>It wouldn't be Christmas in the double glazing industry without:1. Customers prolonging paying so they can wait till after the New Year to clear their debts. Except this time we can charge the normal 17.5% VAT rate! Serves them right.2. Fitters complaining about the weather. As you will not have failed to notice, this past [...]
>This country's inability to deal with a bit of snow is astounding! Canada, Russia and most of Europe must be laughing at us right now. 50-60 years ago we used to have dumps of snow measuring in the meters, not a couple of inches and we coped fine then! What’s gone wrong? We have become [...]
>As Christmas approaches, many of us will be thinking of a nice two weeks where we get to leave our jobs behind. But how many of us will really be taking a full two weeks off?We officially finish for the year on the 18th December, but we will be open for the weekend, and for [...]
>While RCG is suffering from the winter blues, I'll try and be a bit more cheery!While the industry goes into its hibernation period, now is the time to think about the year we have been through, and how well we seem to have coped as an industry.The beginning of the year brought the most financially [...]
>With only a few trading weeks left we are still finding business flowing at a brisk pace. This was in complete contrast to this time last year. We have only a few fitting dates left before we close for Christmas and at the rate we are doing business this week we may have all those [...]
>The UK economy was dealt a bit of a disaster blow this morning after it was revealed the economy shrunk a further -0.4% in the last quarter, meaning we remain in recession. It was widely expected for the UK to return to growth in the last quarter, but these negative results may dampen the mood [...]
>Just heard on the news that there is likely to be industrial action taken by the Royal Mail staff, design to cause disruption, especially at Christmas. Not helpful for any company!My advice, as soon as we know the dates of when these strikes are going to happen, send and receive everything you can by email. [...]
>We've been speaking to a number of people within the industry and those ringing up looking for jobs and we're getting the same message: leads are gold dust. A salesman rang yesterday in the hope that we had a sales position available (which unfortunately we didn't) but told us that after working for three of [...]
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