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What is Driving the M&A Market in 2026?
I recently attended the excellent MarktoMarket’s Small and Mid-Cap M&A Conference in Manchester on the regional and national M&A market. Lots of excellent content from great speakers and covering areas including activity, volumes, valuations, acquirers,...
Book Review of ‘Next Gen CEO: 60 Lessons for Leaders in an Uncertain World’ by Mike Soutar
I first came across Mike Soutar many years ago at an event at which he spoke. I can’t remember the event, but I remembered he was a really good speaker and spoke a lot of sense about business. Years later I saw him on The Apprentice, and he has always been my...
The Search is On
Although we are technically ‘not’ in a recession, in many respects it feels like it given many of the economic issues in the UK. However, out of every bad situation comes opportunity. In the past some of the world’s biggest brands and businesses have been...
Book Review of ‘1929 – The Inside Story of The Greatest Crash in Wall Street History’ by Andrew Ross Sorkin
This book is written by Andrew Ross Sorkin who is one of America’s best known financial journalists. He is a long-time writer for The New York Times, author of ‘Too Big to Fail’ about the 2008 financial crisis, and co-creator of one of my favourite TV series,...
Richard Branson, Losing my Virginity – Book Review
I've owned the first version of this book for as long as I can remember, but reading/hearing it again felt like it being the first time. Recently an audio book has been created which combines this first autobiography of Richard Branson with his second autobiography...
The FundingTrap – Fast Money, High Costs and Bad Advice
Earlier this month I attended the NACFB Expo talk called 'The Funding Trap' and a discussion about businesses turning to fast, short-term funding to manage their cashflow and talked about high-cost lending, loan-stacking and repeat refinancing, and the roles that...