Posts made in November, 2009
Faulty Towers?
It has emerged that the Bank of England was lender to RBS and HBOS in autumn of last year, for the sum of £61.6 billion on top of the taxpayer bailouts. Revealing the bailout to the Treasury Committee, Bank Governor Mervyn King said “confidence can best be sustained if the Bank’s support is disclosed only when the conditions that gave rise to potentially systemic disturbance have...
Read MoreA Series: Outside the Box – Those That Draw Beyond Confines No.14 The Pub Landlord
Making No Bones About Being a Pub Landlord There is far more to running a pub than chatting with the locals and pulling an occasional pint. With notoriously long hours, a determination for your business is a necessary requirement for a landlord’s business success. So, in one of Britain’s best known industries, how does a pub landlord respond to customers’ needs other than pool, darts and...
Read MoreTaking a Slice of Business Cake
An interesting name, occasionally coined for small businesses that are owner operated, is The Mom and Pop Shop. Independently owned and managed with few employees these businesses, like families, have the potential to grow. As such they add value to the economic health of a community and sometimes offer job creation. Usually in retail or service based industry, they remain in a single location...
Read MoreThe Value of a Heavyweight Garden
What have you done with the garden entrusted to you? asked Spanish poet Antonio Machado with the closing line of The Wind, One Brilliant Day and we began to wonder as it took us several hours to locate a specific garden at this years’ Sandringham Show - Surprisingly difficult considering the centrepiece was 8 tonnes of metal in the shape of a Sultan tracked command vehicle. Integral in a...
Read MoreHammering Down The Sale
Having recently talked about a theme tune for many a business as being Who Will Buy? following the European Commission’s concerns about the Government bailouts stifling competition and their pressuring the Government to scale-back state-aided Banks, over the next four years changes will happen and it could be our bailed-out Banks’ swan song. Although for the moment exact details have yet...
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