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Are We Still In A Crisis?
Friday, August 7th, 2009We hear some improvements today about our economy. Some businesses become stable and still holding on in spite of the recession we are currently having. With the rising unemployment and with the ongoing problem of personal indebtedness, there have shown a lot of signs of stress in the retail and the financial sectors. We are still in doubt of the economy today especially for some other business owners as they are greatly affected by this.
The Focus DIY Company, a privately owned chain of DIY stores in the UK, gave negative thinkers more reason to be gloomy just after they had gone on a vital restructuring to stave off their collapse. The Focus DIY Company, a private-equity-owned chain, is burdened by £160m of debt sought court approval today for a company voluntary arrangement or CVA. CVA is like a liquidation process that will enable it to exit the leases on 38 empty stores thus saving it to £12m a year. Because of this, many of their store’s employees would be unemployed. The reason they had to get rid of the stores is because the company would “run out of cash” as Chief executive Bill Grimsey stated. The company is also asking the owners of its remaining 180 stores to accept monthly instead of quarterly rental payments up until the month of March 2011.
HBOS and GMAC, the banks of Focus DIY, will only restore the retailer’s £50m loans if the Company Voluntary Arrangement is approved by their landlords. If this one fails, the company is likely to fall into management because currently, the company’s debt holders are already waiving interest payments. In view to this, Chief executive Bill Grimsey stated, “we cannot renew our banking facilities at the current level of profitability for the company to remain viable we have to confront this issue. I am very confident our landlords will accept.” Having this been said, the company is trying to keep themselves positive as they can be. They will recover themselves in their situation as long as they stay confident in what they would do. And regarding unemployment, another problem that we encounter, is really expected to increase. We see other companies who have not make it and become bankrupt, that is why unemployment is fast increasing worldwide.
According to the Federation of Small Businesses that their members are encountering an exceptional pressure from their lenders to pay higher interest rates or reduce their debt. It worries the delicate finances of the UK’s banks and their near-monopoly management of would kill off any uncertain revival of companies.
So on for the final thoughts of this occurring globally, some of the businesses are repaying their debt at most in a record level. This only covers the fact that they are badly affected by the financial crisis for an extension of credit facilities.
We are still greatly affected by the financial crisis despite some good economic news we see on T.V. We may not be affected by this but still, we should remain cautious with regards in our finances.