Surviving suppliers face testing energy regime

Surviving suppliers face testing energy regime

It’s easy to forget, with everything that’s happened since March 2020, that troubled retail energy suppliers have actually faced existential challenges for quite some time. Almost three years have passed since Economy Energy collapsed, affecting 235,000 domestic...
Steering stricken landlords and tenants into calmer waters

Steering stricken landlords and tenants into calmer waters

The lockdown periods of the Covid-19 pandemic took a significant toll on commercial property owners (landlords), having faced rent defaults and voids as business occupants were unable to operate and many have had to close their doors for good. Equally, businesses able...
Heavy Metal and Electronica can still produce big UK hits

Heavy Metal and Electronica can still produce big UK hits

UK manufacturing is by no means dead – it’s just different these days. Before Brexit, Covid and driver shortages, the sector faced fierce competition from emerging economies in Asia, primarily China and India, which are clearly able to produce goods more cheaply....
October 2021 Newsletter: So what happens now?

October 2021 Newsletter: So what happens now?

A well-known City figure wrote, in autumn 2019, about his annual get-back-to-work routine. Only six months before the first lockdown, he reminisced about having always started the school year in September with a new pair of black shoes, and how he’d continued the...