Changes in conservatory, door and window world

Windowbase's annual report on changes in Conservatory, Door and Window industry during the year 2007 show that overall the number of companies going out of business was slightly less than 2006.

The number of new companies is slightly higher.

Even so some 7% of companies active a year ago went out of business or stopped serving the industry in the past year, but some 10% of all companies in the Windowbase database were new in 2007.

A further 6% moved premises.

In total, more than one in five, 22% of the industry changed, in the year.

Farida Hammad, Database Director says: "With these levels of changes, anyone using old data is throwing money away; whether trying to phone, call or just mail using old data".

"However, even this figure masks some big changes".

"Some 17% of PVC-U fabricating companies on last years database went or stopped fabricating during the year, while nearly as many new fabricators were formed, representing some 15% of the latest database issued in December 2007." Farida continues: "Most surprisingly the most volatile sector was aluminium fabricators".

"Some 35% of current aluminium fabricators in the database were not fabricating a year ago".

"There appears to be resurgence in this material".

"Even the number of timber manufacturers grew, with some 413 companies new to Windowbase data compared with the 200 that had stopped making." Regionally, the West of England and Wales showed a degree of stability, with major growth in Scotland and Northern Ireland, (both with relatively small populations of companies).

But the South-East (North of the Thames) is the next area that showed a growth in the number of active companies.

Only East Anglia showed a net reduction in active companies during the year.

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