I received the following email from Steve Sutherland from Dortech about a petition to the Prime Minister to instruct Lord Mandleson to investigate glass pricing activities currently being taken by the dominant glass suppliers to the UK:
The dominant Glass Manufacturers in the UK have announced price increases of up to 50% on their products, with an almost immediate effect. I find this almost unbelievable given the state of the economy and the construction industry in particular.
The timing of the announcement – in the middle of the MP’s expenses scandal, the scale – up to 50% (a nice round number), the time to implement – within a couple of weeks of the announcement, and the fact that they are all unsurprisingly going together, is in my view scandalous. One Glass Manufacturer has even confirmed that they will not honour fixed price and valid quotations – which indicates a certain lack of integrity.
At a time when all businesses are managing/reducing our costs, taking every effort to become more competitive, and support each other with fixed price agreements, the actions of the glass manufacturers clearly undermine the efforts that we are making. I have therefore started a petition on the downing street web site – web address given below, asking the Prime Minister to instruct Peter Mandleson to investigate the actions of the Glass companies. If you feel as strongly about this matter as I do, please feel free to add your name to the petition.
Although we have protested about the increases directly to our suppliers, we thought that a higher profile ‘statement’ was required, to capture their attention.
http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Glass-prices
Thank you for your assistance
Steve Sutherland
Chairman
I urge everyone who cares about the industry and the bullying tactics of the main glass processors to sign this petition.
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