Williams Holdings warned that profits this year will be held back by difficult trading conditions in the building markets of both Europe and the US. Nigel Rudd, chairman, said: "In common with many companies in the UK building products sector, the satisfactory first-quarter performance was followed by a noticeable slow down in the second quarter."
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