What industry or items do you think have been affected in this Pandemic?

AMKC

Myself I think bikes and games sales must be doing good. I see a lot more bikes around these days which is good and game sales because more people stuck at home with more time so they must be doing good surely.

is_that_so

Apparently replacement windows! Know of two companies booked out till Christmas.

Blowfish

Zoom.

On a more local level, I'd say the office furniture businesses are doing pretty well from all the WFH newbies.

Temptamperu

The local offie in the supervalue down the road is doing a roaring trade.

jaffa20

Amazon

PsychoPete

More cyclists? great, just what we need

GreeBo

Anyone selling Perspex, Polycarbonate or Acrylic sheets, orders out the door.

zoom

Be right back

Companies making hand sanitizers !!

4068ac1elhodqr

China (+7% GDP 2020).

Thomas..

Covid Co.

Darc19

Any decent online store.

Bicycle shops

E scooters

Any delivery service

Grocery

Furniture stores

Tradesmen esp painters and decorators.



A huge number of industries have boomed. Taxi drivers are now driving dpd and anpost vans, bar workers are now retail workers etc etc.

enricoh

Log cabins, loadsa people getting them in as home offices.

Thomas..

Darc19 wrote: »

Taxi drivers are now driving dpd and anpost vans.

They wouldn't have enough hours in the day to do all 3 jobs ?

bottlebrush

Heating oil and other winter fuel for the workers from home

Porn industry.

Gruffalux

UV Light product makers. Perspex. Elastic band manufacturers. People who lease welfare units to building sites. Yellow ink suppliers. Hand wash companies. Hand sanitiser - I have been using the handmade soap company, an Irish firm, because their sanitiser smells lovely and I really hate the other chemical smelling stuff. Amazon. Online shopping generally. Cloth mask makers on Etsy. Seed suppliers and garden places online. Local shops during lockdown - our village shopkeeper must have become a billionaire.

Thomas..

Sign making companies

Timing belt

Off-licences have never sold so much booze...they must be swimming in cash

Greyfox

Delighted the games industry is doing really well. Also broadband companies are doing really well.

NovemberWren

Stockbrokers. - There are thousands of Sinn Fein unemployed who avidly trade on the web. [as also do Postmen, Bus Drivers, etc. etc.].

4068ac1elhodqr

The World's Billionaires {$10.2trillion}:

A report by Swiss bank UBS found that billionaires increased their wealth by more than a quarter (+27.5%) at the height of the crisis from April to July, just as millions of people around the world lost their jobs or were struggling to get by on government schemes.

TheValeyard

Hair trimmers

Mad_maxx

is_that_so wrote: »

Apparently replacement windows! Know of two companies booked out till Christmas.

people spending more time at home , not hugely surprising

An Ri rua

Ministerial advisors. A growth industry of the blind leading the dumb.

mobileforest

Affected? Both positive and negative? Positive, internet security services. Negative would be the cruise ship industry. I bet those guys feel like the blimp industry following the Hindenburg disaster.

Thomas..

mobileforest wrote: »

Affected? Both positive and negative? Positive, internet security services. Negative would be the cruise ship industry. I bet those guys feel like the blimp industry following the Hindenburg disaster.

The fire brigade following the Hindenburg disaster

ruwithme

Menswear clothes shop and ladies boutiques days must be slow.

JohnnyFlash

Catering very badly affected. My business was supplying high-speed/rapid cook ovens, microwaves, commercial toasters, steamers etc to delis, canteens, pubs and the like.

Business literally disappeared overnight. Had to let 14 lads go. Rehired one of them to carry out the small bit of maintenance and repair work that is still ongoing, but no sales at all. Almost impossible get paid as well. In fairness I never held too much stock, so there's that.

I'd had a mighty before years before that in fairness, and will be grand, but it's the lads you'd feel sorry for. All Eastern European and nearly all with young families. Very hard for all businesses involved in catering - food suppliers, equipment providers, maintenance etc.

Aongus Von Bismarck

Courier and Logistic services.

Online education and training.

Home gym equipment providers.

Tech in general, but especially online meeting and collaboration platforms, and cybersecurity firms/professionals.

Discount supermarkets and local butchers/grocers/bakeries.

Kylta

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Porn industry.

And thethe sales if tissue paper for the above

grayzer75

Puppy farms

grayzer75

Toilet Roll

Kylta

grayzer75 wrote: »

Puppy farms

Because the chinese takeaways where running out of meat

Hobbys like Models and model railways.

Raspberry Pi. I have a bunch of them but they're all mothballed.

EDIT: bit surprised that there are no subsequent posts so far.

Oh,. Halloween

Hope I haven't upset or hurt feelings because Hallowerns going to be cr@p this year.

Timothy Lemon Lobotomy

Timothy Lemon Lobotomy wrote: »

The World's Billionaires {$10.2trillion}:

A report by Swiss bank UBS found that billionaires increased their wealth by more than a quarter (+27.5%) at the height of the crisis from April to July, just as millions of people around the world lost their jobs or were struggling to get by on government schemes.

Capitalism is great craic.

completedit

Med tech

ShatterAlan

Food delivery services like deliveroo and uber eats have boomed. Should have bought stock in those back in March.


Hotel industry has cratered

Impacted personally; Cannot for the life of me buy a NEW Logitech Brio WEBCAM or any NEW DECENT QUALITY WEBCAM at the moment anywhere.

It MUST be new. No offers either: No PM's please.

Kylta

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Oh,. Halloween

Hope I haven't upset or hurt feelings because Hallowerns going to be cr@p this year.

I think Halloween will be a bit wilder this year than it has been in a long time, no council run projects, no pubs, halloween bonfires will have everybody at them, and their will be plenty of drink and drugs taken, it will be party night. Hope im wrong

Pauliedragon

Gerry Harvey apparantly saw a big jump in sales during the lockdown. He's even looking at expanding in Ireland.

Glenomra

Book sales especially online

Ekerot

Anything that needs to have a large amount of people within in it very close to eachother must be doing badly right now.
i.e Amusement Parks, Waterparks etc

Agencies and PR Firms who run so called "reviews" of both virtual and real world events who basically publish the event as "Outsstanding Success" and "Wonderful Event" will thrive.

This sort of industry was growing if not in leaps and bounds without the pandemic. Their job is to drown out the complaints and criticisms of the basic visitor or attendee

McGinniesta

Pornhub. I've been choking the turkey off myself to relieve the boredom of covid 19.

smellyoldboot

I work in Telecomms infrastructure. Never been as busy. The lockdown and netflix/gaming/WFH has turned us into a golden nugget industry. Designated essential service too. Now if only there was anywhere to go to use up all the excess holidays.

Timing belt

Kylta wrote: »

I think Halloween will be a bit wilder this year than it has been in a long time, no council run projects, no pubs, halloween bonfires will have everybody at them, and their will be plenty of drink and drugs taken, it will be party night. Hope im wrong

I agree I expect all hell will break loose this Halloween certainly wouldn’t like to be a fireman or a Garda this year

Gregor Samsa

Work for an e-commerce provider that happens to have 3 major manufacturers of audio headsets as clients. Sales were through the roof.

However, we also have a few video game clients, and while that industry is doing well regarding existing games, the main area of our business is in preorders of new games, which has been negatively affected as a lot of scheduled 2020 releases have been delayed until next year due to development being hit by the lockdowns.

So swings and roundabouts.

1990sman

id imagine the porn industry is fukt.

freshpopcorn

is_that_so wrote: »

Apparently replacement windows! Know of two companies booked out till Christmas.

I know a good few people who got new windows and doors since March.
I think they painted the house and replaced furniture and the only other thing they could do was to get new windows!