The UK’s two big domestic brickmakers, Ibstock (IBST) and Forterra (FORT), were among the most frequently tipped stocks by brokers for the second year running at the start of 2025. And while last year ...

These effects caused sales of all brickmakers to fall from 740m in 1973 to 586m in 1974 – a drop of more than 20 per cent. The output at Prestongrange is 40,000 bricks per day. The men have been ...