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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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FOR SELLERS Selling Your Business: The Need for Documentary EvidenceSelling Your Business: The Need for Documentary Evidence You've done the hard work and built u...
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FOR SELLERS Planning an Exit Strategy
Planning Your Exit Strategy Many owner-managers put in a lifetime of hard work building their busin...
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DISTRESSED BUSINESSES What is a Winding Up Petition?
Winding-up petitions are applications made to courts to wind up a company (close down a business) an...
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FOR BUYERS Putting Right a Poor Acquisition
The Business Sale Report has teamed up with a leading business turnaround practitioner who has put t...
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FOR BUYERS Internal Rate of Return
Valuing a Business: Discounted Cash Flow and the Internal Rate of Return Valuing a business can o...
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FOR SELLERS Company Exit Multiples
Private Company Exit Multiples Set to Overtake Public Company Comparables The PCPI, produced by BDO...
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FOR BUYERS Evaluating a Target Company
Evaluating and Wooing the Target Having identified a target or made a shortlist, the acquiring comp...
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FOR BUYERS Current state of the M&A market
A look at the current state of the M&A market for small and medium sized businesses Up until this s...
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FOR BUYERS Caveat Emptor - Dangers of buying a business
There are many purchasing pitfalls that can trap the unwary. People sell their homes for a range of ...
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FOR BUYERS Caveat Emptor
Buying a business is not like buying a car. Get it wrong with a business and it is likely to seriou...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Entrepreneurs' relief - the latest concession from Alistair Darling
First there was retirement relief, then there was business asset taper relief, and now there is entr...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Entrepreneurs' relief - how to qualify
Entrepreneurs' relief is a welcome concession to the small business community who felt that the...
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FOR BUYERS What do you know about TUPE?
The other day I was talking to a business purchaser who told me he was just about to draft his Heads...
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS Tape Regulations 2006 - A recap
When buying all or part of a business, it is important to be aware that you will inherit not only it...