Global directory of removal companies. the value of the hair removal devices market worldwide in 2017, with a forecasted figure for 2022. According to the source, the value of the global hair removal devices market amounted to 880.2 million U.S. dollars in 2017, and is forecasted to rise to about 1.35 billion U.S. dollars by 2022. The sector has become intensely competitive and recent years have seen established removals businesses being affected by eastern Europeans who work with a hired van and a mobile phone from locations such as public car parks. This has led to fierce undercutting on rates. Customers have become used to paying low rates for a job as a result. High fuel prices and road tax increases have squeezed margins even further, leading to the failure of some removals businesses. Margins improved somewhat as fuel prices fell back in 2015/2016 and, despite rises in 2016/2017, prices remain lower than their highs of 2011 to 2014. The vote to leave the EU may also benefit the domestic removals market if fewer eastern Europeans come to the UK to set up in competition but the international removals market is likely to suffer as it becomes less attractive for UK citizens to move to Europe.