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Historically low interest rates, favourable land bank tax structures, the “Help To Buy” scheme (now in its 8th year), stamp duty holidays, a blind spot to the ongoing scandal of leasehold unfairness, Rishi Sunak’s £7.1bn National Homebuilding Fund…House builders seem to enjoy support above and beyond any other market.
Between the never-ending uncertainty of Brexit and the 25% tariffs from ‘Trumps Trade War’, the future has never been more uncertain for the UK’s leading Cheese Makers.
The pandemic period has been the most disruptive in recent economic history, arguably since the Second World War. At every juncture of the last two years businesses of all shapes and sizes, offering a whole spectrum of products and services, have had to adapt and learn to live with economic conditions nobody ever considered as recently as 2019.
Market watchers have seen a growing divergence over the last decade between share price and the “fundamental” value of the companies behind the stock charts. These major companies are artfully bridging the gap between what the financial picture today says they are worth and what they could be worth in the future.
Private equity. A means of giving companies access to major resources to fund growth and plan succession or the unregulated, parasitic face of the worst excesses of modern elitist capitalism?
Mergers & acquisitions could be set to rocket over the next two years as companies increasingly look to move past the darkness of the past 18 months and into a period of strong recovery.
The key to ensuring a merger or acquisition deal goes smoothly and delivers on strategic objectives, is to do start your own due diligence from the start, assess every option and build yourself a credible shopping list. So many business leaders fail to adhere to those basic principles and, ultimately, their acquisitions fail to deliver the expected returns.
The UK Road Haulage sector is seeing a steady recovery in business values as the pandemic recedes. However, new storm clouds continue to gather on the horizon and turbulence is already being felt by hauliers across the land.
Plimsoll's latest quarterly survey of the mood across the UK economy comes at a time of spring optimism and the hope that the dark days of the past 12-18 months are behind us.
After the severity of the pandemic disruption, visitors are pouring back into the world’s leading theme parks. However, while 2021 saw something of a return to form, with attendance up 70% year on year, they still lag behind pre-pandemic numbers of guests. With the industry said to need a quarter of a billion people through the doors to maintain healthy margins, the 141 million people attending last year leaves much work to do.