After what seemed a very long Christmas break, Lethaby & Cook are looking forward to another challenging year in the industry. With brexit solved (allegedly) we will be hoping for a bounce in the economy after uncertainty took a grip in 2019. There was still work out there in 2019 but economic uncertainty did play
It has been a reasonable summer for Lethaby & Cook, but, due to economic uncertainty, not as busy as we might have hoped. The current political impasse (with the you know what) has definitely had an impact on our business, with the release of funds at the top of the money chain particularly slow. A
Lethaby and Cook are, after a hectic December, up and raring to go into 2019 and face the challenges ahead, with pivotal decisions at government level to be decided (we hope) by the end of March. There is little doubt that political and economic uncertainty has affected some contracts commencing and therefore halted some aspects
Well that was a very busy and long hot summer for Lethaby & Cook, featuring plenty of work and long and often hard battles for good calibre candidates. On the M&E side of the business Bob Lethaby has been at full stretch on occasions, trying to find the happy medium between satisfying client demand whilst
Lethaby & Cook have had a good start to 2018 with our respective industries still relatively buoyant despite continued economic uncertainty. Mechanical & Electrical On the M&E contracting side of the business we have picked up two new clients who are feeding us work in the care home and commercial office sector but admittedly, this
With the hangovers disappearing and the excess food digested, it is time to look forward to another year at Lethaby & Cook as we continue to build on the business we completed in 2017. We are looking to achieve this by reinvesting profits back into gaining more of an online presence with regards to advertising,
Despite all the political upheaval courtesy of Brexit, hung parliaments and even talk of a ‘New Party’ in politics, the construction industry remained buoyant in the summer, despite definite signs that the commercial market is slowing down, at least with some of my clients. The biggest issue I have witnessed has been the increase in
Civil and Structures: There’s good news on salaries from our civil & structural division and confirmation that the employment scene remains buoyant, despite all the recent political upheaval. Job offers from our clients in the consulting sector, whose fees have remained highly competitive since the financial crash, have shown an improvement across the board. The
The first six months of 2017 have been hectic at Lethaby & Cook with the permanent recruitment aspect of the business really gaining momentum. Of course, for Paul Cook, after 21 years at Thomas Telford, the permanent sector is second nature, whilst for Bob Lethaby, it has been very rewarding growing the M&E permanent sector
Mechanical & Electrical Despite economic confusion as Article 50 begins its long painful process, it has been a busy start to year for Lethaby & Cook, with the M&E contract side of the business being particularly buoyant. We have been supplying project staff to contracts in Reading, Marlow, Hayes, Uxbridge, Staines, Farnham and Central London.
