Has Brexit impacted your business ?

[genixmarketing]

Speaking for myself, nothing. What about you ? If so, what is your industry and how has it impacted your business ?

 

[Deleted member 335660]

Speaking for myself, nothing. What about you ? If so, what is your industry and how has it impacted your business ?

Well lucky you but I guess if all your clients are UK based then it’s understandable.

It’s cost us money with increased admin costs of customs departments.

It’s cost us time in that you have to go online and pay fees and chase suppliers for information.

We have a current order that has been sat in customs 3 weeks and deliveries can take a lot longer.

It’s made us search for alternative suppliers in EU so sorry for the IK businesses that are loosing out.

We are in the gift and golf accessories market. We also sell body care products and one order spent several weeks in customs and was then sent back to supplier due to the new rules on chemical industry.

 

[fisicx]

Already a number of threads discussing this. For example:

https://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/threads/my-business-cant-survive-this-mess-brexit.411801/
https://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/threads/has-brexit-caused-you-pain.412622/

Those moving goods to and from the EU have been affected. Some more than others.

 

[Paul Norman]

The simple answer is yes. Of course it has.

My businesses involve suppliers and customers across the EU. A significant change in trading arrangements has had a massive impact.

Over time, for me, it will all work out. I am in the process of moving my entire operation back into the EU where it was all built up.

 

[Opinion87]

Nightclub owner so yes, a little bit.

 

[SillyBill]

Little bit more admin, little bit more cost, business as usual for the most part. Sort of how I expected it to be. I am most looking forward to fulfilling the opportunities from European manufacturers who are complaining as to how "difficult" it is to supply the U.K. market. Music to my ears. The U.K. internal market is (quelle surprise) our biggest market by a good margin and ironically one of the biggest opportunities of Brexit is snapping up a whole load more of it. I am happy to jump through the E.U.s hoops to maintain our business there, about 20% of our business is EU export, not noticed any drop-off and we'll work very hard to protect it. If that means parallel arrangements so be it. I see the opportunity in diverging rule books to pick up more UK business if our continental competitors don't want to play ball.

 

[Iain Venn]

Business is slowly getting back to normal, but a key area of our business, events, has taken a massive hit. This has, in the short term, been replaced by business owners using flags to highlight the fact their business is open. That has helped.

 

[cjd]

We no longer ship hardware outside UK - too expensive and messy for the relatively little we did of it. Some other technical stuff too depressing to mention, but not a very big deal.

One thing that will be good for us but bad for you is that the EU countries are clocking that they can now increase charges for calling their countries which means prices are beginning to rise by huge amounts - several hundred percent in some cases. As prices rise, telecos get more profit per call. We're watching calls to Spain and Poland in particular at the moment - there's a big price hike happening now.

And, of course, the mobile operators are now removing free roaming in the EU.

You get what you vote for.

 

[JEREMY HAWKE]

We are avoiding any Irish and European work as it is just not worth the hassle and time lost

The demand is so high in the UK at the moment that we are still over run with customer bookings .