BUSINESS RESCUE SERVICE – ONLINE!

Are Tory/Lib-Dem coalition policies - those of cut, cut cut regardless of the consequences - about to risk plunging the UK into what is known as a double-dip recession?

Gordon Brown warned the nation that too many cuts, too soon, would do just that and now the nation waits with bated breath to discover if he was right and the Tory-led coalition wrong or vice versa.

Either way, it’s not going to help small businesses from going ‘tits up’ and it won’t do the club trade any good either, bearing in mind all the problems affecting the licensed trade at present.

According to the Confederation of British Industry, 28 per cent of small business enterprises fear insolvency if the country lurches towards the double-dip nightmare. Fortunately - or unfortunately, depending on your perspective - there is now a web- site designed to make going into administration less of headache than it might have been without it.

Check out www.businessrescueservice.co.uk for information on all the horrible words and phrases you thought you’d never have to deal with: pre-pack administration; admin- istration order; sole trader insolvency; tax arrears; creditors; liquidation; and many oth- ers guaranteed to give you countless sleepless nights.

The site is not just there for those ‘going down’, it’s there for those with operationa difficulties or those requiring a general trading analysis so as to prevent bigger prob- ems further down the line. In other words, to use another well-worn, corporate, reces- sionary phrase, ‘it’s not all doom and gloom!’

Workers in field service followed by those in office and administrative support and sales were the most accidentprone group.

Lost productivity (63 per cent), loss of important company information (37 per cent) and lost or delayed sales (34 per cent) were all caused by damaged laptops.

IDC and Panasonic advised businesses to consider durability when choosing their laptops.

The Business Case for Ruggedized PCs is the title of a research document based on a survey of 300 US companies.