Elevate - for business leaders
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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Monday, December 06, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
My big decision
| Tags: business,
entrepreneurs,
entrepreneur,
risk,
retail,
Luke Johnson,
franchise,
My Big Decision,
food,
Pizza Express,
takeover,
restaurant
Like many serial entrepreneurs, Luke Johnson believes in getting off your behind, facing down the risks and rising to a challenge. Never more so than in 1992, when he was living on an overdraft in order to help finance a reverse takeover of Pizza Express. It was a transformational moment, which he relives here as the latest subject of Grant Thornton’s My Big Decision series.
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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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Friday, September 03, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Retail sector
| Tags: business,
entrepreneur,
CEO,
online,
interview,
retail,
Nick Robertson,
ASOS,
e-commerce,
shopping
Since internet fashion retailer began 10 years ago,
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Thursday, August 26, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Retail sector,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: innovation,
business,
survey,
report,
data,
business models,
retail,
analysis,
comment
Retailers desperately need to review or renew the way they do business in order to survive profound changes in the market and the economy – that was the finding of our recent
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Thursday, August 12, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Economy,
Retail sector,
Thought Leadership
| Tags: innovation,
survey,
report,
data,
business models,
retail
…and suggests that it is time for retailers to move beyond cost-cutting as the main thrust in their business models. Read on for details of the full report.
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Financing
| Tags: economy,
international,
M&A,
retail,
corporate finance,
mid-market,
Private Equity,
Stephen Baker,
support services,
transactions,
consolidation
.
Which sectors are experiencing an increase in deal activity? And what types of buyers are the most active? In an interview with
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Monday, February 22, 2010 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
My big decision,
Retail sector
| Tags: entrepreneurs,
retail,
My Big Decision,
business leaders,
George,
George Davies,
Next,
GIVe,
per una
George Davies is big in women’s clothing – so to speak. He launched Next, George at Asda and per una at Marks & Spencer. But, says Britain’s ‘King of the High Street’ – the latest subject in Grant Thornton’s
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 | Posted by: Fiona Cullinan
Categories:
Media sector,
Retail sector
| Tags: business,
Alex Connock,
entrepreneurs,
links,
media,
Ros Simmons,
diary,
VIE at home,
Ten Alps,
retail,
VIE,
Entrepreneur’s Diary
This summer, the Elevate blog followed two leading UK entrepreneurs to find out what CEO life is like, especially during a recession. For three months, Alex Connock, chief executive of Ten Alps PLC, and Ros Simmons, head of VIE at home, posted a weekly
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