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Consumers were paying almost 30% more for a loaf of bread at the end of 2022 than they had been at the beginning of the year. The price, however, doesn’t even begin to reflect the soaring costs faced by bakeries, a sector heading for a wave of insolvencies. As an...

Napoleon would struggle to call England a nation of shopkeepers these days, if the relentless woe in the retail sector is an indication of things to come. The Centre for Retail Research isn’t hopeful. It expects up to another 18,000 UK shops to close this year –...

Merry Christmas and a very happy and prosperous New Year from all of us at Buchler Phillips! There is no better time than the Festive Season to express our appreciation and gratitude for your business and friendship. Thank you for choosing to work with us. This year...

December is, sadly, often marked by widespread redundancies as businesses steady themselves for the new year ahead. Managers hope to reduce costs, the most desperate cutting beyond fat and into bone to ensure the survival of their enterprises. This year’s final-month...

Supply chain experts are presently very excited about the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve returns for businesses involved in the transporting, ordering, stocking and selling of goods. At the same time, the world road transport organisation, the...

The UK’s technology sector has been flagged by the government as pivotal to sustainable economic recovery, post-Brexit and post-Pandemic. Following an additional crisis in external perception of the world’s fifth largest economy, now overtaken by Germany, it is...

CREDIBILITY RESTORED, BUT HAS IT BEEN AT THE EXPENSE OF INVESTOR AND CONSUMER CONFIDENCE IN THE UK ECONOMY? It seems scarcely believable that a mere fifty-five days separated Thursday's Autumn Statement from its predecessor, the now notorious Truss/Kwarteng mini...

This week sees a Crypto Leaders Symposium in London. It won’t just be a gathering of youthful fintech entrepreneurs in shorts playing video games during others’ speeches; it’s a serious, two-day summit of senior bank executives, lawyers, regulators and traditional...

Unique and highly profitable British business suffers an intended consequence of sanctions against Russia David Buchler and Jo Milner of Buchler Phillips Limited were appointed Joint Administrators of [CargoLogicAir, Ltd. (CLA)] (“the Company”) on 16 November 2022....

Acting like the Roman Emperor in the arena of old, Sir Nicholas Serota, the Chairman of the Arts Council, gave his verdict on the Arts Council grants for the next three years.  For the ENO it was a thumbs down and thus the Arts Council have signed the death warrant...

Too often, business relationships or transactions can be a zero-sum game: one party’s gain is equivalent to another party’s loss. It can so easily go that way in commercial property, from large offices to small high street shops; but concerns about inflation and...

We are proud to have our article featured in Italy's leading journal for the corporate recovery and reconstruction profession, “Osservatorio Internazionale Crisi d’Impresa”. The journal has been published in October 2022 and circulated among Italian Chartered...