Insider is hoping to bring our readers into the New Year fully prepared. There may or may not be a recession waiting out there, but in this issue we aim to make sure their businesses are fully prepared to survive whatever the year may bring them.
Insider is hoping to bring our readers into the new year fully prepared. There may or may not be a recession waiting out there, but in this issue we aim to make sure their businesses are fully prepared to survive whatever the year may bring them. A company that aims to survive needs to make sure its staff have all the right skills to perform to the best of their ability.
It’s often at times like these, when business owners are worried about a possible downturn and wonder how they can find the funds to see them through, that they tend to overlook what is often their highest cost or conversely their most precious asset – the property their business is based in.
Bill Gates once famously said that if he was down to his last dime, he would spend it on PR.
None of our readers, we hope, will be down to their last dime or penny, but they may well be spending the New Year reviewing their marketing and PR strategy to see how it might cope with the months ahead.
This year business owners could well be so focused on their business and the bottom line that they may not have time to look ahead and worry about their pension.
We are perfectly aware, however, that the next few months will not bring never-ending tales of gloom. There are plenty of companies out there in the region who will be doing perfectly fine – and will also be looking to grow.
Insider is hoping to bring our readers into the New Year fully prepared. There may or may not be a recession waiting out there, but in this issue we aim to make sure their businesses are fully prepared to survive whatever the year may bring them. And we’ll start by showing them how to do something that they should probably be doing at this time of year anyway – a business healthcheck.
Yorkshire’s position in the middle of the UK has in recent years made it something of a hotspot for industrial and distribution property, as prospective tenants shy away from the more expensive and more overcrowded southern market.
Where will Yorkshire be at the end of 2009? Will it have weathered the storms of economic recession? Will HBOS and Bradford & Bingley still have retained their identity in their new formats? Will Creative Sheffield still be as creative as it has been? Will Gordon Brown still be at Number 10? Will we finally see the foundations going in for the new Leeds arena? And will Leeds and Sheffield United be backing the premiership? Will Hull City still be there?
Insider’s monthly look at the commercial and industrial property market in each of the region’s major towns and cities is one of the magazine’s most enduringly popular features. Over the past year we have expanded the feature too to see what those with the best view of each town – the local professionals in the community – think of what is happening in it.
