Stockport-based Dr Nicola Headlam has helped inform a call from the House of Lords for the Government to urgently publish its Levelling Up strategy.

The NACFB Expo is the biggest commercial finance expo in the UK.

Leading insolvency data analysts Red Flag Alert have been accepted as a member of Made in Britain, in a move that will help the best of British businesses as they continue to bounce back from the pandemic.

Furloughed workers could help construction companies to generate £60billion in revenue when they return to work at the end of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS), according to new data from Red Flag Alert.

Date: 1/4/2021

• Number of businesses in significant distress leaps by almost 15,000 in Q4 2018
• Real Estate and Property hardest hit with 7% (3,134) increase from Q3 2018 – Q4 2018 and a 9% (4,013) increase YoY in the number of companies in significant distress
• Businesses now in ‘critical’ distress increases 25% YoY to 2,183

The number of businesses in ‘significant’ distress now stands at 481,000, leaping by 15,000 during Q4 2018, after a winter of uncertainty, according to the latest Red Flag Alert research.

Patisserie Valerie was worth £446m last week, but trading in its shares has now been suspended – this has been one of the biggest corporate collapses of recent times. Here is a quick guide:

The blue planet’s growing thirst for water and water resource management expertise creates new opportunities for specialist UK businesses, consortia and joint ventures of all complexions and sizes keen to raise their global profile as international links assume a new post-Brexit importance.