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650,000 UK Businesses Facing Significant Financial Distress

The latest Red Flag Alert research for Q2 2021 has recorded 650,000 businesses in ‘significant financial distress’ – the second highest distress level ever recorded by this research.

2021 Football Distress Report (Scotland)

The annual Football Distress Survey, conducted by business recovery specialist Begbies Traynor since 2012, has revealed a deceptively rosy picture of football club health, skewed by a number of Covid related factors that cloak an undercurrent of rising de

2021 Football Distress Report (England)

The annual Football Distress Survey, conducted by business recovery specialist Begbies Traynor since 2012, has revealed a deceptively rosy picture of football club health, skewed by a number of Covidrelated factors that cloak an undercurrent of rising deb

Highest quarterly leap recorded by Red Flag Alert as almost 100,000 additional businesses drop into significant financial distress in Q1 2021

The latest Red Flag Alert research for Q1 2021 has recorded 723,000 businesses in ‘significant financial distress1’ after the largest numerical quarterly leap (93,000) recorded in the research since its new version was launched in 2014. This 15% increase

630,000 UK businesses now in significant financial distress as new lockdown comes into effect

The latest Red Flag Alert research for Q4 2020 has recorded 630,000 businesses in ‘significant distress1’ after the largest numerical quarterly leap (73,000) in financially distressed companies since Q2 2017. This 13% increase (from 557,000 in Q3 2020) co

Retail And Hospitality Braces For A Bleak Winter As Covid-19 Takes Its Toll

In the run-up to Christmas, new data from leading insolvency firm, Begbies Traynor, has revealed the full impact of the Covid-19 crisis and tough trading conditions, which shows that nearly 40,000 (39,232) retailers

557,000 UK businesses now in significant distress as numbers soar

The latest Red Flag Alert research for Q3 2020 has recorded 557,000 businesses in ‘significant distress1’ after the largest quarterly leap in financially distressed companies since 2017.

Financial pressures bite for dental practices as revenues fall and costs escalate due to Covid

The Begbies Traynor Red Flag Alert has found that 16 per cent of UK dental practices are feeling financial pressures as they face the latest round of restrictions from the government after only recently starting to reopen.

Seven consecutive quarters of rising financial distress leaves 527,000 UK businesses in a precarious position

The latest Red Flag Alert research for Q2 2020 has recorded seven consecutive quarters of increased financial impairment resulting in a record 527,000 businesses in significant* financial distress at the end of June 2020

Just a handful of British clubs in peril before the shutdown but majority of clubs now face unprecedented financial distress in wake of coronavirus pandemic

Football club finances were continuing to grow in stability by March this year

Scottish football clubs pushed to ‘brink of insolvency’ by coronavirus crisis despite good management and prior health

Scottish football club finances had gained unprecedented stability by the end of March this year

Coronavirus pushes financially distressed companies over the half-million mark

Number of businesses in significant distress stands at 509,000 – the highest number measured by the Red Flag Alert research

Almost half a million businesses in significant financial distress

New research from Begbies Traynor, the UK’s leading independent insolvency firm, reveals the number of businesses in significant1 financial distress has risen to 494,000

Retailers feel a chill as 27,000 in financial distress

In the final days before Christmas, the number of retailers facing significant financial distress has increased to nearly 27,000 during Q4 2019

489,000 businesses in significant financial distress – a 40% increase since the EU referendum

New research from Begbies Traynor, the UK’s leading independent insolvency firm, reveals that numbers of businesses in significant1 financial distress has increased 40% in the three years since the EU referendum, affecting 489,000 UK businesses with the real estate and property, construction, retail and travel sectors the most severely affected.

484,000 businesses in significant distress as consumer facing sectors falter

New research from Begbies Traynor, the UK’s leading independent insolvency firm, reveals there are now 484,000 UK businesses in significant financial distress with the property, leisure and tourism sectors particularly badly affected.