Results from the latest ONS UK retail sales figures show growth for the fourth consecutive month in August amid a week of mixed news for retailers.
Partner
Derek is a partner in Business Services in Basingstoke and specialises in working with owner manager and private equity backed businesses.
21 August 2020
Results from July’s ONS retail sales figures show the first full month of trade since non-essential stores in England were permitted to reopen by Government. Encouragingly there was growth for the second consecutive month at 3 per cent above pre-pandemic levels in February 2020.
Partner
Janet is a restructuring specialist and is an insolvency practitioner based in London. She has a breadth of restructuring and insolvency experience spanning 25 years with the execution of formal appointments, leading advisory teams as well as senior project management for a variety of stakeholders in distressed situations.
03 August 2020
The Committee of University Chairs (CUC) published its Higher Education (HE) Audit Committees Code of Practice (the Code) in May 2020. The updates to the Code are certainly welcomed in particular during these unprecedented times with significant change, uncertainty within the sector and changing risk profiles.
24 July 2020
The latest ONS retail figures show growth for the first time since lockdown began at 13.9 per cent. Yet this presents a fraction of what is required to make sufficient inroads into the debt that retail businesses have built up during lockdown says RSM.
09 July 2020
The recent report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies paints a fairly gloomy picture for Higher Education and identifies that up to thirteen establishments may be at risk of insolvency.
