Home working fuelling DIY boom, Michelmersh boss says

By Dave Rogers2021-04-22T05:00:00

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Demand for product outstripping supply, Frank Hanna tells Building

Listed brickwork firm Michelmersh has said a home improvements boom fuelled by office staff working from home is set to see the firm emulate 2019’s numbers when it posted its best set of results since it formed in 1997.

Joint chief executive Frank Hanna told Building the firm’s six plants were working flat out to meet demand that was last year disrupted by the covid-19 pandemic and which saw an entire month’s worth of production wiped out because of the first lockdown last spring.

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