Safestyle sets date for restarting operations
SAFESTYLE UK, the leading retailer and manufacturer of PVCu replacement windows and doors, expects to restart operations, including manufacturing, installations, surveying and selling, by the end of May.
The Bradford-based firm said it will have all the necessary health and safety measures in place by then. The move follows the Government’s update to guidelines this week amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The firm said the plan is based on a phased and measured return to work and involves a number of temporary changes to practices to ensure staff and customer safety. The group said it is confident in its ability to operate in line with the Covid-19 safety guidelines.
Staff working in the company’s various support functions will also begin to return to work in line with this phased restart, although the company will ensure that people who are able to work from home continue to do so.
Safestyle’s chairman Alan Lovell told shareholders at the group’s AGM: “Clearly, there are high levels of uncertainty around consumer demand for the year ahead, the challenges of selling in home and the competitive environment.
“The company will seek to adjust to this operating context rapidly. It will continue to utilise the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme as required through the summer, whilst maintaining tight controls on the group’s cost base and closely monitoring available liquidity.”
Since the end of March, all of the company’s locations have remained temporarily closed.
Throughout this lockdown period, the company furloughed the majority of its workforce.