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Tips on How to Handle layoffs and Impacted Hourly Workers as an Effect of COVID-19

Ronn Torossian is a crisis management expert who has more than 20 years of experience working with national and international brands that go through disruptive and unexpected events that threaten to harm the organization or its stakeholders.  He has some thoughts regarding how our country’s CEO’s need to address the tough conversation […]

COVID-19 forces advertisers to focus on the digital economy, says GlobalData

The coronavirus (COVID-19) is by far the most significant theme to affect the technology industry in 2020. It will put incredible strain on the world economy, which will be effectively halted for three months or more. Many companies will not survive this initial phase. Almost all others will suffer significant […]

Coronavirus to take £12.6bn out of UK retail spend in 2020, says GlobalData

The impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) will wipe £12.6bn from retail sales this year, according to preliminary forecasts by GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. This is equivalent to more than Aldi’s total UK sales last year. Patrick O’Brien, UK Retail Research Director at GlobalData, comments: “While the food and grocery […]

5 LESSONS BUSINESSES CAN LEARN FROM THE COVID-19 OUTBREAK

Large scale pandemics are (thankfully!) few and far between, but this relative rarity often leaves business owners scrambling when the time comes. Besides lives, businesses are often some of the largest casualties left in the trail of a global outbreak. That’s why it’s critical for businesses, whether large or small, […]

CBI: Manufacturing output expectations fall amidst COVID-19 outbreak

Manufacturing output expectations fall amidst COVID-19 outbreak – CBI  Manufacturing output expectations dropped to their weakest since the financial crisis, as the COVID-19 outbreak gained pace in the UK and Europe. That’s according to the latest CBI monthly industrial trends survey conducted between 25 February and 13 March.  In another […]

Banks emerge as part of solution to Covid-19 economic crisis

The operating environment for European banks will be challenging, but resolution and senior debt bail-in are extremely unlikely. Banks will have to be a key piece of the puzzle as authorities seek to minimise long-term economic loss. So far, only a few banks have issued explicit profit warnings as a […]

Investors seeking positive opportunities amid coronavirus gloom

Investors are now actively seeking ‘new world’ sectors and companies as the world readjusts to life with coronavirus and looks ahead to an economic recovery.  The assessment from Nigel Green, the chief executive and founder of deVere Group, one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organizations with operations in […]