As Covid-19 lockdown measures are eased in the coming weeks, many industries are now being forced to evaluate how – and if – they can function in a socially-distanced society, incorporating new rules that may need to remain in place for many months.
Corporate Road Solutions 24/7 (trading as Beau) has recently gone into administration. The Bathgate-based firm has cited reasons for the collapse as "increasingly challenging market conditions and cost pressures”.
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.
With turbulence in the UK car manufacturing industry due to Brexit, we decided to take an objective look at the industry to see what impact any further trading difficulties might have.
This week marks Food Allergy Awareness Week, a scheme created by Food Allergy Research and Education to raise awareness and understanding of food allergies around the world.
News that Philip Morris International is planning to phase out cigarettes and move towards smoke-free products should come as no surprise. Demand for cigarettes, a killer of hundreds of millions of people in the last century, has plummeted with less than 15% of the UK adult population now a smoker.
Bovis Homes, one of the UK’s leading House Builders has revived talks to buy Galliford Try’s housing business. Previous talks had fallen flat in May, but this latest, revised proposal is £25million higher and offers Galliford shareholders a ‘large chunk of cash’.
MPs calling for a £2-per-bet limit on popular online games to combat what they say is a “public health crisis” will completely change the make-up of the UK online gambling market.
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.