A Midlands joinery owner has told a BBC small business poll that he’s now more confident about market prospects.
Harry Murray, owner of HMS Joinery of Newcastle-under-Lyme, rated business confidence six out of 10, up from four out of 10 at the start of 2009.
He reported a definite improvement in the housing market and thought people had accepted that the recession had bottomed out.
“I now feel very confident in the future, especially in certain conversations I’ve had with a lot of the large housebuilders,” Mr Murray told the BBC.
But he admitted the business hadn’t made much of a profit for more than 12 months.
Banks, he added, were not as aggressive as they had been.
