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High value Prime Central London

Prime Central London

Prime Central London

It is apparent that the Eurozone crisis and David Cameron’s protectionist stance with regard to the City and financial services industry has provoked strong interest in high value Prime Central London property.  [Read more…]

MB Aerospace Holdings Acquires Gentz Industries

MB Aerospace Holdings Acquires Gentz Industries

MB Aerospace Holdings Acquires Gentz Industries

MB Aerospace Holdings Ltd, one of the UK’s leading aerospace companies, has announced a multi-million pound acquisition of US-based Gentz Industries.

The strategic acquisition doubles the size of MBAe’s current operations creating an international brand with total revenues in excess of $80m per annum. The group will focus on the supply chain management, manufacture and repair of highly complex machined and fabricated components for global aerospace and defense original equipment manufacturers. [Read more…]

A New Age Of Personal Responsibility

Looming Pension Crisis

Looming Pension Crisis

Britain’s workforce needs “a new age of personal responsibility” to avert the looming pensions crisis, the latest Friends Life Visions of Britain 2020 report, entitled “Pensions: The Root Problem”, warns today. [Read more…]

Invest In Growth

UK business needs to be focused on investment for growth and on improving education and skills, not on paying off debt, says Tony Groom, of K2 Business Rescue.

Britain lacks self confidence and suffers from inadequate education, risk averse bureaucrats and unimaginative politicians trapped in the Westminster bubble far removed from the real world.

Former CBI chief Lord Digby Jones identifies all these as obstacles to rejuvenating and reforming UK Plc In an extract from his book Fixing Britain. It is a picture Tony Groom, CEO of the business turnaround company K2 Business Rescue, recognises. [Read more…]