How has your Business been affected by the Recession?

[P7 TUS]

I'm involved in property so theres no secret to my plight!!!

[bobbylondonuk]

What recession??? its called 'market correction' or 'spank the banker year'

[onlynik]

Work in IT for an Oil and Gas giant.

[RemaL]

private care home so quite busy at the mo

[mechsympathy]

I've noticed a marked increase in the number of people I see saying they can't really afford it but they want something to get on with while they wait for the NHS.

[Plotloss]

RemaL said:

private care home so quite busy at the mo

I've got a client who lives opposite one of those private sheltered accomodation places.

Estate agent was saying what good repeat business it was.

Mercenary bds

[AngryS3Owner]

Totally unaffected and still growing, however we're linked to big Pharma Co's R&D so should be pretty safe as they can't stop spending on new products.

[Davi]

I'm waiting for the paper tomorrow to look for evening and weekend work...

[bigTee]

doing the same really.


but just sacked two guys for slacking and won't carry anybody through it.

[jacobyte]

We're doing more of one thing, but less of another. We're up overall.

[welshbikerduck]

in Commercial contract cleaning, so far, touch wood there has been only minor reduction due to one of our larger clients being in the financial service sector making redundancies and quitting a couple of floors of their office space.

However we have noticed that the business centres we clean have had quite a few of their tennants fall behind with their rent and get evicted from their offices or have just folded and gone. Thankfully our contract is for the buildings as a whole and not related to the number of offices occupied. So it doesn't have a direct impact on us, but it certainly shows signs of the economy being very sick as these business centres were fully let 2 years ago, now they are chasing tennants.

Edited by welshbikerduck on Wednesday 29th October 11:32

[Rollin]

I'm busier than ever. Glad I'm in NHS dentistry as I've heard a few stories of private places being dead.

[okgo]

Its not my business, but its dying slowly, and I aint going down with the ship.

Car sales.

[elster]

I an electrical engineer for industrial work. As a small company we charge less than a lot of the bigger firms.

So we are fully booked up until about May/June time. Next big project already signed to begin in September time too. So pretty sorted and can't keep up at moment.

[shadowninja]

bobbylondonuk said:

'spank the banker year'

I thought they were clamping down on rewarding the city boys.

[JagLover]

We have basically been unaffected. People still need their accounts prepared every year and so our only concern is whether our clients stay in business.

In one of our offices (Bath) we tend to be significantly cheaper than the competition. So if anything a recession that led people shopping around for cheaper suppliers would be good for us here. In fact we have had a couple of enquiries lately on that basis.

[richardxjr]

Printing: doing less business, yes, but saw this coming 12mths ago and slashed overheads. Hence profit up.

[Adrian W]

Electronics manufacturing isnt to good a place to be right now

[mondeoman]

We're about 30% down on last year and are shedding unprofitable staff. No deadweights allowed.

[B.J.W]

Business Recovery and Restructuring.

sorry!