Time Finance and Start Point Finance have supported a creative arts firm with a £80,000 facility under the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS). Together, the two financiers were able to swiftly tailor a funding solution that would bolster a creative art group’s cash position during this challenging time and support their plans for innovation […]
Specialist business property adviser, Christie & Co, has today launched its annual Business Outlook report, ‘Business Outlook 2021: Review. Realign. Recover,’ which reflects on the themes, activity and challenges of 2020 and forecasts what 2021 might bring across the industries in which Christie & Co operates, including the dental sector. The report details the impact […]
Period Covered: 04 – 08 January 2021 Shop Prices fell in January by 2.2%, below December’s decrease of 1.8%. This is the lowest deflation rate since May 2020. This is below the 12- and 6-month average price decreases of 1.5% and 1.7%, respectively. Non-Food prices fell by 3.6% in January, compared to a decline of […]
The home delivery experts ParcelHero say many of Britain’s favourite high street stores are doomed to an online-only existence. What is left of the spirit of those brands online? There could be tears from loyal shoppers as Boohoo proceeds with its purchase of Debenhams’ brand and online business, says the home delivery expert ParcelHero. Amid […]
Seeking the fulcrum is an important aspect of vehicle cost management, as Iain Robertson highlights, but it also includes environmental issues and the bigger question surrounding whether, in a period of sea change, we need to, or not. Continuing my information gathering series on the forthcoming (2030) shift from fossil-fuelled motor vehicles to battery-electric, I […]
Landbay, one of the UK’s leading buy-to-let lenders, has today enhanced its entire range reducing rates on all products. It has also launched a new range of remortgage-only products with free valuations and lowered the rates on its 80% LTV mortgages so they now start at just 3.79%. It has introduced a new large loan […]
RSM’s corporate finance team has successfully advised Spotlight on its sale to Talent Systems LLC, a global casting technology solutions provider. RSM’s support included M&A advice as well as the production of a financial factbook. Founded in 1927, Spotlight has been a client of RSM for almost 80 years and has a long history as […]
The majority of 2020 was a slow year for the UK’s deals market, with mergers and acquisitions depressed by the coronavirus pandemic and its subsequent lockdown restrictions. This trend, however, now seems to be in reverse with a number a big deals on the Horizon, including MGM’s £8bn bid for the UK’s Entain and takeover […]
Agathos Management LLP, the London-based lower mid-market private equity firm, is pleased to announce a first close of its second fund. The first close of Agathos Fund II was completed at the end of November 2020 with over £30m committed. The fund is on course to achieve a final close in early 2022 at an […]
Covid-19 has thrown unprecedented challenges at UK businesses with some sectors devasted whilst others have managed to maintain enough levels of trading to keep their businesses alive. However, for some firms, they have been presented with opportunities brought about as a consequence of the pandemic. For those businesses ensuring they had sufficient cashflow to capitalise […]
