Business ‘bouncing back’ for UK plumbers, electricians and builders
Business is “bouncing back” for Britain’s builders, plumbers, electricians and maintenance firms as lockdown restrictions have eased, new figures suggest.
Trades firms are benefiting from a backlog of delayed construction projects and non-essential work in people’s homes, as well as the renewed availability of materials as supply chains reopen.
Data from almost 600 small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) shows sales hitting £6.3m ($8.11m) in June, up 7{09c3c849cf64d23af04bfef51e68a1f749678453f0f72e4bb3c75fcb14e04d49} on a year earlier.
The figures, shared exclusively with Yahoo Finance UK, are from mobile-based billing, invoicing and quotation application Powered Now, which