In many recent surveys[1] nearly half of family businesses intend to pass on their business to their children, less than 44% have put a formal succession plan in place. In this blog we summarise the 5 things to do- following up in more depth in successive future...
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What can Small Busines do to help UK Balance of Payments?
The UK Balance of Payments is a sorry story. In short, we buy much more stuff from overseas than we sell overseas, and have done for many years. Some items, such as raw materials, and highly specific components we have little choice other than to import. But other...
Now is the time for Entrpreneurs to ‘take over the world’.
"The Government are not doing this.... They are not doing that". "If only the banks would ...... I think the bankers have caused all sorts of problems" Whoa....... STOP ..... Is it not time WE, the dynamo's behind trade got hold of the issues by the scruff of the...
Business Baby Boomers Benefit from Exit Strategy
After the second world war, there was a surge in the population which is now more commonly known as the baby boomer generation. Sixty or so years on these baby boomers have started to retire. In fact in the UK in 2006 there were more pensioners than children and by...