Hot off the press comes news of another big takeover deal; but will suppliers be quite as bullish? Budgens and Londis are not names that have come in for any serious flak under the government’s limp wristed prompt payment initiative – yet…. Indeed, Google any permutation of parent company Booker and words such as supplier …
January is almost over so how are you getting on with those new year’s resolutions? I’m talking about your business resolutions, not the “having a dry January” ones! Whilst in the UK we may be seeing an increase in the level of goods we export, our import figures have also increased, thereby widening the trade …
and it’s now all about to kick off! The political seeds sown last year may have been in incubation for a few months but germination is imminent. On both sides of the Atlantic, those June and November 2016 X’s in boxes caused similar reactions not just in the respective home countries but across the wider …
The latest idea to tackle the never ending late payment issue has apparently even got Mrs May thinking. Hot off the press, a report by The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), solemnly titled “Time to Act; The Economic Impact of Poor Payment Practice”, puts some new numbers on the late payment problem and makes some …