by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Jul 11, 2011 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Management, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
We were invited to write an article for a construction trade body and, being supporters of independent businesses, local businesses and small businesses we didn’t want to write about ourselves. Instead we opted to be ourselves and do what we always do which is to share our experiences. We wrote about how ‘Times are Changing’ [...]
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Jun 2, 2011 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Market Update, Miscellaneous, News, Newsletter, Noteworthy News, Uncategorized
The health status of micro and small businesses improved , according to Experian’s April Insolvency Index which revealed that 0.55% fewer UK companies become insolvent, 1,808 in number (0.10% of active businesses), compared to the same period last year. There has been an increase of 4.44% year-on-year amongst medium sized companies, whilst the big boys [...]
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Jun 9, 2010 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Management, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
‘Pile it high and sell it cheap’ is the well known model for Tesco founder Cohen and, when the market changed, they changed their model, and kept on changing. Further changes, arguably in response to consumer demand after Sir Terry Leahy arrived, continued. Such consumer demand is responsible for a fascinating article by Leo Hackman, [...]
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Mar 15, 2010 | Blog, Business, Economy, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
We could be in danger of showing our ages but, on a sunny March Monday with a gentle breeze, we’re reminded of the days when Monday was traditionally washing day; which in turn reminded us of a brilliant article, last year, in the NY Times . The premise was that looking around at the way we [...]
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Jan 20, 2010 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
A recent game of Trivial Pursuit and a newspaper article (which incidentally has some very interesting comments attached) prompted the question, how did the Roman Empire manage to decline when they had so much at their disposal? From our limited understanding, we’d believed that Roman society was built on its strengths of lateral thinking and being [...]
