Christmas Woes For Comet. But You Have To Embrace The Internet!
The news just doesn't get better for one of the UK's largest electrical retail giants, Comet. Last week, administrators Deloitte announced that they would have to close a further 125 [...]
Where’s The Tax?!
On Monday, a parliamentary committee gave the UK heads of some of the world's biggest companies a massive grilling over the way they pay tax in this country. Well, when [...]
What Should It Cost?
The price of our goods and services has been a hot topic over the last month or so. Companies going bust like Uniglaze has brought into question the cost of [...]
Rankins Goes Into Administration
One of the UK's oldest glazing companies has fallen victim to the sharp decline in the UK construction sector. Rankins, based in East London and in business since way back [...]
Comet To Disappear From The High Street
Today we had the news that one of the biggest companies on our high streets and retail parks is about to disappear for good altogether. Comet confirmed that they will [...]
Born Bankrupt
Update: this post was written a couple of days ago, before today's good news about the 1% growth in GDP for the last quarter. So please bear this in mind [...]
Click And Collect
Argos today has announced that it is to either close or relocate 75 stores over the next few years as it starts to restructure the business as a more web [...]
BBC Report: Uniglaze To Close Factory
The ongoing story of the administration of Uniglaze 2 in Norfolk has taken a sad turn today. The BBC website is reporting that Uniglaze is to close it's factory in [...]
Uniglaze Go Into Administration
The tough times keep on coming for the double glazing industry. This time Norfolk is the recipient of the bad news. Uniglaze, based in Norwich in East Anglia has been [...]
Times Still Tough As Door Panels Ltd Goes Bust
The online double glazing community on Twitter was awash with rumours and speculation a couple of weeks ago that Door Panels Ltd was on the verge of going over board. [...]
JJB Disappears From High Street
1st October 2012 is another sad day to mark down in the calendar of the stricken high street. It was announced on this day (yesterday) that a last attempt to [...]
Group Home Safe Acquire Fab & Fix
I noticed this Tweet today:@Frametrade1 Group Home Safe acquire Fab & Fix#handles Surely big news in the hardware section of our industry? I would like to know how much Fab [...]
Call From The Competition Commission
We received a call from the Competition Commission earlier on today, asking to speak to the person in charge of the purchasing of PVCu materials and products. That person wasn't [...]
Good News For Launa Windows!
I can report good news! Last week I reported about the Devon company Launa Windows going into administration. Well this week I can report that they have now been bought, [...]
Ultraframe Buys Quantal, Synseal Pretty Much Buys K2
It's been a rather dramatic day in world of conservatory roofs! Ultraframe have bought aluminium conservatory roof company Quantal. And it was revealed the earlier on in the day that [...]
Should Suppliers Refuse To Sell To Phoenix Companies?
I got sent this today: If you can't read the text, you should be able to click on the image to enlarge it. Anyway, the point that was made to [...]
Avocet Bought By Atlantic Group
Over the weekend I was informed of some good news, that Avocet have been bought and avoid going out of business altogether. The company which has bought the business appears [...]
Profits And Business Is Not Bad!
There seems to be a bit of a witch hunt at the minute against business and profits. It frustrates me to the core because those doing the hunting seemingly fail [...]
>2011: How The High Street Was Hit
>2011 was a very tough year for the high-street. It never seemed to be out of the news. Either someone was in administration, or someone was about to go into [...]
>How Long Left For HMV?
>HMV announced figures today that in the 5 weeks leading up to Christmas in 2011, sales were down 8.2% in comparison to the same 5 weeks in the year before.You [...]
>You Can Be Too Bullish
>Social media sights and blogs are full of companies stating how well they seem to be doing. It's been like this all the way through the recession years. Now some [...]