Top 150 consultants more optimistic about trading conditions than a year ago

By Carl Brown2023-09-13T06:00:00

Firms defy wider gloom with 80% of companies reckoning business will get better or stay same in coming 12 months

Four in five of the largest built environment consultants now expect trading conditions to improve or stabilise in the coming months, defying the gloom that has struck other parts of the construction sector and the wider economy which this week saw 12,500 jobs lost with the collapse of the Wilko retail chain.

Building’s annual Top 150 Consultants survey findings, published on Friday, will show that 81% of firm expect trading conditions to improve or remain stable over the next 12 months, compared to 65% the previous year.

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