Corporate & commercial

Business Rate Supplement Bill 'will affect local firms'

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Companies throughout the country will find themselves starved of cash when the Business Rate Supplement Bill receives its Royal Assent, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has warned. David Frost,...

Top tips for future business success

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT

PRESS RELEASE

Top tips for businesses on not only surviving the recession but coming out of it stronger and better equipped for the future, will be on the agenda at a...

Business Rates Supplements Bill changes 'would help economies'

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT

MPs have been criticised by the CBI for rejecting proposed amendments to the Business Rates Supplements Bill, which it said could have made a real difference to regional economies. The bill proposes...

Company insolvencies increasing, figures show

Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT

The number of compulsory liquidations and creditors' voluntary liquidations stood at 4,941 in the first quarter of this year, the latest statistics from the Insolvency Service show. This, it says,...

Corporate insolvencies 'continue to rise'

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Corporate insolvencies are still on the rise in 2009, new figures from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) show. It suggests there were in excess of 5,483 companies made insolvent in the first three months...

Local regulation changes for business

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

New regulations concerning local authority and business partnerships introduced by the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform are set to come into effect next...

Consumers could win the right to direct action

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Britons may soon be able to take direct action against businesses which have treated them unfairly, following a resolution made in the European Parliament on 13 January 2009.

The...

Pre-Pack sales can help

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

There have been a great deal of recent adverse comments on the use of pre-pack administrations to sell businesses when companies fail. However, the use of a pre-pack administration should not be...

Insolvency Service 'receiving more complaints'

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Complaints about company directors during insolvency processes in 2008 were slightly up on the previous year's figures, findings obtained by the Independent on Sunday...

Reverse takeover: Avisen report

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT

TRANSACTION REPORT

B P Collins acted for Avisen Group Limited, a strategy and consulting business in the UK, the Netherlands and South Africa, in its reverse takeover of Z...