If you read the site often you probably saw the warnings that we gave some time ago about the effects that Brexit would have on the industry, what we couldn’t have foreseen was the extent of those and the addition of a global pandemic.

 Regardless of your own personal thoughts on the merits or not of Brexit, the reality is, it will cause issues in our industry.

Virtually no appliance or parts are produced in or sourced from inside the UK. By that we mean, 99.99% of parts and the finished product comes from or through the EU.

Unavoidable Delays

Over decades all distribution has, as it has been for cars, PCs and many other items, have been centralised in massive EU hubs serving the whole continent of which the UK is only one market of 27. In short, this sort of distribution is not going to alter, it’ll just be slower.

With the pandemic, we’re seeing things that took one day taking three to five days or longer. With eh border chaos the past few days that we expect to stretch further.

And, we fully expect that Brexit will further negatively impact this (at least in the short term) and cause a further delay that is completely out of our or, anyone else’s control other than the UK/EU governments.

As has been widely reported in the press, delays at points of entry to the UK be that airports or ports will be unavoidable and we expect at least temporary but highly significant disruption and delays.

We are sorry but this is completely beyond our scope to control in any way and delays and short stocked items are inevitable for all suppliers in the industry.

New Products

We’re being told, largely by trade but also now customers, that some new products you can’t get for love nor money. Many are ebbing quoted with a delivery date of April/May next year.