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It’s now well-documented that stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated an existing shift in retail from physical to online. Regular or occasional online shoppers increased their online shopping, of course, and began buying things online that they previously hadn’t, but there was also a huge, sudden growth in first-time online shoppers. Many older people, for instance, who were perhaps most vulnerable to the virus, turned to online grocery shopping for the first ...
Owners of Business Neglect Own Finances
Business owners are increasingly reliant on their business as a "job for life" which will pay for th...
Bright prospects for UK hotel sector
The latest forecast from PriceWaterhouseCoopers has shown that the future for the hotel sector is lo...
Calls For European Court of competition
The Confederation of British Industry has called for the appeals process against European Commission...
Quarter of UK SME Owners Considering Sale Over Next 3 Years
Recent research by the Tenon Forum, a think tank made up of leading entrepreneurs from the UK's...
Ten takeover disasters how to avoid them
Taking over another company can quickly turn from an exciting venture into a nightmare if the deal i...
Private Company Price Index (PCPI)
It has been a busy last six months for mergers and acquisitions and early indications at the start o...
Growing trend for vendor due diligence
As trade buyers return in greater numbers to the M&A market, there is increasing competition to buy ...
Poor Performance of family run businesses
Five years of research by the Centre for Economics Performance at the London School of Economics, an...
Will 2007 be another record year?
2006 has been a record year for global M&A, and the latest reports from financial institutions show ...