Lockdown decimates April business at Travis Perkins

By Dave Rogers2020-04-28T07:18:00

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In a sign of things to come for contractors, builders merchant says trading has slumped two-thirds

The scale of the hit facing the industry because of the government lockdown was underlined by Travis Perkins this morning with the firm saying trading in the first three weeks of April was one third of what it had been in the same period last year.

The country’s biggest builders merchant said it had furloughed around half of its 30,000 staff in the first three weeks of the lockdown, which was introduced on 23 March.

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