Double Glazing
How are the Glazer family’s clever financial games working out for them? The purchase of Manchester United football club, by the Glazer family in 2005, was in the form of…
Price-Point Retailing
Big supermarkets are finding it increasingly hard to compete with such a simple message. A shop that sells everything at the same price is actually quite an old idea, in…
Saving Businesses
“Monday morning spent at the Companies Winding-Up Court, in London, is a sobering experience.” The Master entered the court and the fifty or so people in the room, many…
What Business Are You In?
“If you don’t know what business you are really in you will find it hard to compete.” I came across the incredible fact the other day that British motor insurers…
Invisible Debt Has Invisible Risk Too
“Q: When is a debt not a debt? A: When it’s fallen off the balance sheet.” The official unemployment figure in the UK is about 8%, that’s about 2.5M people.…
What to make of Carpetright?
“Fitted carpets are not the most obvious thing to sell online, or in a supermarket.” Pre-tax profit is up at Carpetright, in fact, it doubled year-on-year to the end of…
Cui Bono
“High street retailers have their PR spot on.” It is well known that when we buy things we tend to find relative price comparisons easier than global ones. It is…
The Last Engineers of Empire
“Why do most British engineering firms get bought by foreigners?” Invensys, a British multinational engineering and information technology company, based in London, appears vulnerable at the moment. Emerson Electric is…
Are You Working In The Past?
“Why isn’t your business as flexible, molecular, risk sensitive, segmented, team based, information rich, socially networked, transparent, responsive, adaptive and agile as it could be?” Recently I was asked to…
Peerless?
“Can Airbnb establish a global rental accommodation brand?” A year ago Airbnb, a peer-to-peer home rental website, “raised $112M in funding, valuing it at $1.3bn, according to people close to…
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