Does the new government necessarily herald a new economic era? There has certainly been a change of tone, even if it seems rather more difficult to detect an actual change of mood as yet.
On Sunday 28th of July, the Opus team, Trev Binyon and Phil Norvell, set off for the skies of Cambridgeshire to take on the daunting challenge of jumping out of a plane from 15,000 feet. Trev and Phil took on this extreme fundraising challenge to raise money for Harry’s Rainbow. Harry’s Rainbow is a bereavement charity that provides support exclusively
Decades of increasing globalisation and the dominance of ever more complicated multi-national corporate groups have meant that even quite small and otherwise straightforward UK businesses have international relationships that become far more problematic in an insolvency scenario. The issues may concern an unpaid receivable, a key supplier relationship, an overseas joint venture or a foreign subsidiary. Tangible assets may located
According to a 2024 Bismart report the global hospitality market is on track for remarkable expansion in the next three years, projected to reach $1,063 billion by 2028, a strong compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.24% since 2022. This surge is being driven by a range of factors: increased travel demand, higher disposable incomes and a resurgence in both
Unfortunately, there is a maddening lack of meaningful sub-analysis of employment data for the hospitality sector, but there’s little doubt that the hotel industry has more than its fair share of the many problems with staffing across the economy as a whole and a significant part of the 100,000+ unfilled hospitality vacancies. Indeed, the issues have become sufficiently serious to
Thursday, July 4, 2024, was not just another Independence Day for the US; it marked the end of one political era and the beginning of what was promised throughout the election campaign to be a very different one. We are still in the very early honeymoon phase of the new regime, but already, the intended shape of future economic policy
