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UK BUDGET DEFICIT IS PINT-SIZED
29 June 2010: It would take the country’s total population to drink 14 pints of beer each day for a year to swallow the country’s deficit, according to an Institute for Turnaround economic model. For the working population, it would be about 30 pints a day, in round terms £90 per person per day or £32,000 per annum. Alternatively, that makes 62,405 Olympic-size swimming pools full of beer.
(29 June 2010)
RON SANDLER URGES REDUCED EXPECTATIONS OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
25 June 2010: Ron Sandler, IFT Honorary Fellow and Chairman of Northern Rock, delivered the annual lecture at the Institute for Turnaround last night, calling for more realistic expectations about the ability of Boards to prevent corporate failure...
(25 June 2010)
‘TV LEADERSHIP DEBATES DO NOT TELL VOTERS WHO SHOULD BE UK PLC MANAGEMENT’ SAY TOP COMPANY DOCTORS
95% of the UK’s top company doctors agree that televised debates are not a good way of assessing who should be elected to manage the UK. Asked whether the operating climate for businesses will be better or worse over the next 12 months, 95% said, “Worse.”
(26 April 2010)
COMMON SENSE ERUPTS AT INSTITUTE FOR TURNAROUND CONFERENCE
Eyjafjallajoekull’s excesses will not distract Britain’s top company doctors from the essential task of how best to turn around businesses. Although attendees have been unavoidably detained by volcanic disruption as far afield as Australia, Shanghai and St. Lucia the Institute for Turnaround (IFT) members are well used to getting burning platforms under control...
(21 April 2010)
‘DON’T WAIT FOR THE INSPECTOR TO CALL,’ SAYS INSTITUTE FOR TURNAROUND
Insolvency practitioners are to receive an £11m fee boost from new tax rules, according to Accountancy Age, on March 23; a statement that should seriously discomfit board directors nursing HM Revenue & Customs debts.
(12 April 2010)
BVCA NOMINATES THREE INSTITUTE FOR TURNAROUND® AWARD-WINNERS
The British Venture Capital Association (BVCA) has announced the shortlist for its 2010 awards. The awards include a category for ‘Turnaround House of the Year’. Three of those shortlisted, Endless, Kelso Place and Rutland Partners, are IFT award winners in Europe’s Top Turnarounds.
(25 March 2010)
FT FOLLOWS INSTITUTE FOR TURNAROUND® LEADERS
The Financial Times (FT) newspaper has announced the winners of its 2010 inaugural awards for mid-market companies. The awards include a category for ‘Turnaround of the Year’.
(17 March 2010)
WILKINSON SWORD IS THIS YEAR’S TOP INTERNATIONAL TURNAROUND; NORTHERN ROCK’S RON SANDLER HONOURED
John Sergeant presented Europe’s Top Turnaround Awards at the Institute for Turnaround’s Strictly Turnaround Awards 2009 on December 3rd. It is the eighth year of the IFT Awards and some 60 submissions in 10 categories reached the final judging. The independent judging panel includes Professor Michael Jacobides, London Business School and Jane Calvert-Lee, representing the CBI, together with turnaround experts.
(04 December 2009)
Institute for Turnaround: Qualified turnaround professionals needed to drive economic recovery
London, 10 September 2009 – The Institute for Turnaround (IFT), the UK’s professional body for turnaround practitioners, today announced its proposals to introduce a new policy framework for the IFT Turnaround Practising Certificate and Professional Licence in a move to make the role of the Turnaround Professional one that is formal, regulated and legally protected.
(09 September 2009)
SHEFFIELD FIRM HOSTS INAUGURAL TURNAROUND CONFERENCE
Sheffield accountants Grant Thornton are to launch the Institute for Turnaround (IFT) inaugural regional conference on Wednesday, 22nd April.
(09 March 2009)