Restructuring & Insolvency

Questions are being asked about the declining profit margins at failed retailer, BHS. Sunday Times reporter, Oliver Shah quotes and attributes research carried out by Opus. “BHS’s profit margin before Green’s consortium too control was less than 3%, according to Opus Restructuring, an advisory firm. It leapt to more than 10% by 2002 and stayed at that level until 2006,

Northampton Chronicle & Echo reporter, Nick Spoors writes on the financial crisis facing the care home sector in Northamptonshire, quoting Opus research and comments by our Business Risk Adviser, Nick Hood. “The care home sector is caught in a ‘pernicious profit pincer’, squeezed between Government austerity cuts limiting its income, and relentless upward cost pressures from rising labour costs and

Part 1 of the BBC Radio 4 You & Yours programme’s feature on the finances of the UK care home market was broadcast today, including the research carried out by Opus and comments by our Business Risk Adviser, Nick Hood. The package starts at 2:22 into the programme.   Click here to listen to the whole package

Following publication of our research into the precarious state of the finances of UK care homes, the data and comments by our Business Risk Adviser, Nick Hood have been quoted in the BBC UK News website. The figures make investment difficult……. It leaves a very small pot to encourage people to stay in this market and run care homes and to

Leading care sector magazine, Care Management Matters discusses the parlous finances of the UK care home sector, quoting Opus research and the comments of our Business Risk Adviser, Nick Hood. A new report today is highlighting the financial health of care homes. Produced by Opus Business Services for BBC Radio 4’s You and Yours programme, it includes research into the financial health of nearly