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Threat to Pensions
In some countries – Argentina, Hungary, Portugal – governments have already expropriated private-sector pension funds as a means of dealing with serious financial problems. There are “warning tremors” that such policies of seizure could spread to developed nations, warns FT commentator Tony Jackson. [Read more…]
Fuel pump
The campaign group FairFuelUK, supported by leading fuelcard reseller The Fuelcard Company, has welcomed the initial findings of a major report to be published this week by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) which shows that a cut of 2.5p per litre would create 180,000 jobs in the first year at no net tax loss. [Read more…]
UK Entrepreneurial Spirit Under Pressure
Latest Aviva SME Pulse reveals one in four SME owners are considering returning to the workforce as an employee. [Read more…]
Changing Face of Estate Agency
Traditional estate agency is making way for lower cost, localised sales and lettings franchises, says property and lettings expert Sussanne Chambers, managing director of HomeXperts. [Read more…]
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 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…]
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…]
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…]
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