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Last year saw unprecedented macro geopolitical and economic uncertainty, rampant global inflation, a war in Ukraine and a humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. Further acceleration of deglobalisation and peaks in global [...]

THE RECESSION has led to a 'flight to quality' among middle-income customers who still have money to spend, according to Peter Traynor, Collette Worldwide UK general manager. Traynor said the [...]

ASK US A QUESTION Richard Brindley Executive director, RIBA Professional Services Patrick Perry Partner with London law firm Barlow Lyde & Gilbert Given the worsening economy and continued erosion of [...]

YES Maribel Mantecon Project architect, CZWG Yes, of course we are. Not least because we, and the media in general, keep talking about it - making it a self-fulfilling prophecy. [...]

Libya, Brazil and Egypt emerge as lucrative new markets as architects give up on Britain Elizabeth Hopkirk & David Rogers Fears the industry is now heading into a second recession [...]

With no signs that the recession's bite is about to significantly ease off, Anna Winston and David Rogers look at the effect of redundancy on architects who have lost their [...]

Attendance set to match last year's as property fair takes industry's pulse David Rogers Organisers are expecting next week's Mipim to attract 18,000 visitors and are pinning their hopes on [...]

AMANDA BAILLIEU All around the country sites are standing empty. Now it's time for developers to step up and find alternative uses for their land Developers like to pat themselves [...]

OWEN HATHERLEY The recession has left Dublin's half-hearted and half-finished new buildings open to reinterpretation The Republic of Ireland now has an unemployment rate of 12.5%, and the economy has [...]

KEN LIVINGSTONE Raising taxes and cutting public spending will not save us. Only investment can recover our ailing economy The fact that the three main parties are in a bidding [...]

Adrem enters administration as RIBA figures claim 15% unemployment David Rogers & Anna Winston Nervous architects were this week reminded of the volatility of the jobs market when a high-profile [...]

ED HOLLIS In a recession, someone with a track record of parting people from their cash has their uses Fred Goodwin, he once of the Royal Bank of Scotland, has [...]

Business consultants Reality Training have come up with some radical suggestions for how to run a company in a recession. Robin Searle reports Imagine a world where you don't set [...]

PAUL MORRELL The downturn is shaking up the natural order to architecture's benefit The revolving doors are spinning as high-profile figures depart from established architectural practices to start up elsewhere. [...]

Rupert Murray. THE RECESSION has helped to bring independent agents and smaller operators closer together, according to an operator who scooped three TTG Travel Awards. Caribtours managing director Paul Cleary [...]

Airlines that have suffered during the downturn could face a threat to their balance sheets during economic recovery, says Graham Pickett Oil prices that fell significantly during the recession have [...]

RIBA president speaks out over inequalities of the recession Elizabeth Hopkirk Women architects and students are the biggest victims of the recession, RIBA president Ruth Reed told her first council [...]

Manufacturers have called for a shake-up of drugs regulation amidst concerns the current recession could impact the medicines pipeline. Forty nine per cent of manufacturers believe the UK business environment [...]

Young pharmacists have been more affected than others by the recession, a support charity has suggested. The amount of financial assistance provided to those aged between 30 and 45 more [...]

Public finances will be 'highly stressed', reducing NHS funding in the coming months, England's chief pharmacist has warned. Speaking at BPC, Keith Ridge said the sector was approaching a 'significant [...]

WILL HURST The recession may technically be ending but practices - particularly the larger ones - will continue to feel the pain News this week that the recession may be [...]

It's been a strange week. The national media is reporting that the recession could be over, that things are picking up as employers and employees feel more confident about their [...]

With the downturn slashing corporate budgets, the business travel sector has taken a battering. Martin Ferguson looks at prospects for recovery The depth of the recession has changed the landscape [...]

'We just need to find those small things in an itinerary that help customers switch off - and shout about them' What's occurring? Small things are the new black, that's [...]

'Serious commentators were queuing up to assure us 2009 would be a bloodbath beyond our wildest nightmares' I am sick of all the bad news spin and general gloom. It [...]

More than 2,000 delegates, including some of Europe's most high-profile travel buyers, attended the inaugural Business Travel Market in London last week. Martin Ferguson reports BRITISH Airways' all-business-class subsidiary, Open [...]

Tesco pharmacy has defied the recession to report large increases in prescription business and service provision. The supermarket giant's pharmacy division had a 9 per cent increase in dispensing volumes [...]

Goodwill values plummet and pharmacy sales fall 30 per cent, say financial experts Zoe Smeaton The economic downturn has had a negative impact on sales and prices of pharmacy businesses, [...]

Irena Bauman tackles your ethical dilemmas How can I continue to practise architecture in the recession after being made redundant? Some years ago, I remember watching a television programme about [...]

Ruth Bloomfield Plans to streamline the planning process to help small firms weather the recession have been attacked for being 'too little, too late'. Critics, including the RIBA, are furious [...]

Visitor numbers slump by a third Will Henley The number of delegates heading to Mipim this year has plummeted by more than a third as architects, public bodies, agents and [...]

You haven't been to Dubai? Over the past few years, anyone who is anyone in the world of architecture has been to Dubai more often than the rest of us [...]

AMANDA BAILLIEU If a practice that prided itself on the global spread of its projects has to slash its workforce, can anyone be immune to the recession? What a difference [...]

One of the most charismatic and controversial figures in British architecture has announced his return to the profession with the launch of a new practice. In an extraordinary move given [...]

Can the results of the C+D Pharmacy Partners Finance Survey give us any clues to help cope with the recession? Fiona Salvage analyses the figures No matter how hard you [...]

Mixed reaction as president advocates green upgrades to housing Will Hurst RIBA president Sunand Prasad has unveiled a radical plan to boost architects' workload in a recession by calling for [...]

Norman Foster has vowed that a recession will not force Fosters & Partners to cut any of its 1,300 staff, despite the wave of UK job losses. Responding to a [...]

The spectre of redundancy is haunting community pharmacy for the first time in decades. Although job cuts appear to be hitting support staff hardest, there is also evidence that some [...]

ASK US A QUESTION Richard Brindley Executive director, RIBA Professional Services Patrick Perry Partner with London law firm Barlow Lyde & Gilbert I have just been made redundant and am [...]

Recessions are caused largely by a loss of confidence in the economy. The capitalist system is both crude and delicate, a spoilt brat of a way of determining our economic [...]

Hopes that the last week of January might see a surge in bookings have been dashed. Operators believed sales might increase substantially once consumers received their first pay cheques since [...]

A 'MAGICAL' time was had by all when the CFA hosted our annual dinner dance in June at the imposing Palace Hotel, in the beautiful Derbyshire Spa town of Buxton. [...]

WHO would think that in the height of a recess ion, when costs are critical, business scarce and hard fought for that any government, of any political persuasion would increase [...]

Distributors are used to fighting hard for their business as many sell the same products with only the largest being able to invest in exclusive lines. Mary Murrell reports: IN [...]

WE are well into the 2010-2011 CFA membership year now and I am glad to say we are ahead of targets. Renewals this year pretty much met expectations with a [...]

Construction is deeper in recession that previously thought, according to new Office for National Statistics. Revised data showed that the industry contracted by 1.6% in the first three months of [...]

WHAT a difference a year makes! As I write this, we're a few days post election and things are still pretty much up in the air. But, compared to last [...]

The construction industry declined by 0.7% in the first quarter of 2010, officially returning to recession after seeing two quarters of negative growth, according to the Office for National Statistics. [...]

IOSH was recently involved in setting up a round-table debate with a number of the UK's key health and safety influencers and policy-makers to discuss future challenges, sensible versus populist [...]

Six out of 10 people in Europe think the economic downturn is adversely affecting health and safety conditions in the workplace, but British and Irish citizens are more optimistic on [...]