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Booming UK automotive industry driving M&A increase

FOR BUYERS

The UK’s manufacturing industry has been hailed as one of the key drivers of the country’s economic recovery over the past year. A large part of that has been down to car production, which has seen both UK companies e...continue reading

Liquidations up from 2013, research reveals

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The Insolvency Service has released its Q1 figures to reveal how many companies ran into financial trouble in the first three months of the year. The organisation’s statistics revealed that there was a 53.1 per cent increas...continue reading

Distressed businesses update

DISTRESSED BUSINESSES

Although business insolvencies in the UK have fluctuated dramatically in recent years across sectors and geographic regions, what is becoming increasingly evident is that the usual spike in company failures that follows a recessio...continue reading

Post-acquisition finance strategy

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In the run up to an acquisition, many buyers will spend the majority of their time on finance issues addressing how to raise the initial funds for the purchase. However, some of the most successful buyers are those who also priori...continue reading

One fifth of shops affected by retail administrations still vacant

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There are opportunities aplenty for any UK company looking for a retail space as, according to new research, around one fifth of shops that were affected by the administrations of 27 high profile retailers since 2009 are still vac...continue reading

Boutique advice firms thriving in M&A market

FOR BUYERS

As we welcome in the end of the fiscal year so too do we ready ourselves for the onslaught of facts and figures about the growth or decline of individual businesses, sectors, or entire countries. For those involved in the buying ...continue reading

Understand technology business valuations: buy for less, sell for more

SECTOR GUIDES

Though it’s often said that business valuation is more of an art than a science, we’d go one step further when valuing technology companies and call it 100 per cent art. This is partly due to the disruptive, unpredi...continue reading

Labour is the small business party, says Miliband

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‘Labour is the party for small businesses’, at least that has been Ed Miliband’s message at a Federation of Small Business conference in Manchester today (28 March). As the old red and blue adversaries begin the...continue reading

Small businesses to benefit from falling inflation and petrol prices

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Small businesses received a welcome boost this week as the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed that UK inflation had fallen to its lowest percentage in four years. According to the ONS, the UK’s Consumer Price Ind...continue reading

Post Kraft/Cadbury M&A activity in the UK

7 September 2009 is a date enshrined in the UK mergers and acquisitions calendar. On that Monday morning over 4 years ago the takeover of Cadbury by Kraft foods set in motion a litany of changes to takeover rules in the UK. By Jan...continue reading