Building supplier Marshalls to axe further 250 jobs amid UK housebuilding slump
by Tom Ambrose from on (#6DDTN)
West Yorkshire-based firm warns of markedly lower' profits with company hit by falling demand for new-build homes
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The building products supplier Marshalls is cutting another 250 jobs and has issued a profits warning in the latest sign of the growing slump in the UK housebuilding market.
The group, based in Elland, West Yorkshire, will also close a factory in Scotland and reduce shifts and production elsewhere in an attempt to save 9m a year.
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