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👋 Afternoon Anders,

This week's Merchant Talk includes a comprehensive free guide to support business owners and their operations team access logistics skills to help with the current driver shortage. 

We also cover the latest news on construction companies struggling to hire key trades and take a look in to the roofing and cladding sector with the skill gap widening.


If you have any feedback, we'd love to hear from you. 

Have a good weekend.

Thanks

Jamie
Co-Founder, Agency53
🏘️ The roofing and cladding industry feels the heat as material and skill shortages intensify further. Four out of five (81 per cent) roofing contractors saw a deterioration in material availability in the second quarter of the year. 
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🧰 Builders struggling to hire key trades with 53% reporting difficulties hiring carpenters/joiners and 47% struggling to find bricklayers. There may be plenty of work out there, but there is a marked shortage of apprentices and skilled workers which is holding construction back. Read More
🌎 The Builders Merchants Federation (BMF) sign up to the SME Climate Commitment and have pledged to take action to halve its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and achieve net zero emissions by 2040. 
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🚧 Contractors among the 100 largest companies in the UK have claimed up to £1.8m in furlough cash in May. New data from HMRC has shown that 42 firms claimed between £665,000 and £1.8mRead More
🏗 Construction output falls but new orders increase. It fell by 1.3% in June 2021, following a decline in repairs and maintenance work, according to the latest official figures. ONS figures suggest growth is being constrained by the availability of materials and rising prices and increased demand. Read More
🚛 As the industry faces a serious shortage of skilled workers, business group Logistics UK have launched a comprehensive free guide to support employers access logistics skills to utilise all the help available amid the current driver shortage. Read More
📈 Help to Buy statistics show that in the financial year 2020-21, more than 55,600 households bought their home with the equity loan. The average price first-time buyers paid for their home was £290,000, above the national average of around £255,000, and their typical household income was just over £55,000. Read More
 🪚 44% trades within construction have seen increase in sales since launching a new website or updating its own existing website during the Covid-19 pandemic. 

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