>Potential Slowdown In Product Development
>With the economy grinding to a halt, and with personal spending on a steep slope down, the spare cash available to businesses is becoming ever more stretched. Yet at the [...]
>It’s All About Google+
>Google's new social media platform looks set to be the biggest threat to Twitter and Facebook since...well pretty much ever.Up to the point of writing Google+ has a current following [...]
>No Smoke Without Fire
>There is still the odd rumour flying around about takeovers and mergers. Nothing I can confirm just yet. One rumour keeps getting denied, despite the fact that it keeps showing [...]
>Renting Is The Problem
>It has been pointed out today that one of the main causes for the spate of high street stores going under, as well depressed sales, are very high rent rates [...]
>Big Home Improvements Company On The Edge
>Homeform Group, which consists of Moben Kitchens, Sharps, Kitchens Direct and Dolphin Bathrooms, looks set to be put into administration by private equity group owners Sun European Partners.The group have [...]
>It’s Time To Wake Up Sales People!
>Why is it that when companies are being told time and time again that making a decent profit margin is an absolute priority, am I still surrounded by fools who [...]
>Lister’s View On Veka’s Purchase Of Bowater
>Here is Lister's response to Veka's purchase of the Bowater group:We have been expecting Bowater to be bought for some months now as market share and demand for construction products [...]
>Official: Veka Have Bought Bowater Systems
>After days of huge speculation and rumor, it has been announced today that Veka have bought Bowater Systems.The announcement comes after days of speculation, both here and on the Twittersphere, about [...]
>More Pressure On HMV
>In an announcement expected to be made tomorrow, the trouble high-street music chain HMV is set to become owned by the general public. More specifically, banks such has the Lloyds [...]
>Buyouts On A Personal Level
>Tomorrow we should be reading a statement which will confirm the buyout of one systems company by another. While this has been big news for those who have bothered to [...]
>Veka/WHS Halo: Merger Or Veka Buyout?
>Ok, so it appears that I may have been a bit slow on the uptake of this news, but I learned today that Veka has bought, or is about to [...]
>Is Wakefield Set To Boom?
>For those who aren't aware, the city of Wakefield has had a lot of money spent on it in the last few years.Our new Pinderfield's hospital cost £215 million to [...]
>’Profit’ Has Become A Dirty Word, But It Shouldn’t Be!
>Over the past few years, the word 'profit' seems to have been dragged through the mud a little bit.This is down to two things. The first is due to the [...]
>Budget 2011
>For those who listened to this years Budget and are in business, it didn't sound too bad. Here are the main points from the Chancellor's speech:1p cut from fuel duty [...]
>Profits Up At Anglian, But Turnover Down Sharply
>Below is an article taken from the www.double-glazing-forum.com website reporting on the rise in profits, fall in turnover and job losses at Anglian:Anglian Group, the parent company of Anglian Home Improvement, [...]
>Anglian Up For Sale
>Press release from Reuters, brought to my attention via Quorn Conservatories on GlassTalk:ANGLIAN OPENS WINDOW TO SALEHome improvements firm Anglian Windows has appointed accountants KPMG to manage the auction of [...]
>Will Companies Really Go Bust?
>There is a lot of speculation that come 1st October, those who haven't conformed to the new rule changes to Part L will go out of business. But is that [...]
>Trouble For One Of The Big Nationals?
>When we went down to a recent product launch held by our manufacturers, we were quietly told that one of the big nationals of our industry had to be 'bailed [...]
>Hung Parliament
>We've woken up this morning to a result the opinion polls have said would happen since April 6th, a hung Parliament. What will happen now, and what will be the [...]
>Could The General Election Affect Public Spending?
>Taxes have to be raised and public spending will have to be cut, but not before the result of the General Election is announced. So, will the public hold fire [...]
>Budget Day
>We've now had the last budget before the election and there was no direct mention of any help to our industry once again. Though we didn't expect any did we?! [...]