Buy-outs slump as morale takes a knock in 2011 September 25, 2011 WEAKENING business confidence has seen the value of UK buy-outs slump this year, according to research published yesterday. Buy-outs in the first three quarters came to £7.8bn, down from £13bn over the same period last year, the Centre for Management Buyout Research said. The three months to September have seen the most significant drop in [...]
If you are in an Olympic hotspot, get set now September 25, 2011 Q&A: London 2012 TIME TO GET READY Q. WE ARE IN AN OLYMPIC HOTSPOT AREA, BUT WE HAVE NO IDEA HOW OUR EMPLOYEES MAKE THEIR WAY TO AND FROM WORK. HOW SHOULD WE PROCEED TO FIND THIS OUT? AND WHEN? A. During the Olympic and Paralympic Games next year, the transport network will be much [...]
The cuts are a convenient lie for the whole political class: City A.M. does the maths September 25, 2011 BY THE TIME you finish this article, the UK’s central government will have spent around a million pounds. It is quite possible that it will have spent even more. Sounds incredible, yes? But last month, and every month this year, that is precisely what happened. For each minute that passed in August, the UK’s central [...]
A chance to build Britain’s answer to Luxembourg September 25, 2011 IT IS clear that one of the things the UK needs most right now is new jobs. Real, private sector jobs. And above all in the regions away from the southeast of England. This month, the ONS has reported the largest increase in unemployment in nearly two years, as the number of people unemployed in [...]
Don’t let the Eurozone split the single market September 25, 2011 Being a part of the developing European single market has provided huge benefits to the UK, both in terms of removing barriers to European trade and in helping the UK to compete in the global marketplace as part of a significant trading bloc that can go toe-to-toe with the US and the emerging Asian superpowers. [...]
RAPID RESPONSES September 25, 2011 Counting the cost Thank you for Tim Worstall’s excellent article criticising the financial transactions tax (FTT). The Institute for International Finance estimates that in the next five years new financial regulations will reduce real gross domestic product by 3.2 per cent, the loss equal to 7.5m jobs across the UK, US, Eurozone and Japan. Germany, [...]
Successful entrepreneurs’ advice on how to ride out the three-year glitch September 25, 2011 STARTING a business is not easy. It’s a monumental decision like getting married, buying a house or having children. So much energy goes into getting it off the ground in the first year that it seems odd to focus on the third. But the third year really does matter. It’s a decisive year when most [...]
You don’t need stacks of cash for marketing September 25, 2011 GUERRILLA marketing techniques used to be the only option for cash-strapped startups. Indeed, tales of startup business owners donning fancy dress, handing out flyers and doing stunts are not uncommon. Thankfully, the internet has changed the game a bit. The guerrilla spirit is still required, but nowhere near as much as a healthy dose of [...]
What to do if markets fall in step September 25, 2011 AFTER a tempestuous time in the markets last week, the good news is that things could be worse. The bad news is that they are probably going to get worse. The markets look set to turn very ugly in the coming weeks – Eurozone sovereign debt worries, European banking equities and increasingly dire macroeconomic indicators [...]
THE WEEK AHEAD September 25, 2011 COMPANY NEWS ● Ricardo announces today. In 1915, entrepreneur Sir Harry Ricardo formed Engine Patents, which is today Ricardo. The global multi-industry engineering company is headquartered in Shoreham-by-Sea. ● Tomorrow, Albemarle & Bond and Close Brothers announce. The former is the largest pawnbroker group in the UK, while the latter is a British bank. ● [...]
