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Wednesday, January 26, 2011 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Economy
| Tags: business,
recession,
economy,
finance,
UK,
retail,
GDP,
recovery,
inflation,
Private Equity,
BCM,
PE Barometer,
double dip,
Business Confidence Monitor
Today is the first anniversary of the UK economy emerging from recession. But while preliminary data for Q4 2010 estimated a 0.1% rise in GDP, yesterday’s figures showed a surprise contraction – is it a blip caused by bad weather or a sign of the economy stalling amid recent austerity measures?
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Thursday, December 02, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Financing ,
Media sector,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: business,
media,
investment,
digital,
report,
UK,
growth,
M&A,
trends,
recovery,
private equity,
money
There are signs of life in the UK media sector as investors look to new growth areas and M&A activity picks up. Grant Thornton’s 35-page research report reviews the investment environment with a particular eye on digital. Read on to download a free copy of the report or to find out more…
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Economy,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: economy,
video,
retail,
Scott Barnes,
recovery,
ICAEW,
engineering,
Michael Izza,
manufacturing,
business news,
construction,
confidence,
BCM,
Business confidence monitor,
demand
UK businesses have lowered expectations for 2011 as business confidence weakened once more in Q4, according to the latest ICAEW/Grant Thornton UK Business Confidence Monitor (BCM). This suggests that economic growth next year will be slower than forecast with companies reluctant to invest and back the recovery.
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Economy
| Tags: economy,
reaction,
analysis,
George Osborne,
Budget,
recovery,
deficit,
Stephen Gifford,
CSR,
risks,
spending review
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Friday, August 27, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Economy
| Tags: business,
tax,
recession,
investment,
CEO,
budget,
Scott Barnes,
recovery,
ICAEW,
Michael Izza,
BCM,
Business confidence monitor
Confidence among businesses has fallen according to the latest
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Thursday, May 13, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Business advice,
Financing ,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: business,
economy,
research,
finance,
survey,
international,
strategy,
growth,
data,
M&A,
analysis,
debt,
funding,
recovery,
financial crisis,
mid-market,
cost-cutting,
lending
Grant Thornton’s latest research in conjunction with Mergermarket surveyed 150 CEOs and CFOs in the first quarter of 2010 on how and where the UK’s mid-market businesses are looking to fund present and future growth. The
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Thursday, April 29, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Financing ,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: business,
investment,
report,
M&A,
recovery,
money,
outsourcing,
support services
The second report in Grant Thornton’s series looking at where the smart money is going in business was released this week. This time the focus is on the support services sector, which has already seen a strong recovery in the value of private equity investments in 2010.
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Monday, March 01, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Economy,
Infographic,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: recession,
infographic,
chart,
recovery,
forecast,
International Business Report,
privately held businesses,
revenues,
optimism, double-dip
Can you guess which country is the most economically optimistic in the world right now? Would China be top of your list? Or perhaps India? If so, then you’d be wrong on both counts. Grant Thornton’s latest infographic reveals which economies are smiling, which are po-faced and which are downright unhappy about their projected revenues. Here’s how we put it together…
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Friday, January 15, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Economy,
Infographic,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: recession,
infographic,
chart,
GDP,
recovery,
economic growth,
race
Predicting when an economy will grow or shrink is an inexact science, but Grant Thornton’s latest infographic takes the pulse of 14 recession-hit economies around the world to assess their economic fitness. It looks at GDP figures between 1997-2009 to see how countries such as the UK, France, Germany and the USA have performed – and to see who’s winning the race back to economic growth…
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Economy
| Tags: business,
recession,
Alistair Darling,
recovery,
forecast,
CBI,
outlook,
Mervyn King,
Institute of Directors
In January business minister Baroness Vadera talked of ‘a few green shoots’ of recovery. This week chancellor Alistair Darling and Bank of England governor Mervyn King suggested a UK recovery as early as the end of 2009.
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