DGB Business
Fabricators Call For An Alternative Approach To Pushing Price Rises Down The Home Improvement Supply Chain
Six leading fabricators of products in the home improvement sector have called for a halt to the ongoing practice of pushing price rises at the top down the supply chain. Central Window Systems, Conservatory [...]
Open Letter: Energy Prices And Their Impact On Retail
Open letter from Rob McGlennon, Deceuninck UK Managing Director: ‘22% of homeowners intend to make home improvements in the next 12 months’*. That’s up from 16% in the final quarter of 2021. Why do [...]
ASSA ABLOY Acquires Caldwell
ASSA ABLOY has announced that they have acquired Caldwell, manufacturers of fenestration hardware. This continues the growth of ASSA ABLOY as a business. This is the statement they provided on their website: ASSA ABLOY [...]
How Much Are You Prepared To Pay Your Fitters?
I was shown an advert from a Facebook forum by a friend of mine the other night. It was advertising a fitter's position at a company. The wage was £50,000 per year, with van [...]
UK Fenestration Has To Act Now To Navigate Recession
Whether we want to talk about it or not, the UK economy is on the brink of something bad. Inflation is out of control, the cost of living is soaring and the chances of [...]
Safestyle Posts Interim Results
Earnings season continues in the UK fenestration market, with Safestyle UK posting their interim results for the first quarter of this year. This is the statement provided by the company: Alan Lovell, Chairman of Safestyle UK [...]
A Composite Door I Quoted Rose £600 In Two Years
The other day a client from March 2020, just before lockdowns came into force, came back to me to get a composite door re-priced at today’s prices. The scale of the rise was rather [...]
Window Widgets Acquires Profoil And Forms The Q19 Group
The team that acquired Window Widgets in 2019 announced the formation of the Q19 Group and the acquisition of Profoil Limited, the deal was completed on the 13th May 2022. Profoil, based in Kettering, [...]
Crystal Clear Group Limited In Administration
It has been confirmed that there is another industry casualty today as newly updated records on Companies House show that Crystal Clear Group Limited has also gone into administration. This follows the confirmation that [...]
The CMS Group Falls Into Administration
In one of the year's biggest casualties so far, The CMS Group in Scotland (CMS ENVIRO SYSTEMS LTD) has fallen into administration as of May 10th 2022. This is one of the largest fenestration [...]
Some Tradespeople Are Now Making More Than £1000 Per Week
In another sign of the ongoing major squeeze on available skilled labour, new data shows that in three areas of the UK, the average weekly wage of tradespeople has broken the £1000 barrier. The [...]
Safestyle UK Publishes Full 2021 Financial Results
Earnings season continues as the biggest publicly traded companies in UK fenestration announce their full 2021 financial results. Safestyle is the latest to announce theirs and as expected, they show a very profitable 2021 [...]
DGB Brexit
The Mere Prospect Of An EU Referendum Could Cause Prices To Rise In The Window And Door Industry
As predicted, the "In" campaign is going heavy on the fear factor to try to convince people that a vote to leave the European Union would be a "step in the dark" and could cause [...]
Could The #EUref Cause Problems For The Window And Door Industry?
When it comes to the EU referendum we are starting to be a bit clearer on one or two things. We have a date, Thursday 23rd June. We know that Boris Johnson has joined the [...]
#EUref Set For June 23rd
Well, it happened. After almost no sleep, little food and exhaustive media coverage David Cameron managed to come to an agreement with the rest of the Eurozone leaders on a new relationship between the EU [...]
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