One of the UK’s leading providers of hire equipment, waste services, temporary accommodation and tools to the construction industry changes its name from Nationwide Hire to WowNow Hire.
According to the latest BMBI report, value sales to builders, roofers and contractors in February were 2.3% higher than in February 2020, on an equal number of trading days.
April’s BMBI report is unlike any other; the Government enforced COVID-19 lockdown came late in March, so had a limited impact on that month. However, April took the full force
Builders’ Merchants’ sales to builders and contractors in the first quarter of 2020 were knocked by the COVID-19 pandemic and Government measures to contain the virus, explain the BMBI.
Total Builders’ Merchants’ value sales to builders and contractors in November 2019 were down -7.4%, compared with the same month in 2018. On one less trading day, average sales a day dropped -3.0%.