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...The deal will greatly expand Home Depot’s reach among contractors and builders....
...RAAC seems to have been a gift for contractors looking to make a profit....
...I think a lot of people were anticipating a V-shaped recovery . . . People are now waking up the realisation that volatility is going to be normal going forward.”...
...supply chain tightness has led to extended cycle times, and large public builders have more resources (procurement scale, access to contractor pools) to manage through these challenges relative to smaller...
...The US will need an additional 546,000 construction workers on top of the normal hiring pace to meet demand, according to the Associated Builders and Contractors....
...US defence contractors Lockheed Martin and Raytheon also report earnings as demand for their products surges. 3M, Johnson & Johnson and General Electric also report....
...The PGA Tour has suspended members who have joined LIV, including stars Phil Mickelson and Dustin Johnson....
...A hot housing market has helped stoke demand for paint, patio furniture and appliances while supporting a recovery for contractors and builders whose businesses ground to a halt in the early days of the...
...Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson is the FT’s US business editor. Patrick McGee is the FT’s San Francisco correspondent....
...But [the building safety crisis] is a result of a very broad group of people — regulators, architects, manufacturers, contractors and developers,” he added....
...Additional reporting by Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York...
...Resurgent demand from professional contractors and builders, who are responsible for a large chunk of Home Depot’s revenues, has helped the home improvement boom persist well into 2021....
...Rivals AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Russia’s Sputnik V and new entrants such as Novavax make up the remainder of the market, which is forecast to double in value to $124bn next year....
...“I think we are independent contractors and we should be able to play where we want to play,” he said....
...The AU will pay $6.75 a dose for the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine and $10 for Johnson & Johnson’s, a single-dose product....
...It was renamed after Rex Whistler, the son of a village builder, in 1953. Large sums were spent on renovating it in 2012....
...Mr Johnson argued that the home improvement trend had room to run....
...Mr Johnson rewarded him with the energy portfolio in the business department (BEIS), a stepping stone to his new role....
...This could maybe be it”, said Craig Johnson, president of the Customer Growth Partners consultancy....
...Boris Johnson acknowledged this with a visit to Appledore when the £7m deal was announced....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on February 9, 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...UK builders reported their strongest monthly rise in activity in almost five years in July, as the sector rebounded further from Covid-19 lockdown restrictions....
...“The really good part of the old guard was that everyone was a builder, and everyone was a problem solver. Dara is neither of those.”...
...Briefly Contractor G4S expects its performance in the first half of the year to be “significantly above market consensus”, and has moved results forward to next week....
...on Thursday after the ride-hailing company promised profitability in the final quarter of this year, officials in London and Washington told the FT that Donald Trump vented in “apoplectic” fury at Boris Johnson...
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