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Alternative broadband providers look to M&A to survive and grow
- May 2025
UK-based alternative network providers are considering M&A activity and strategic partnerships as they seek to survive and secure growth in the highly competitive UK broadband market. A survey of 100 senior decision makers at UK-based altnets, conducted by Censuswide for business connectivity pro...
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FOR SELLERS Selling a family businessSelling a business can be difficult at the best of times, but when it comes to selling a family-run ...
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FOR BUYERS Maintaining customer loyalty post-mergerAnyone who has been involved in a merger or acquisition at management level will know just how many ...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Big data: What's all the fuss about?Big data: it’s a term that almost everyone will have heard of, but why should business buyers take...
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FOR BUYERS Women starting a business more likely to feel ‘isolated’ than menWomen are twice as likely to feel ‘isolated’ when starting up their own business than men, new r...
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Courier to Phones 4U enters liquidationPhones 4U’s courier Inter City Express has failed in the wake of the retailer’s demise. Based i...
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FOR BUYERS Banks' lending to SMEs continues to hinder growth strategiesThe economy might be improving but it is still apparent that SMEs are not seeing the full benefits o...
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FOR BUYERS British Business Bank given green light by European CommissionThe UK’s new business lender British Business Bank, created to support and encourage lending to SM...
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FOR BUYERS Rising costs to SMEs stifling growthRunning costs to small businesses are rising despite declining inflation, the Forum of Private Busin...
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FOR BUYERS Global M&As reach five-year highThe number of worldwide business acquisitions in 2014 so far has topped the levels set in the past f...
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FOR SELLERS How commercial contracts can affect the value of your businessToday’s market for buying and selling businesses in the UK is geared very much in favour of seller...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS What’s behind the UK’s retail revival? How struggling retailers are being bought and turned aroundThe overalls can be taken off, the brooms stowed away; the clean-up job after the collapse of the re...
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FOR BUYERS What makes a successful entrepreneur?What makes a successful entrepreneur? It is a question that has paved the way for millions of book s...
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FOR BUYERS Businesses relieved in the aftermath of Scottish referendum‘Will they, won’t they?’ It was the question that dominated all of last week as the UK eagerly...
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Dissecting opportunities from distressed retail businessesThe retail industry has arguably been one of the worst hit sectors by the global recession that has ...