Imagine that your most important supplier has unexpectedly announced they have ceased trading. What would you do? Desperately Google for other suppliers? See prices soar as scarcity drives up the pricing power of remaining suppliers?
According to recent statistics, deals for overseas companies to acquire UK businesses are still occurring at twice the rate of domestic agreements. Clearly, UK PLC remains for sale to the highest bidder, but buyers continue to be a little cautious.
After almost five long, often tense years of negotiations, the UK has formally signed a free trade agreement with the EU. The spectre of no deal and anxiety about spoiled loads sat at Dover and planes grounded at airports have abated considerably.
As with all areas of the British economy, the UK’s leading Insurance Brokers have seen something of a sea change over the past few years.
Despite profit margins soaring to decade highs and values leaping across the cleaning sector, storm clouds are gathering.
The UK pet industry has been experiencing continued growth in recent years. With annual spending exceeding £7.5 billion in 2020, the Pet Food Manufacturing Association reports that there are now 34 million pets in the UK.
The vaccines are working. The kids are going back to school. The road map back to a more normal life has been laid out by the Prime Minister. With that in mind, what better time to draw a line in the sand and review and assess what impact COVID-19 has had on some of UK PLC’s bellwether, major companies?
Every company must start developing their own “Bounce Back Strategy” now. One way to decide what steps are right for your business is to look at what the best and biggest are doing and see if any of their strategies apply to your business.
At the risk of defending the "Fat Cats" of corporate Britain, new research from market analysts Plimsoll shows that rising executive pay is broadly in line with the results they are delivering. Increased sales and significantly better profit margins mean there is a “job well done” acceptance among many shareholders that they are worth every penny.
Zombie companies are being kept afloat by cheap money according to Plimsoll. Despite its enormity and the chaos it wrought, the ‘Great Recession’ that followed the 2008 financial crash didn’t force as many companies out of business as you would normally expect.