{"id":75511,"date":"2020-04-29T09:45:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T08:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=75511"},"modified":"2020-04-29T09:45:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T08:45:36","slug":"construction-earthmoving-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/construction-earthmoving-equipment\/75511\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction equipment sales crash by 45% in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Retail sales of construction and earthmoving equipment in the UK market shrunk by 21.8% in Q1 2019, as the impact of the Covid-19 crisis in March causes a sharp drop<\/h2>\n<p>Retail sales of construction and earthmoving equipment in January and February were down by 6% compared with the same months last year. This was in line with expectations for sales this year, with a further single-digit decline expected compared with 2019.<\/p>\n<p>However, in March, sales crashed by 45% compared with last year as a result of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/covid-19-construction-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Covid-19<\/a> crisis, and this took the overall reduction for the quarter to 22%.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of the level of equipment sales, Q1 was just below 6,300 units, compared with over 8,000 units in the first quarter of 2019. In March, sales were just below 1,800 units this year, compared with over 3,200 in March 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Quarterly sales of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/plant-theft-covid19\/74595\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">construction equipment<\/a> have been on a downward path since 2018. UK sales have a very distinct seasonal pattern, and normally, Q1 would show a swing up from Q4 the previous year. However, in 2020, Q1 sales have stayed at similar levels to Q4 2019 (see figure 1).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_75517\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75517\" style=\"width: 677px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/construction-earthmoving-equipment\/75511\/attachment\/figure-1-11\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-75517\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-75517 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/figure-1-.png\" alt=\"construction and earthmoving equipment,\" width=\"677\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/figure-1-.png 677w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/figure-1--300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/figure-1--324x235.png 324w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/figure-1--578x420.png 578w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/figure-1--610x443.png 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-75517\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Major equipment types in the first quarter compared with Q1 last year shows that the most popular equipment type, mini and midi excavators (up to 10 tonnes) were the most resilient in Q1, and only showed a fall of 9%. All the other types of equipment experienced falls of 27% or more, with compaction rollers seeing the biggest decline, in excess of 60% compared with Q1 2019 (see figure 2).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_75518\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75518\" style=\"width: 679px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/construction-earthmoving-equipment\/75511\/attachment\/figure-2-8\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-75518\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-75518 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/figure-2.png\" alt=\"construction and earthmoving equipment, \" width=\"679\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/figure-2.png 679w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/figure-2-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/figure-2-80x60.png 80w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/figure-2-554x420.png 554w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/figure-2-610x463.png 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-75518\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 2.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retail sales of construction and earthmoving equipment in the UK market shrunk by 21.8% in Q1 2019, as the impact of the Covid-19 crisis in March causes a sharp drop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[308],"tags":[676,431],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-75511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-plant-equipment-supplies-news","7":"tag-construction","8":"tag-plant-equipment-supplies"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Construction equipment sales crash by 45% in March<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Retail sales of construction and earthmoving equipment in the UK market shrunk by 21.8% in Q1 2019, as Covid-19 crisis in March causes a sharp drop\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/construction-earthmoving-equipment\/75511\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Construction equipment sales crash by 45% in March\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Retail sales of construction and earthmoving equipment in the UK market shrunk by 21.8% in Q1 2019, as the impact of the Covid-19 crisis in March causes a sharp drop\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/construction-earthmoving-equipment\/75511\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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