18 June 2021
Jacqui Baker, partner and head of retail at RSM, comments on May’s ONS retail sales data.
08 June 2021
Ian Bell, head of travel and tourism, calls for an extension to the furlough scheme for all travel businesses and sector-specific grants to inject some cash into vulnerable businesses and prevent high levels of business failure across the industry.
08 June 2021
Paul Newman, our head of hospitality and leisure, calls for the government to urgently consider relaxing visa barriers to allow businesses to capitalise on the demand from consumers and give clarity on whether it intends to extend the rent moratorium deadline.
13 May 2021
As hospitality returns, Britain’s managed pub and restaurant groups saw like-for-like sales 26 per cent below April 2019, latest data from the Coffer CGA Business Tracker show. Pubs drew on outside space to outperform restaurants but still pubs’ April 2021 sales were 21 per cent down, compared to a 30 per cent drop for restaurants.
23 April 2021
Retail sales volume in March increased by 5.4 per cent when compared with the previous month and sales were 1.6 per cent higher than February 2020 before the impact of the coronavirus pandemic hit.
22 April 2021
RSM’s Capital Markets team advised on musicMagpie, a leading re-commerce business in refurbished consumer technology, on its £208m initial public offering (IPO); and the third IPO in four weeks for the team after the Admission to AIM of ActiveOps Plc and Parsley Box Plc at the end of March.
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18 March 2021
Many hotels and accommodation operators faced significant losses in 2020. With things finally looking up, what might trade in 2021 look like and what material cash savings could be made now? Read our article to find out.
