Breedon the latest firm to see numbers decimated by lockdown

By Dave Rogers2020-07-29T08:43:00

Materials company crashes into red but says trading getting back to normal

Breedon has become the latest quoted company in the sector to lay bare the impact of the coronavirus crisis on its figures with the materials firm nosediving into the red for the six months to June.

The firm said revenue in April, the first full month of trading after the 23 March lockdown, fell to 19% of that recorded for the same month last year, before recovering to 45% in May and hitting 99% in June.

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