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Have you participated in Veganuary this year? The annual challenge promoting the virtues and benefits of a plant-based lifestyle continues to grow in popularity. Since its launch in 2014, participation has doubled each year with almost half a million expected to have participated in 2021.
The vegan food industry continues its march into mainstream consciousness. Indeed, one person every 2.4 seconds has signed up for Veganuary 2023. Major food brands from Greggs to Starbucks have significantly expanded their vegan ranges to tap into animal-free lifestyle demands. Even BMW and Mini are committed to making their cars entirely vegan-friendly by the end of 2023.
Alongside fish and energy, road haulage is probably the most talked-about market of 2021. Across the world, qualified and reliable drivers are increasingly able to name their prices. Across the EU, 400,000 drivers are needed to fill capacity, the US is seeing drivers offered up to $310 an hour and Britain is left with 100,000 vacancies as the exodus of EU nationals exacerbates a problem that has existed for years.
Like many things throughout 2020, for some companies acquisition activity has been on hold. Companies large and small have focused on keeping their head above water as customers dried up, or in some sectors battled to cope with red hot demand. Is a perfect M&A storm brewing?
Ask most business owners how much their company is worth, and they will often provide an approximate figure based on a multiplier of their pre-tax profit margin.
As we head towards 2021, board meetings should become less about firefighting existential crises and more about planning a prosperous future. For good reason, there has been a lot of crisis management in 2020, but a new year is the perfect chance to be proactive. Board meetings are the best starting point for driving that change.
It is getting awfully close to that most important meal of the entire year, Christmas dinner. The toil of pre-big day planning, the hours of peeling, the complex timings and the seemingly endless preparation are almost upon us.
A business valuation is the ultimate arbiter on whether the decisions the board makes are adding to what the company is ultimately worth.
In the most comprehensive survey of its kind, market analysts Plimsoll have canvassed the mood of the UK’s key business leaders as we enter the 7th week of lockdown. The overwhelming sense is that while the damage COVID-19 has inflicted across the UK economy is going to be extensive, the majority expect to have the financial resource to make it to the other side, and most are desperate to protect their employees.
The UK has made significant strides in recent years in transitioning towards a low-carbon economy, with renewable energy playing a crucial role in this transformation. According to data from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, renewable energy sources generated a record 43.1% of the UK's electricity in the third quarter of 2021, up from 42.1% in the same period in 2020. In this blog, we will examine the state of the UK renewable energy market, including its growth, challenges, and opportunities and a summary of Plimsoll’s financial rating of the entire sector.