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A string of profit warning from some of the world’s leading Airlines has seen big falls in share prices. Lufthansa plunged 11% on Monday morning after being the latest major Airline to issue a profit warning.
The politically partisan debate following the collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), has been fragmented into two main arguments. Some claim President Trump’s rolling back much of the Dodd-Frank regulation, enacted as part of the response to the 2008 financial crash, and the Volcker Rule may have led to a return of so-called ‘casino banking’. Others claim such regulations, while well-intentioned, have weakened not strengthened banks and financial institutions. Some outliers claim it has made little difference.
Dignity, the UK’s biggest and perhaps most embattled funeral business is starting life as a new private company. The deal, by a consortium of current investors led by former CEO Gary Channon, values the equity of the business at £280m.
Surging demand and increased building regulation scrutiny have led to soaring profits and business valuations across the fire protection market.
This year’s Valentine’s Day is set to be the most unusual in living memory. The meal for two, picked from a chronically overpriced set menu, in a packed restaurant is sadly restricted. The spa weekend away in a country hotel for the same price as a family week away on the Med are unavailable at present. With that mind, we sincerely send our love and hope to go back to being mercilessly fleeced again next year.
Based on more than three decades of research and development, the Plimsoll Model provides a graphical measure of any company’s current, overall financial health, and the trend in that health over the preceding four years. Plimsoll produces over 1600 individual market studies and rates each company included as Strong, Good, Mediocre, Caution or Danger.
Almost a quarter of all British businesses have been rated as Danger as the UK economy continues to be buffeted by the coronavirus, according to latest research from financial analysts Plimsoll.
Every business leader has those few strategic questions that they wish they had easy, ready-made answers to. Those key questions that keep coming up in every board meeting and around the water cooler cost time and money compiling that could be better spent acting on. Questions such as:
According to Andy Williams, it’s the most wonderful time of the year - but for many of the industries that rely on it, Christmas 2021 looks set to be yet another filled with disruption and uncertainty.
The business press has been filled with stories of mega-deals for decades. Little surprise, the pipeline of consolidation deals among titans of industries has been plentiful since the turn of the millennium.