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Travis Perkins Reports Full 2020 Results
As we progress through this pandemic and we begin to look at life after restrictions are lifted, we are beginning to understand the toll the crisis has taken on our sector and companies in [...]
BGF Invests To Help Brisant Step Up To The Next Level
Brisant-Secure announced today that it has secured an investment from BGF, UK’s most active growth capital investor. The investment will secure Brisant’s ambitious long-term growth plans, and enable the company to develop further innovations [...]
Taylor Wimpey 2020 Revenue Down 35%, But 2021 Starts Strong
One of Britain's biggest housebuilders, Taylor Wimpey, has released it's 2020 full-year results and as expected, there was a big hit to revenues and profits in 2020. But, there was also good news from [...]
Saint Gobain Announces Full Year 2020 Results
Saint Gobain, one of the largest producers of glass and building materials in the world, has just released their full-year 2020 results. In what was a turbulent year for everyone in the industry and [...]
Euramax Acquired By Modular Group Investments
Modular Group Investments has completed the acquisition of Euramax Solutions Limited, a manufacturer of fenestration products to the construction, modular and leisure markets. Michael Garratt, the founder and CEO of MGI said, “We invest in [...]
Prices Are Likely To Rise Further In 2021
Thought you'd seen the last of the price increases? Think again. As global supply chains come under constant strain, the new trading relationship with the continent and the pandemic continuing to cause disruption, pressure [...]
Eurocell Produces A Strong Finish To 2020
It's the start of a new year and we're about to start earnings season in UK fenestration as some of our biggest companies begin to published results for Q4 and H2 of 2020. Eurocell's [...]
What Fenestration Can Learn From The Collapse Of The Arcadia Group
Arcadia Group, one of the high street's biggest retailing has collapsed into administration with rescue talks failing. This puts more than 13,000 jobs at risk just before Christmas, in an economy which may well [...]
The 2020 Spending Review – What You Need To Know
On Wednesday the Chancellor Rishi Sunak gave his Spending Review for 2020. It was due to be a three-year forecast for public spending and finances, but due to the scale of the economic damage [...]
Administrators Appointed At Total Glass Limited
In what is beginning to look like a bit of a rocky patch for UK fenestration, Total Glass Limited have appointed administrators. For some, this won't be new news. However, I have waited until [...]
Are You Planning To Hire?
New month, new poll. This time I'm asking whether you're planning on hiring new staff over the next few months. In previous posts I have talked about the need for our sector to become [...]
Chancellor Set To Unveil New Job Protection Measures
As the new rules around the UK come into force to try to curb the spread of COVID-19, pressure has built on the Chancellor to extend the furlough scheme to prevent a much-predicted mass [...]
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