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Regular monthly sections. Agenda - news, events, Briefing, People, Corporate Raider, Deals - dedicated corporate finance section with editorial comment and monthly deals tables.
It’s that time of year again when Insider profiles 42 of the hottest entrepreneurs and business leaders under the age of 42. This prestigious club has included such names as the former Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon, N Brown chief executive Alan White, and Redrow founder Steve Morgan in the past and 2010 is set to become a vintage year.
How your office looks and feels matters: to your staff, to your partners and to customers.
For company directors keen to take up the reins, the conditions for management buyouts and buy-ins are becoming more favourable. The quality of management team is always highlighted as the key behind a successful business, and investors will back those they think are up to the job.
Like it or not, overseas investors are buying North West assets. US corporate Priceline.com bought Manchester’s Travel Jigsaw earlier this year; India’s Ashok Leyland has taken a stake in the operations of bus builder Optare, not to mention ‘Abu Dhabi in Manchester’.
Cloud computing, where network access and services can be gained from a shared pool of computing resources, is expected to be one of the fastest-growing sectors of the technology industry this year with revenues set to increase by 20 per cent.
The phrase ‘health and safety gone mad’ will have been heard, perhaps even muttered, by many of you, and like political correctness, it has become something of a byword for excessive corporate cosseting. But the important message behind the sneers is that we never again want to return to the days when greedy bosses put their workers’ lives at risk by allowing them to work in dangerous conditions.
Bank facilities negotiated in the good times are coming up for renewal. From now until 2012, a raft of three to five-year loans will need to be renegotiated with the banks, but times have most definitely changed.
As we conclude a year of Insider’s new-look international section, we return to a region putting international trade on the map for UK companies. The Far East is a hotbed of activity and spreads from China, Japan and Korea right down to the commercial hubs of Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.
As we look north to the far reaches of Lancashire, this month’s regional review focuses on the towns of Blackpool and Lancaster, where sport and redevelopment issues predominate.
A quick glance at Retail Week’s power list and it’s obvious why the North West boasts a strong presence in the sector: Peter Marks at The Co-operative Group; Matt Davies of Pets at Home; Peter Cowgill at JD Sports. The list goes on.
