Combilift raised British prices due to Brexit

Up until this year, Martin McVicar's Combilift imported seats costing about €200 apiece from a Welsh factory. Now, he’s switched the €1.2m contract to a German manufacturer

Martin McVicar of Combilift

Want to know howno-deal Brexit fears are already hurting Britain? Just askMartin McVicar, who runs Combilift, which produces about 6,000 forklift trucks annually in Ireland for export. Up until this year, he imported seats costing about €200 apiece from a Welsh factory. Now, he’s switched the €1.2m contract to a German manufacturer, fearing a hard Brexit will hit his existing supply chain.

“Brexit’s the driver - we wouldn’t have changed otherwise,” McVicar said, ...