point to 5.25% at the beginning of August, in a bid to control the rate of inflation, which now stands at [...]

By |2023-08-21T23:08:47+01:00August 21st, 2023|Categories: double glazing industry|

Safestyle UK Posts Downgraded Trading Results

If you try and see through the bloated PR and spun news articles distorting the real picture, there are some ways you can gleam something a bit more accurate as to the state of the fenestration sector right now. Safestyle's latest trading updating, focusing on H1 of 2023, is one of those snapshots. After [...]

By |2023-08-21T16:19:40+01:00August 21st, 2023|Categories: double glazing industry|

What Its Like To Deal With Higher Earners

Over the past 18 months we have been working hard at our family run business to expand our reach beyond our normal market. We have always been considered higher end than most of our competition. Yes, we’re a bit more expensive, but we think that the products and service reflect that. However, as the [...]

By |2023-08-14T22:44:01+01:00August 14th, 2023|Categories: double glazing industry|

This Is How The Conservatory Can Be Reborn

There is currently a lot of focus on conservatories right now. A recent media report claimed that “naff” conservatories can knock a whopping £15,000 off the value of a home. You can read more on that here. Then a DGB poll showed that just 18% think that conservatories and glazed extensions will play an [...]

By |2023-08-10T22:11:03+01:00August 10th, 2023|Categories: conservatories, double glazing industry|

Does PVCu Need A Rebrand?

Cast your minds back over the last couple of decades. What has been the biggest innovation in the PVCu space? For me, it’s flush casements. Prior to flush, you had bevelled or ovolo profiles, and before that, you had square profiles from when PVCu first exploded onto the scene. Flush casements have PVCu as [...]

By |2023-08-04T13:47:18+01:00August 4th, 2023|Categories: double glazing industry|

How AI Could Change The Fenestration Sector

Not a day goes by without AI (artificial intelligence) coming up within the media or social media and how it is impacting our daily lives and shaping our futures. Ever since ChatGPT exploded onto the scene at the end of 2022 and the early part of 2023, the world began to really understand the [...]

By |2023-08-01T23:42:58+01:00August 1st, 2023|Categories: double glazing industry, technology|
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