Main contractors drawing up plans to step in and take over cash-strapped suppliers

By Dave Rogers2020-04-20T05:00:00

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‘Nothing off the table’ as firms work out how to keep sites going in post-coronavirus world

Several main contractors have begun looking into the previously unthinkable possibility of buying up parts of their supply chain in order to keep their schemes up and running, Building understands.

The unprecedented move could spell the beginning of the end of a multi-tiered supply chain which has been the norm in the industry for years and which has been regularly criticised for being too unwieldy.

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