UK Business News

Email has become the standard for business communications. It has become an easy way to reach a large number of people in a very short period of time. Email advertisements have also become the most common types of emails to be deleted without ever being opened.
While email may seem like a cost-effective way to introduce [...]

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Charles Duncombe, boss of Holidays Please, believes that there are more disasters to come in the Travel industry, predicting that we have not seen the last of travel companies going bust.
Subsequent to the failure of holiday providers such as Destinations for Africa, Monster Travel, Goldtrail, Sun4U and Kiss Flights,  Charles Duncombe says that “Over 250,000 [...]

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Scotland’s biggest airline FlyGlobeSpan has mounted an operation to repatriate it’s flight crews and passengers that are covered by insurance, following the financial collapse of parent company GlobeSpan yesterday.
Over 4,500 passengers are said to be stranded by the airlines sudden collapse, with most in Spain, Portugal, Cyprus and Egypt, the Civil Aviation Authority will repatriate [...]

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The Forum of Private Business (FPB) has hit out at so called ‘phoenix companies’, companies that fail owing huge debts only for the directors to purchase the company assets for a fraction of their true value and start trading in a different name.
This is of course all perfectly legal in the UK and is not [...]

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Talk of recovery from the financial crisis in the UK was dealt a crucial blow with the release of the highest insolvency figures since records began, last week, showing over 35,000 people were declared bankrupt in the three months up to September 2009.
The actual figure from the Insolvency Service recorded 35,242 people in England and [...]

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