German contract cleaning association publishes survey results

30th of March 2021
German contract cleaning association publishes survey results

The trade association representing the German contract cleaning sector - BIV - has published the results of its spring business survey. The results highlight a cautious approach among cleaning and facility service companies.

Of those who took part, 60.7 per cent describe their business forecasts for 2021 as satisfactory, sufficient, rather poor or poor. In the autumn 2020 survey that figure was 55.1 per cent. Just 39.3 per cent expect business to be good or very good.

Sixty-five per cent of the companies surveyed had lost turnover in 2020, 52.1 per cent had to introduce short-time work at least temporarily in 2020 and 70 per cent expect turnover in the current year to remain the same (35.9 per cent) or to fall (34.1 per cent) compared to the previous year. Just 24.2 per cent expect turnover to grow.

 

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