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Hotel insolvencies up, but business travel could provide a boost
- April 2024
A new report has revealed a significant increase in UK hotel insolvencies over the past year, as operators continue to struggle with a slew of adverse conditions. However, a potential recovery in business travel during 2024 suggests there could be light at the end of the tunnel for an industry that ...
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DISTRESSED BUSINESSES Portsmouth faces administration if business buyer not found
Hot on the heels of Crystal Palace Football Club's confirmation that it had fallen into adminis...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS UK braced for wave of M&A activity in 2010
Following the £11.5 billion takeover of British confectioner Cadbury by the American food giant Kra...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Mergers & acquisition boom forecast for food and drink sector
A recovery in mergers and acquisitions has been forecast for the UK's food and drink sector in ...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Healthcare property attracts risk-averse investors
Investors are looking at the healthcare sector with renewed interest after the property downturn pro...
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DISTRESSED BUSINESSES Canny business buyers contribute to rise in distressed acquisitions
Canny bargain-hunters seizing on the opportunity to buy a business while values are low are one of t...
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DISTRESSED BUSINESSES Publishing firm issued with winding up petition
Following an investigation by the Companies Investigation Branch of the Department of Business, a pu...
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DISTRESSED BUSINESSES Somerset business sale confirmed by insolvency group
Insolvency group Menzies Corporate Restructuring (MCR) has confirmed that the packaging firm Riversi...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Right conditions in place for tech M&A to pick up
Analysts from KPMG have already singled out the technology sector as ripe for a wave of M&A activity...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS British staycation trend sees hotel insolvencies surge
The last three months of 2009 saw a drop in company insolvencies in every UK sector except that of h...
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DISTRESSED BUSINESSES Insolvency lag anticipated amid weak return to growth
Following six consecutive quarters of contraction, Britain may finally have emerged from recession, ...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Clydes and Shadbolt finalise law merger
Plans have been finalised for UK top 20 law firm Clyde & Co to acquire parts of construction boutiqu...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS KPMG: M&A market set for modest return in 2010
After revisions of "over-optimistic earnings expectations" in 2009, the global and UK M&A market loo...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS OFT mulls over mobile merger review
The UK's competition watchdog, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), is weighing up whether to carr...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Media M&A deals to pick up in 2010
After hitting their lowest levels last year since the dot.com crash of 2002, UK media M&A deals are ...