ICSM's seasonal greetings and best wishes for 2022 Best wishes for Christmas and the New Year
ICSM's seasonal greetings and best wishes for 2022
Best wishes for Christmas and the New Year
COMMENT 2021 a year to forget: recession, covid crisis, logistic problems, the Northern Ireland protocol, labour shortages and of course Brexit - the elephant in the room politicians won’t talk about
COMMENT 2021 a year to forget: recession, covid crisis, logistic problems, the Northern Ireland protocol, labour shortages and of course Brexit - the elephant in the room politicians won’t talk about
As Petra Ecclestone winds up accessories business Stark with liabilities of £4.3m ICSM notes just because owners are rich doesn’t mean they can find success in business
Pic: Daily Mail
As Petra Ecclestone winds up accessories business Stark with liabilities of £4.3m ICSM notes just because owners are rich doesn’t mean they can find success in business
ICSM blasts Farmdrop’s ‘shocking £11million losses’ as anger grows amongst suppliers and customers who say their Christmas’ have been ruined after the firm went bust last week
ICSM blasts Farmdrop’s ‘shocking £11million losses’ as anger grows amongst suppliers and customers who say their Christmas’ have been ruined after the firm went bust last week
Prepare for Credit Crunch 2 in 2022 as bankrupt China’s Evergrande Group defaults on repaying debts potentially causing a domino effect like the USA sub-prime mortgage scandals
Graphic from Youtube CNN video
Prepare for Credit Crunch 2 in 2022 as bankrupt China’s Evergrande Group defaults on repaying debts potentially causing a domino effect like the USA sub-prime mortgage scandals
Remember City Link? Suppliers and staff nervous about the dreaded ‘business goes bust on Christmas Eve’ practice as fears mount over hospitality, retail and print industries
Remember City Link? Suppliers and staff nervous about the dreaded ‘business goes bust on Christmas Eve’ practice as fears mount over hospitality, retail and print industries
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ICSM's December Business News Update - including a listing of who has gone bust this autumn
Daily Mail reports Duchess of Cambridge’s brother James Middleton’s food firm Boomf is set to go into administration owing £2million
Daily Mail reports Duchess of Cambridge’s brother James Middleton’s food firm Boomf is set to go into administration owing £2million
ICSM manufacturing news: problems mount for the YM Group after making a pre-tax loss of £8.3m and struggling to complete orders on time
ICSM manufacturing news: problems mount for the YM Group after making a pre-tax loss of £8.3m and struggling to complete orders on time
Print Week reports on a director banned for abusing a Bounce Back Loan while ICSM raise concerns over insolvent PS Office Supplies
Print Week reports on a director banned for abusing a Bounce Back Loan while ICSM raise concerns over insolvent PS Office Supplies
Bulb, Avro and now Zog: the energy crisis smashing the free market dominated by the big six leaving customers and suppliers in the lurch
Bulb, Avro and now Zog: the energy crisis smashing the free market dominated by the big six leaving customers and suppliers in the lurch
Manufacturing and print industry news: more than a third of businesses are close to insolvency as costs mount
Manufacturing and print industry news: more than a third of businesses are close to insolvency as costs mount
The man who had his business Buy My Debt closed down by the Insolvency Service ‘in the public interest’ is back again with a new company
The man who had his business Buy My Debt closed down by the Insolvency Service ‘in the public interest’ is back again with a new company
Suspicions grow as ‘sharks’ offer ‘get out of jail free’ cards to desperate businesses looking ‘to dump debt’ including bounce back loans and CBILS
Suspicions grow as ‘sharks’ offer ‘get out of jail free’ cards to desperate businesses looking ‘to dump debt’ including bounce back loans and CBILS
ICSM's November News Update - including a listing of who has gone bust in runners and riders
ICSM's November News Update - including a listing of who has gone bust in runners and riders
ICSM NEWS: Surge in insolvencies as furlough ends
ICSM NEWS: Surge in insolvencies as furlough ends
West Country building firm owed £2.5m when it went bust with workers left unpaid
West Country building firm owed £2.5m when it went bust with workers left unpaid
ICSM NEWS: High-end luxury store is widely reported as being on the brink of appointing administrators
ICSM NEWS: High-end luxury store is widely reported as being on the brink of appointing administrators
ICSM News: tributes to former print industry boss and BPIF president Gerald White who died last month
ICSM News: tributes to former print industry boss and BPIF president Gerald White who died last month
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ICSM's November News Update - including a listing of who has gone bust in runners and riders
And then there were six: the collapsing energy companies leaving a trail of debts, their staff axed and their customers left in the lurch
Pic: Business Telegraph
And then there were six: the collapsing energy companies leaving a trail of debts, their staff axed and their customers left in the lurch - and now Bulb Energy are on the brink
The Bounce Back Loan fraudsters who have been caught out by the Insolvency Service with one spending his loan on his girlfriend and the bookies
Picture: CNN
The Bounce Back Loan fraudsters who have been caught out by the Insolvency Service with one spending his loan on his girlfriend and the bookies
ICSM says bricks and mortar businesses are disappointed by Rishi Sunak’s failure to reform business rates in the budget
ICSM says bricks and mortar businesses are disappointed by Rishi Sunak’s failure to reform business rates in the budget
Covid lockdowns helped to destroy 389,000 businesses in the last 12 months leaving offices empty and shops shut
Pic: People Management
Covid lockdowns helped to destroy 389,000 businesses in the last 12 months leaving offices empty and shops shut
One of Britain’s big beasts of construction has gone bust: NMCN enters administration leaving suppliers in the lurch and 1,700 out of work
One of Britain’s big beasts of construction has gone bust: NMCN enters administration leaving suppliers in the lurch and 1,700 out of work
Print Week
Print Week's Jo Francis reports on warnings that the industry will be engulfed by mergers and acquisitions this autumn as furlough ends and loans need repaying
ICSM: River Island's pre-tax loss of £50.1m is a concern to its suppliers
ICSM: River Island's pre-tax loss of £50.1m is a concern to its suppliers
Brexit and Covid take their toll on the logistics industry as another haulier goes bust giving Asda and Sainsbury's a headache (and hundreds lose their jobs)
Brexit and Covid take their toll on the logistics industry as another haulier goes bust giving Asda and Sainsbury's a headache (and hundreds lose their jobs)
Ian Carrotte of ICSM slams what happened at Patisserie Valerie: 'there's something rotten at the heart of these audits'
Pic: BBC
Ian Carrotte of ICSM slams what happened at Patisserie Valerie: 'there's something rotten at the heart of these audits'
Scandal of collapsed Avro Energy revealed: 'ripping off' customers, millions in loans to related firms, complaints from customers and thousands left with higher bills
Picture of Jake Brown from The Times
Scandal of collapsed Avro Energy revealed: 'ripping off' customers, millions in loans to related firms, complaints from customers and thousands left with higher bills
ICSM News Update: China Crisis threatens new Credit Crunch; energy firms collapsing; and ICSM’s data ‘spring clean’
ICSM News Update: China Crisis threatens new Credit Crunch; energy firms collapsing; and ICSM’s data ‘spring clean’
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Nightmare for businesses trying to get paid from zombie firms: end of furlough, rising inflation, stagflation and the Government’s Plan B (but there is an easy solution)
Nightmare for businesses trying to get paid from zombie firms: end of furlough, rising inflation, stagflation and the Government’s Plan B (but there is an easy solution)
Print firm’s collapse caused by 50% rent increase and the pandemic that forced turnover by 70% (but salvation as the creditors vote for a CVA)
Print firm’s collapse caused by 50% rent increase and the pandemic that forced turnover down 70% (but salvation as the creditors vote for a CVA)
Black Thursday September 30th: furlough ends, court fees hiked for small claims and filing for EU trade marks ends
Black Thursday September 30th: furlough ends, court fees hiked for small claims and filing for EU trade marks ends
ICSM News Update: who has gone bust and crashed and burned this summer – plus the billion dollar debts left by Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia – and who will buy Oxford Street’s Topshop building?
ICSM News Update: who has gone bust and crashed and burned this summer – plus the billion dollar debts left by Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia – and who will buy Oxford Street’s Topshop building?
ICSM News Update: the tangled businesses and eye-wateringly high sums owed by Callprint as administrators ‘won’t let it go’ as further extension granted (plus who has gone bust in the print industry)
ICSM News Update: the tangled businesses and eye-wateringly high sums owed by Callprint as administrators ‘won’t let it go’ as further extension granted (plus who has gone bust in the print industry)
Respected London-based printing company crashes as more firms in the printing, media and allied trades hit the rocks
Respected London-based printing company crashes as more firms in the printing, media and allied trades hit the rocks
Liberty Steel’s impending collapse as furlough ends; private school shuts after 222 years; and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s film company owing millions to suppliers
Liberty Steel’s impending collapse as furlough ends; private school shuts after 222 years; and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s film company owing millions to suppliers
Red alert to suppliers of Amigo as the money lender admits it could go bust
Red alert to suppliers of Amigo as the money lender admits it could go bust
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Printers, hauliers, builders, retailers, hotels: the end of furlough Armageddon is happening as firms large and small are going bust as they come off life-support.
The Bonnie and Clyde of the print industry and the strange story of how the police lost computer evidence that could have jailed a couple of fraudsters
The duo at the time when portraryed as the Bonnie and Clyde of the print industry
The Bonnie and Clyde of the print industry and the strange story of how the police lost computer evidence that could have jailed a couple of fraudsters
"It's a billion pound furlough fraud" - the real cost of the abuse of Covid support by fraudsters as they pocked cash for phantom workers and non-existent companies
"It's a billion pound furlough fraud" - the real cost of the abuse of Covid support by fraudsters as they pocked cash for phantom workers and non-existent companies
ICSM: “This is the tip of the iceberg” - Companies wound up for fraudulently claiming bounce back loans worth £230,000
Pic: Daily Mirror
ICSM: “This is the tip of the iceberg” - Companies wound up for fraudulently claiming bounce back loans worth £230,000
ICSM: “It’s about time!” New law to allow the Insolvency Service to ‘go after’ directors of phoenix companies and insolvent firms suspected of abusing Government loans and furlough payments
ICSM: “It’s about time!” New law to allow the Insolvency Service to ‘go after’ directors of phoenix companies and insolvent firms suspected of abusing Government loans and furlough payments
Jitters within the travel industry as Gatwick enters talks over its bank debts, and Stobart Air goes bust joining a long list airlines destroyed by the pandemic
Jitters within the travel industry as Gatwick enters talks over its bank debts, and Stobart Air goes bust joining a long list airlines destroyed by the pandemic
Eyebrows raised as ‘phoenix’ print firm leaves suppliers with £120,355 in unpaid invoices (plus list of recent liquidations)
Eyebrows raised as ‘phoenix’ print firm leaves suppliers with £120,355 in unpaid invoices (plus list of recent liquidations)
Print Week: future of the printing industry up for grabs as the Daily Mail DMG is reviewed which could make ‘structural changes’ to the sector
Print Week: future of the printing industry up for grabs as the Daily Mail DMG contract is reviewed which could make ‘structural changes’ to the sector
ICSM ISSUES RED ALERT: with furloughing about to end the number of companies not paying their invoices is escalating - Ian Carrotte's warning on the growing crisis
ICSM ISSUES RED ALERT: with furloughing about to end the number of companies not paying their invoices is escalating - Ian Carrotte's warning on the growing crisis
Suppliers to collapsed print giant Howard Hunt 'won’t get a penny' as administrators given extension to sort the mess left by the directors
Suppliers to collapsed print giant Howard Hunt 'won’t get a penny' as administrators are given extension to sort the mess left by the directors
Print Week’s comments section ‘on fire’ over fears for the future of YM Group due to delayed accounts and an increase in losses - as accountants blame Covid and Brexit
Print Week’s comments section ‘on fire’ over fears for the future of YM Group due to delayed accounts and an increase in losses - as accountants blame Covid and Brexit
Major concerns raised as more hauliers and couriers hit hard times – with Tradeteam’s deepening losses raising eyebrows
Major concerns raised as more hauliers and couriers hit hard times – with Tradeteam’s deepening losses raising eyebrows
Scandal of the asset strippers: ICSM’s Ian Carrotte backs parliament to quiz Debenhams duo who took the money and ran
On the left is Darren Jones, left, who chairs the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy committee, and Stephen Timms, right, chairman of the Work and Pensions committee and on the right is Rob Templeman the former CEO of Debenhams and Jonathan Feuer , a managing partner at CVC
Scandal of the asset strippers: ICSM’s Ian Carrotte backs parliament to quiz Debenhams duo who took the money and ran (leaving suppliers unpaid and 19,000 staff unemployed)
Red alert to suppliers of the construction company Clevedon Bridge after reports that it is on the ‘brink of collapse’
Red alert to suppliers of the construction company Clevedon Bridge after reports that it is on the ‘brink of collapse’
ICSM Retail Insolvency News: reasons why shops are closing are well known - but there is one elephant in the room nobody mentions that causes their demise - plus a list of latest casualties
Pic: Oxford Street Debenhams shut. The Independent.
ICSM Retail Insolvency News: reasons why shops are closing are well known - but there is one elephant in the room nobody mentions that causes their demise - plus a list of latest casualties
ICSM logistics and haulage industry insolvency news: string of firms go into administration as a quarter of SMEs have ‘significant financial’ problems – plus a list of who has gone bust recently
ICSM logistics and haulage industry insolvency news: string of firms go into administration as a quarter of SMEs have ‘significant financial’ problems – plus a list of who has gone bust recently
Printing and Allied Industries: suppliers and customers ‘spooked’ as YM Group blame Companies House for delays to publishing their accounts; plus a list of who has gone bust recently
Printing and Allied Industries: suppliers and customers ‘spooked’ as YM Group blame Companies House for delays to publishing their accounts; plus a list of who has gone bust recently
Liverpool hotel, bar and restaurant chain collapses owing nearly £113m (but the owner tried to transfer its assets before the collapse)
In the firing line Katie and Lawrence Kenwright of Signature Living
Liverpool hotel, bar and restaurant chain collapses owing nearly £113m (but the owner tried to transfer its assets before the collapse)
Welsh construction firm collapses owing £20m making it the biggest crash since Styles & Wood in March 2020
Alison Whistance (ThinCats), Jon Williams (WRW), Alex Jenkins (WRW), Jason Evans (Gambit) (Image: Paul Fears Photography)
Welsh construction firm collapses owing £20m making it the biggest crash since Styles & Wood in March 2020 - plus a listing all builders who've bust recently
Will an England win really boost the economy and do football clubs actually make money - the answer is not the one you want to hear
Getty images
Will an England win really boost the economy and do football clubs actually make money - the answer is not the one you want to hear
The eye-wateringly high furlough fraud figures as the Inland Revenue clamps down on the billions going missing
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The eye-wateringly high furlough fraud figures as the Inland Revenue clamps down on the billions going missing
ICSM Business Information: everything you wanted to know about the furlough scheme but were afraid to ask (and yes, millionaire Love Island stars claimed furlough payments)
Picture Captial FM. See the story at https://www.capitalfm.com/news/tv-film/love-island/furlough-scheme-millions-claiming/
ICSM Business Information: everything you wanted to know about the furlough scheme but were afraid to ask (and yes, millionaire Love Island stars claimed furlough payments)
Printing and allied industries: blow to exhibitors and visitors as The Print Show is moved to 2022
Print Show at the NEC put back a year as Covid-19 strikes again
Printing industry braces itself for the end of furlough scheme as companies come out of hibernation to a bleak autumn
Printing industry braces itself for the end of furlough scheme as companies come out of hibernation to a bleak autumn
Bill Wyman’s Sticky Fingers restaurant is the latest casualty of Covid-19’s effect on hospitality (read ICSM’s latest list of pubs, restaurants, hotels and events management firms that have hit the rocks)
Bill Wyman’s Sticky Fingers restaurant is the latest casualty of Covid-19’s effect on hospitality (read ICSM’s latest list of pubs, restaurants, hotels and events management firms that have hit the rocks)
The strange case of companies sold for a pound (but there
The strange case of companies sold for a pound (but there's always a catch)
Stobart Air’s collapse marks the beginning of a summer of company crashes as firms fail after coming off furlough cash
Stobart Air’s collapse marks the beginning of a summer of company crashes as firms fail after coming off furlough cash
Danger sign for suppliers: when a customer changes payment terms to 90 days and beyond (as Thomas Cook did before collapse)
Picture: The Guardian
Danger sign for suppliers: when a customer changes payment terms to 90 days and beyond (as Thomas Cook did before collapse)
The Northern Ireland Protocol piles up problems for businesses with a warning many firms will go bust as costs spiral and there
Loyalists take part in an anti-Northern Ireland Protocol rally in Portadown. Brian Lawless/PA Wire for the Belfast Telegraph
The Northern Ireland Protocol piles up problems for businesses with a warning many firms will go bust as costs spiral and there's discontent on the streets
ICSM News for June: with listings of who has gone bust by industry sector in May and updates on firms on the brink of collapse
ICSM News for June: with listings of who has gone bust by industry sector in May and updates on firms on the brink of collapse
Red alert to suppliers: London food market hall chain rumoured to be about to seek a company voluntary arrangement (CVA)
Red alert to suppliers: London food market hall chain rumoured to be about to seek a company voluntary arrangement (CVA)
Unsecured creditors await outcome of haulier’s claim for a WHOPPING £8 MILLION damages against European truck cartel
Unsecured creditors await outcome of haulier’s claim for a WHOPPING £8 MILLION damages against European truck cartel
Dodgy directors in the cross hairs as the Insolvency Service looks to crack down on dissolved companies
Dodgy directors in the cross hairs as the Insolvency Service looks to crack down on dissolved companies
The puzzle of fewer insolvencies in a shrunk Covid-affected economy – what’s behind the figures?
Debenhams has been one of the casualties this year
The puzzle of fewer insolvencies in a shrunk Covid-affected economy – what’s behind the figures?
Britain’s largest sub-prime money lender on the brink of collapse as echoes of the 2008 Credit Crunch continue
Britain’s largest sub-prime money lender on the brink of collapse as echoes of the 2008 Credit Crunch continue
Five years on, the final chapter of the collapse of Polestar is written as PUPL Realisation Ltd, (Polestar UK Print) is dissolved
Five years on, the final chapter of the collapse of Polestar is written as PUPL Realisation Ltd, (Polestar UK Print) is dissolved
Liberty Steel crisis latest: Sajeev Gupta puts more plants up for sale; Bank of England suspected Gupta’s bank in 2019; and Ian Carrotte says collapse is inevitable
Liberty Steel crisis latest: Sajeev Gupta puts more plants up for sale; Bank of England suspected Gupta’s bank in 2019; and Ian Carrotte says collapse is inevitable
Liberty Steel: ICSM ‘there are consequences when you default on an £18m bank loan’
Pic: BBC
Liberty Steel: ICSM ‘there are consequences when you default on an £18m bank loan’
April’s insolvencies, crypto currency collapse, inflation concerns, and Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop company could be struck off by Companies House
Gwyneth Paltrow publicity chot for Goop. Pic: Sky News
April’s insolvencies, crypto currency collapse, inflation concerns, and Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop company could be struck off by Companies House
Prawn sellers, business lenders and builders hit the rocks while a famous chain of shoe shops struggle
Prawn sellers, business lenders and builders hit the rocks while a famous chain of shoe shops struggle
Retail administrations pile up as Debenhams finally close their doors after 240 years as suppliers take millions in losses
Pic: Hertfordshire Mercury
Retail administrations pile up as Debenhams finally close their doors after 240 years as suppliers take millions in losses
The slow motion collapse of Sanjeev Gupta's Liberty Steel shows how it is always best to do business by the book
Pic: BBC
The slow motion collapse of Sanjeev Gupta's Liberty Steel shows how it is always best to do business by the book
The six year sting: how Boris Johnson’s County Court Judgement could have hit his credit record
The six year sting: how Boris Johnson’s County Court Judgement could hit his credit record
Printing industry news: pre-pack deal as A4 Laser Labels acquires CF Labels
Printing industry news: pre-pack deal as A4 Laser Labels acquires CF Labels
Finally a High Street fashion chain that has come through a CVA and survived - despite a legal battle with landlords
Finally a High Street fashion chain that has come through a CVA and survived - despite a legal battle with landlords
Printing industry takes another hit as Zanders Paper folds – plus news of more print industry firms in trouble
Printing industry takes another hit as Zanders Paper folds – plus news of more print industry firms in trouble
ICSM insolvency haulage news: from company collapses to the 'Brexit mess’ – and news of a new date for the CV Show
ICSM insolvency haulage news: from company collapses to the ’Brexit mess’ – and news of a new date for the CV Show
NCP Car Parks beg landlords to restructure rents to stave off collapse
NCP Car Parks beg landlords to restructure rents to stave off collapse
Total crap: a warning from history - how a company CEO can destroy their business with ill-chosen remarks – Gerald Ratner 30 years on
Total crap: a warning from history - how a company CEO can destroy their business with ill-chosen remarks – Gerald Ratner 30 years on
Victory for the 39 former postmasters as Judge quashes their convictions in multi-million pound scandal
Pic: PA and BBC
Victory for the 39 former postmasters as Judge quashes their convictions in multi-million pound scandal
As the European Super League collapses - the real truth about football as a business is it isn’t one
Pic: BBC
As the European Super League collapses - the real truth about football as a business is it isn’t one
Meat eaters wanted: as Covid-19 regulations ease there’s an alarming rise in voluntary liquidations among meat wholesalers
Meat eaters wanted: as Covid-19 regulations ease there’s an alarming rise in voluntary liquidations among meat wholesalers
Hauliers fear 'Armageddon of liquidations' as non-essential retailers begin to reopen (or not reopen)
Fear of an 'Armageddon of liquidations' as non-essential retailers begin to reopen (or not reopen)
ICSM Print Industry News: Trade Show Wars: Chris Davies confirms The Print Show WILL take place this September while Sign and Digital is delayed to 2022 as the battle for supremacy continues
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Chris Davies of The Print Show
ICSM Print Industry News: Trade Show Wars: Chris Davies confirms The Print Show WILL take place this September while Sign and Digital is delayed to 2022 as the battle for supremacy continues
With the death of fraudster Bernie Madoff a look back at a history of stock market scams from Charles Ponzi to Levi John Coyle
Charles Ponzi in custody
With the death of fraudster Bernie Madoff a look back at a history of stock market scams from Charles Ponzi to Levi John Coyle
Heady mix of Covid and Brexit
Heady mix of Covid and Brexit's impact on business means suppliers struggle as insolvencies rise (but the death of the Duke of Edinburgh has boosted the print industry with extra supplements)
The ex-PM, the businessman, the Chancellor and the failed financier: dodgy goings on over billion pound company crash
The ex-PM, the businessman, the Chancellor and the failed financier: dodgy goings on over billion pound company crash
Worried your client won't pay? Watch this video and learn how ICSM membership helps to prevent bad debts and late payers
Worried your client won't pay? Watch this video and learn how ICSM membership helps to prevent bad debts and late payers
ICSM's April 2021 Newsletter
ICSM's April 2021 Newsletter
The printing press that creates wine, VW's rebranding, the Summer of Dove and other April Fool’s jokes
The printing press that creates wine, VW's rebranding, the Summer of Dove and other April Fool’s jokes
Concerns mount for suppliers to the Eurostar as the under pressure train firm teeters on the brink of collapse
Concerns mount for suppliers to the Eurostar as the under pressure train firm teeters on the brink of collapse
A collapsing house of cards: Liberty Steel, Greensill Capital, Credit Suisse and GFG – a total mess that could leave creditors billions out of pocket
A collapsing house of cards: Liberty Steel, Greensill Capital, Credit Suisse and GFG – a total mess that could leave creditors billions out of pocket
Confessions of a print manager as ex Paperhat CEO Tim Peppiatt sparks a spat in Print Week
Tim Peppiatt Pic: Print Week
Confessions of a print manager as ex Paperhat CEO Tim Peppiatt sparks a spat in Print Week (because his creditors never forget his past)
As Wooha brewery stops bottling beer a look at the reasons behind insolvencies in the noble business of making beer
Pic: Best Beer Festivals
Two pints of your finest ale landlord and I'll pay you in two years time: why micro breweries are going bust
ICSM News: Various, legal and finance news, football betting firm collapses amid allegations of ‘21st century Ponzi scheme’
ICSM News: Various, legal and finance news - Minister for Gambling John Whittingdale demands answers from Gambling Commission after betting firm collapses with £58m of punters' cash
ICSM Hospitality News: Pubs take on the Government, ‘let us open when shops open in April’
Picture: BBC
ICSM Hospitality News: Pubs take on the Government, ‘let us open when shops open in April’
ICSM News: bonfire of the jobs as the High Street loses 250,000 workers in 12 months as 48 shops close every day
Picture: The Guardian
ICSM News: bonfire of the jobs as the High Street loses 250,000 workers in 12 months while ICSM warns of worse to come
ICSM March 2021 Newsletter with a complete list of who has gone bust sector by sector
ICSM's March 2021 Newsletter with a complete list of who has gone bust sector by sector
ICSM Printing and Allied Industries’ News: card company’s troubles; publisher hit by school text book cuts and print promotion show shifted to 2022
ICSM Printing and Allied Industries’ News: card company’s troubles; publisher hit by school text book cuts and print promotion show shifted to 2022
RED ALERT. Factoring failure - a factor in the threatened collapse of Liberty Steel
ICSM RED ALERT: factoring failure - a factor in the threatened collapse of Liberty Steel
COMMENT It’s time to address the elephant in the room: the Brexit trade deal
COMMENT It’s time to address the elephant in the room: the Brexit trade deal
Comment: The Budget: spend, spend, spend before the tax hikes take effect but by then Rishi Sunak will be PM and it will be someone else in Number 11 who takes the heat
Comment: The Budget: spend, spend, spend – before the tax hikes take effect – but by then Rishi Sunak will be PM and it will be someone else in Number 11 who takes the heat
Rishi Sunak’s ‘holding’ budget: furlough extension to September; hike in corporation tax; business rates holiday extended but long term recovery plan outlined
Rishi Sunak’s ‘holding’ budget: furlough extension to September; hike in corporation tax; business rates holiday extended - but no long term recovery plan outlined
The ghost of Polestar reappears as Peter Andreou returns to the industry - setting tongues wagging
The ghost of Polestar reappears as Peter Andreou returns to the industry - setting tongues wagging
The follies of factoring your accounts – how it can go horribly wrong - and telling fibs to the factoring agency will end badly
The follies of factoring your accounts – how it can go horribly wrong - and telling 'porkies' to the factoring agency will end in disaster
My story of clients that did not pay up forcing me to stop publishing a popular magazine - and how I would treat those clients differently now
Harry Mottram
My story of clients that didn't pay up forcing me to stop publishing a popular magazine - and how I would treat those clients differently now
We’ve got a road map out of the Covid-19 crisis but beware giving credit to firms planning to reopen
We’ve got a road map out of the Covid-19 crisis but beware giving credit to firms planning to reopen
Good and bad news for sales of magazines during the business destroying lockdowns due to Covid-19
Good and bad news for sales of magazines during the business destroying lockdowns due to Covid-19 with Slimming World down and BBC Good Food up
Gina Miller calls for an independent enquiry into failed fund manager Neil Woodford’s plans to start a new investment company (after the £3.7bn disaster last time)
Gina Miller calls for an independent enquiry into failed fund manager Neil Woodford’s plans to start a new investment company (after the £3.7bn disaster last time)
Making a monkey out of their customers: UK SMEs and sole traders lose out as Gibraltar based insurance company enters administration
Making a monkey out of their customers: UK SMEs and sole traders lose out as Gibraltar based insurance company enters administration
REVEALED: who has gone bust this year - key companies listed in our industry sector by industry sector - in an easy to read format from ICSM Credit
REVEALED: who has gone bust this year - key companies listed in our industry sector by industry sector - in an easy to read format from ICSM Credit
Keep Calm and contact ICSM Credit now to check your clients will not go bust when furlough ends
ICSM Credit Print Industry News: Question mark over The Print Show; Print Week lists dodgy goings on; how is the trade press doing; and listed: more printers go bust
ICSM Credit Print Industry News: Question mark over The Print Show; Print Week lists dodgy goings on; how is the trade press doing; and listed: more printers go bust
Pull up the credit drawbridge on late payers as thousands of firms begin to go bust as the dam bursts on the Covid Crisis
Pull up the credit drawbridge on late payers as thousands of firms begin to go bust as the dam bursts on the Covid Crisis
Domesday 2021: up to a million businesses to go bust when furloughing ends as ICSM Credit warns of the economy’s ‘ticking time bomb’
Domesday 2021: Up to a million businesses to go bust when furloughing ends as ICSM Credit warns of the economy’s ‘ticking time bomb’
A story of our times: retailer Boohoo acquires Debenhams brand and intellectual property rights in £55m deal (but not the stock, shops, staff or invoices from unpaid suppliers)
A story of our times: retailer Boohoo acquires Debenhams brand and intellectual property rights in £55m deal (but not the stock, shops, staff or invoices from unpaid suppliers)
The Big Short 2: how a us V them battle over GameStop’s shares reveals the risky world of shorting as explained in Adam McKay’s film
The Big Short 2: how a us V them battle over GameStop’s shares reveals the risky world of shorting as explained in Adam McKay’s film
The 2008 Credit Crunch explained in Adam McKay’s adrenalin filled tragic-black comedy movie The Big Short
Margot Robbie appears in a bath to explain financial matters
The 2008 Credit Crunch explained in Adam McKay’s adrenalin filled tragic-black comedy movie The Big Short shows how easy it is for fraudster bankers to bring an economy down – is it happening again with Covid-19 loans?
CREDIT INSIDER: don’t get sucked into giving credit to ailing retailers – as Arcadia announce closing 31 shops and Superdry wobble after massive losses
CREDIT INSIDER: don’t get sucked into giving credit to ailing retailers – as Arcadia announce closing 31 shops and Superdry wobble after massive losses
Thought it couldn’t get any worse? Experts predict INFLATION is set to return in 2021 along with higher interest rates
Thought it couldn’t get any worse? Experts predict INFLATION is set to return in 2021 along with higher interest rates
Print Industry News: wide format print operator bought out of administration; director gets lengthy ban; and Brexit red tape hits magazine
Print Industry News: wide format print operator bought out of administration; director gets lengthy ban; and Brexit red tape hits magazine
Anger at banks that ‘rip off struggling businesses’ during the shutdowns with 35% emergency loans
Anger at banks that ‘rip off struggling businesses’ during the shutdowns with 35% emergency loans
Film makers call on Government to help lockdown cinemas (as Hollywood delays blockbuster releases)
Signed the letter: Amma Asante MBE is a British filmmaker, screenwriter, former actress
Film makers call on Government to help lockdown cinemas (as Hollywood delays blockbuster releases)
ICSM Credit
ICSM Credit's Newsletter January 2021
Covid-19’s double dip recession on the way as winter lockdown costs our economy £390m a day - the first such downturn since 1975
Covid-19’s double dip recession on the way as winter lockdown costs our economy £390m a day - the first such downturn since 1975
BREAKING NEWS: Supreme Court backs small businesses in battle over coronavirus business interruption claims with insurance firms
BREAKING NEWS: Supreme Court backs small businesses in battle over coronavirus business interruption claims with insurance firms
Ruling expected TODAY for thousands of small businesses in Covid insurance case (after insurers refused to pay up)
Ruling expected TODAY for thousands of small businesses in Covid insurance case (after insurers refused to pay up)
Bonnie and Clyde of the printing industry escape latest attempt to nail them; Essentra set to shut some UK sites; Bradford firm goes bust and trouble at Royal Mail - ICSM Credit
Bonnie and Clyde of the printing industry escape latest attempt to nail them; Essentra set to shut some UK sites; Bradford firm goes bust and trouble at Royal Mail - ICSM Credit's latest print industry news
Kwasi Kwarteng goes in for the kill: business secretary takes ‘disgraced’ Carillion executives to court
Kwasi Kwarteng goes in for the kill: business secretary takes ‘disgraced’ Carillion executives to court
Alarm at collapsing firms (even on Christmas Day) as David Lloyd Leisure and GLL signal cashflow problems plus the publican who has borrowed £4m to stay afloat
Alarm at collapsing firms (even on Christmas Day) as David Lloyd Leisure and GLL signal cashflow problems - plus the publican who has borrowed £4m to stay afloat
A dream of two 1960s art students in creating a beautiful shop selling designer paper products could be about to die on the altar of Covid-19
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A dream of two 1960s art students in creating a beautiful shop selling designer paper products could be about to die on the altar of Covid-19
Up to three million self-employed and other workers
Pic: H&M
Up to three million self-employed and other workers 'don't qualify for any Government Lockdown Covid cash'
Lockdown the sequel: Ian Carrotte warns of mass unemployment and many business failures as industry groups round on the Chancellor
Lockdown the sequel: Ian Carrotte warns of mass unemployment as industry groups round on the Government for failing small businesses during the Covid-19 crisis
Sally Jones of Ernst Young of the Big Four insolvency outfits asks what does the Brexit deal actually mean for business?
Sally Jones of Ernst Young of the Big Four insolvency outfits asks what does the Brexit deal actually mean for business?
Brexit: the EU trade deal brokered at Christmas gives a relief to business but it means “freedom” comes with a cost
Brexit: the EU trade deal brokered at Christmas gives a relief to business but it means “freedom” comes with a cost
In praise of the printed catalogue – how online shopping and websites have edged out the ‘books of dreams’
