Buying another company has increasingly replaced R&D to become the preferred growth and innovation strategy across many sectors of the global economy. As markets continue to grapple with the aftermath of the pandemic and a treacherous geopolitical landscape, the lack of stability needed to grow organically have seen the number of deals reaching record levels.
With news that more than a fifth of UK employers plan to make redundancies over the next quarter, the UK’s leading recruitment agencies are in for a torrid couple of months. Irrespective of whether or whenever the economy emerges from lockdown, hiring is unlikely to feature in many companies’ plans for the foreseeable future.
Coca-Cola are leading the way in showing how major multinationals are having to rethink their bounce back strategy. Killing 200 “Zombie Brands” is a bold but necessary step for the US drinks giant.
One thing that news channels, politicians and the general public have been unanimous on over the past three years has been that the pandemic has been bad for business.
Motorsport is racing back into the public consciousness as Formula 1 revs up its engines for the start of the 2023 season. After the excitement and drama of the 2021 season, 2022 was fairly processionary. However, with the launch of new cars, new teams and other changes on the grid, excitement is starting to build for another epic battle this year.
UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak has told younger members of the UK workforce to get back to the office and that continued working from home will harm their careers. But as the country emerges from the pandemic, how work is carried out in Britain has changed, and both government and employers need to embrace the latest revolution.
The government seems keen to assign a scapegoat for the current supply crisis sweeping Britain. Food shortages are increasing by the week and looming fuel shortages exploded from a potential problem into a full-blown national crisis.
For 15 years, White Stores Limited of Essex has been at the forefront of the garden furniture industry, bringing exclusive and innovative designs to their customers as well as top level customer service in the form of free deliveries and 14-day money back guarantees.
“We like publishing”. This is how Jordi Nadal, founder of Plataforma Editorial, summarises the origins, essence and purpose of the business he has run since 2007. Plataforma is an independent publishing house founded in Barcelona that has published nearly 1,000 titles for a Spanish-speaking audience. Its catalogue includes fiction —starting with the reissue of The Life Before Us, by Émile Ajar, the first novel published by Plataforma as a founding work— and non-fiction: titles on psychology, health, personal development, business, education and current affairs; among these numerous well-known and much-used bestsellers.