The world's stock markets are spiralling downwards. The U.S. equity market fell 10 percent last month. Investor terminology calls this a "correction" not a crash. But prospects don't look good. Big investors, banks and financial ...
Tags: Economic Crisis, investment banks
DFS has secured a new £230m funding package from a banking syndicate led by Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking following its recent stock market listing. The funding includes a £200m term loan that will be used to repay existing ...
SME fund Enact has made a six-figure investment in flexible packaging company Excelsior which specialises in high quality gravure print for the food, confectionery and medical sectors. Enact's investment is aimed at helping Excelsior to ...
Tags: food, confectionery, medical sectors, Agriculture
Substantial investment in its infrastructure, the addition of new product ranges and major increases in online sales have helped retailer Lee Longlands, which boasts stores in Birmingham, Cheltenham, Leamington Spa, Abingdon and Derby, ...
Tags: operating profit, Furniture
Furniture Village, the UK’s largest privately-owned furniture retailer, has won The Thames Valley Business Magazine’s award for Management Team Of The Year, sponsored by RBS. The awards were announced on 20th November at the ...
Tags: furniture retailer, Furniture
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s economy has grown to surpass the peak it reached in 2008, before the global banking crisis caused a deep recession, official figures showed Friday. The Office for National Statistics said gross domestic ...
The Equipment Leasing and Finance Association's (ELFA) Monthly Leasing and Finance Index (MLFI-25), which reports economic activity from 25 companies representing a cross section of the $827 billion equipment finance sector, showed their ...
Researchers in Germany have developed two-dimensional hole gas (2DHG) gallium nitride (GaN) channel structures with record mobility [B Reuters et al, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., vol47, p175103, 2014]. Mobility for 2DHGs in GaN is usually ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
A week of talking about ambitious plans for the Chinese economy was followed by a weekend of reality as key economic data were released. Journalists in Beijing flocked around a beleaguered spokesman whilst analysts elsewhere were cursing ...
Tags: Chinese economy, export data
Retail sales fell in January by the most in a year and a half, hurt by bad weather and slow growth in employment and personal income. Sales dropped 0.4%, the largest decrease since June 2012, the Commerce Department said Feb. 13. Poor ...
Tags: Transportation
Factory production in the United States fell in January by the most since May 2009 as winter weather slowed the economy, the Federal Reserve said. Production fell 0.8% in January after a December decline of 0.3% that was larger than ...
Businesses will be encouraged to look at how they can improve the efficiency of their lighting as part of an energy audit programme launched by two banks. Natwest and RBS will offer their audits through Mentor, the RBS Group’s ...
Tags: RBS Group, efficient lighting, energy, commercial sector
China's exports handily beat forecasts in November, adding to recent evidence of a stabilization in the world's second-largest economy as its leaders embark on an ambitious restructuring plan. Exports rose 12.7 percent from a year ...
The move will see managing director Joanne Varey become majority shareholder while Stephen Bentley, who acquired Granby from the Omnicom Corporation, will become chairman and remain a minority shareholder. Craig Parsons, IT director at ...
Tags: Granby, Management Buyout
The Bank of England has revealed that several of the UK's banks have been hit by cyber attacks in the last six months, which have led to the institutions making financial losses. In its Financial Stability Report, the bank said that the ...
Tags: Computer Products, software