Sunday, January 18, 2009

New year crunchy bits

Some Florida dealers are offering 2 trucks for the price of one

Almost 2000 partners in London's 100 leading law firms could lose their jobs this year

The Treasury has given nearly £6million to fund more advisers on the National Debtline

Wayne Rooney gave a boost to the car industry by buying Coleen a Bentley for Christmas

Cattles, a UK sub-prime lender, is in trouble

"Bernard Madoff has become the poster boy for what will become a substantial global legal industry" - Edward Fennell, The Times

Sales of Sainsbury’s stewing lamb have trebled

Staff at a famous cosmetics surgery clinic had not been paid since before Christmas

There is a new Celtic Tiger. Dell is shifting its European manufacturing from Limerick to Poland. There were more stock market flotations in Warsaw than in London in 2008

A private equity firm has conceded that it was a mistake to spend £360 million buying an estate agents just before the credit crunch hit

Law firms take an average of 4 months to collect unpaid bills owing to themselves. If banks are now reluctant to provide overdraft cover, the partners will have to finance the shortfall

The Chinese government has told domestic airlines not to accept delivery of any new aircraft this year – this could mean cancelling ¼ of the world’s total deliveries

The number of people travelling by Eurostar to London from Paris & Brussels went up by 15% in December as Christmas shoppers took advantage of the falling pound

It is no longer worth stealing the lead from a church roof

More graduate jobs will be on offer in Aldi & Sainsbury this year

The last television factory in Britain will close next month