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Now that we are technically out of recession, many businesses are still facing uncertainty in the face of a sluggish UK economy. However, there continues to be good opportunities for entrepreneurs to buy struggling businesses. Rec...continue reading
FOR BUYERS
The Enterprise Investment Scheme The Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) is designed to encourage investment by individuals in ordinary shares of unquoted trading companies. The scheme allows companies, which meet certain condition...continue reading
SECTOR GUIDES
Buying a property business can be a good way to indirectly invest in property. The fortunes of property companies often follow the market itself quite closely, so returns could be quite volatile. However, a well-managed property c...continue reading
INDUSTRY INSIGHTS
As the recession period draws to a close, some analysts are wondering if it will spell the start of a particularly busy period for mergers and acquisitions. Following a time when firms were tightening their purse strings, those ...continue reading
INDUSTRY INSIGHTS
image:lZEBKJLjK9ZfOjKMdDh0aOGqQkmSOOXf4PqFiVma.jpeg Mergers and acquisition activity declined for the eighth successive quarter to 445 publicly reported transactions a 20 per cent fall on both the third quarter of 2009 and the sa...continue reading
SECTOR GUIDES
Construction businesses are very much focused on people and relationships and as such have their own individual character. The people who run construction companies must be specialists in managing risk as mistakes in construction ...continue reading
SECTOR GUIDES
I got pitched a question last week from a principal of a software business. He asked what were the most common valuation approaches used for valuing a small software company in a slow-growing market segment with revenues around ...continue reading
DISTRESSED BUSINESSES
Despite the government's attempts to boost business lending, nearly 60 per cent of UK companies were refused credit by their banks last year, leaving a fifth to turn to credit cards to finance their enterprises. That's ...continue reading
DISTRESSED BUSINESSES
In another indication that the UK can expect to witness a selection of distressed businesses for sale towards the latter end of 2010, the government has been warned of a ticking time bomb of company closures and job losses when it...continue reading
DISTRESSED BUSINESSES
It looks like January’s cold-snap has found another victim, in the shape of retail clothing chain Ethel Austin. Some 3,700 jobs are at risk as a result of the firm’s fall into administration, along with its sister com...continue reading
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