Business Reporter

The government wants more firms to consider employee ownership – or at least to issue shares to staff. We really all could be in it together Seldom has employee ownership been so politically fashionable. The Tories want employee-led mutuals and co-ops to run public services; the Lib Dems have turned to the model in their [...]

Does linking reward to performance pay off? With strong opinions on both sides, the argument looks set to rumble on Anyone who thought the financial crisis might wobble the half-century old corporate love affair with performance-related pay might have to reconsider. In fact, with concerns about performance topping executive worry lists, firms are looking to [...]

The market in chief executives is smaller and much less global than is sometimes imagined Is there a global market for chief executives? Of all the justifications for escalating executive pay, this one has perhaps survived the financial crisis and related rewards-for-failure furore better than most. Its logic is simple. There is a global talent [...]

A move into data management and processing has kept one business ahead of the game It has been quite a journey for Leeds-based Communisis. The former general stationery printer has transformed itself in recent years into one of the leading “marketing services providers” – helping clients to improve the effectiveness of the whole process of [...]

Don’t believe all the tales of doom and gloom. Some areas of the printing industry are thriving – and it’s all about getting closer to the customer “Print understanding it not what it used to be,” says Martyn Eustace, the boss of PrintPower, a print industry campaign to boost the printed word in a “multi-channel [...]

You’ve found the perfect partner and they are ready to love you too, but only if the offer is good enough. It’s time to finance the deal The death of mergers and acquisitions financing has been greatly exaggerated. Media stories of the near impossibility of attracting large-scale sources of funding are wide of the mark, [...]