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Business values are recovering. The pandemic, that for two long years has throttled off value-added across the economy, has slipped from its perch atop the news cycle. Those that have clung to their business while staring into the abyss can surely start to plan how to recover their overall valuation in 2022 and beyond.
The economic ripples of COVID-19 have led to something of a gold rush as companies scramble to pick up distressed businesses at knock down rates. Most industries, even those enjoying relatively healthy sales growth in 2020 have been buffeted by the consequences of the pandemic. As a result, the vultures are circling and buying up their distressed rivals or pivoting and snapping up distressed assets in new or auxiliary markets.
Brexit has been and gone, but our connection and reliance on the European Union remains. Even the Department for International Trade has recommended to UK businesses to set up a new business on the continent to avoid the worst of the new trade barriers and friction.
The UK seafood industry has become THE political football of recent years. As the realities and the consequences of the Brexit deal signed just before Christmas become apparent, an entire industry has seemingly risen up and said “Enough!”
The IATA recently downgraded its 2019 growth and profit outlook for the global Airline market and 2020 looks set to continue the declining trend. Rising fuel prices, political and economic turmoil, uncertain demand and high competition are squeezing the market more than at any time since the financial crisis.
The European wine industry continues to be affected by a series of external events which are making it more difficult to operate profitably. With new research from market analysts Plimsoll rating 177 of Europe’s leading wine producers as “Danger”, these external factors could have an outsized impact on profitability and competitiveness in the market in 2023.
After their relentless global expansion over the past decades and the lurch towards all things digital during the pandemic, ill winds are to be blowing through the corridors of the world’s biggest tech companies.
Plimsoll, the UK’s leading provider of company and industry-based analysis for over three decades, has developed a model of analysis that identifies strong performance in any company’s financial position. More importantly, it provides early warning to companies, across any market or sector, that are heading for financial difficulty.