While watching the Australian Open Final I thought I’d share with you details of our positive start to the year.
Obviously, the first week or two was pretty slow at the factory with the severe weather conditions and the naturally slow trading you would expect straight after Christmas, but things have picked up since. We’ve manufactured 2216 frames, which although well below our peaks through last year, was still 14% up on January 2009. The order book for February is also looking very strong.
I’m confident that 2009 will be a good year as enquiries have been flooding in, mainly due to website leads being up 46% compared to last January. Our dealers have been reporting strong sales over the last couple of weeks so I’m hoping the factory will be busy in February and March.
I’m also pleased with this website, which had good visitor figures for the month, despite the fact that I didn’t write as many posts compared to normal.
I’m still keen to receive guest posts, or suggestions of relevant content for RCG. Don’t be frightened to contact me.
Hopefully, everyone else reading this has had a similarly positive January, and I’m keen to hear what your thoughts are for the rest of the year. I would have expected far more casualties over this period than I have heard about. I have to conclude that the industry is far more resilient than before, and most of the companies in it are more efficient and ready to exploit more stable market conditions.
By the way, Murray is hanging on at 6-3, 5-3 down as I write. My money’s on Federer though!
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Cracking start to the year Matthew – well done. Nice to see positive reports — and good traffic to website as well.
Good to see you’re doing so well in what are hard times for alot of people. Well done.
We haven’t been doing too bad either, first fortnight was pretty dire, but after that things have picked up. Think we might have fitting into March, which is tonnes better than last year!
DGB – if you’ve got all your fitters booked up every day in February then you’re doing very well, I’d say.