Pandemic and Brexit create difficult year for Lincolnshire businesses
It's been a tough 12-months, full of challenges and uncertainty
Last updated 28th Dec 2021
We're being told 2021 was one of the most difficult years for Lincolnshire businesses in history as they faced not just the pandemic, but Brexit too.
It's been a tough 12-months, full of challenges and uncertainty.
Lincolnshire Chamber of Commerce Chief Executive Simon Beardsley has praised businesses resilience.
"When we started off, I think we had a real hope that it would be less complicated than the year before.
"But looking at what we had to face, which was not just Covid, but Brexit as well, the year was going to be complicated regardless of our hopes and dreams."
He said Brexit meant many changes had to be made.
"There was a lot of getting used to new system, getting used to new protocols, and just the intricacies of the change from a relationship with the European Union that had been there for a vast number of years."
The pandemic was also a major challenge.
"There were hopes of re-opening more quickly, there were hopes for plans in place to make sure there was a clear patch, but that wasn't as straight forward as what it could have been.
"There tended to have been huge bumps, or craters along the road, in terms of having to take different approaches at different times."