Credit Crunch

The end of the beginning or the beginning of the end? After many months of rising concern in the financial markets, five dramatic days in mid September saw the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the forced sale of Merrill Lynch, the near implosion of AIG in the US and the tumbling of the UK’s largest home loan lender, HBoS, into the arms of a rival for a fraction of its former value.

But what is going to happen next and what are the prospects in this new world for companies in the retail and construction sectors? Who will deploy the successful strategies to survive and grow and who will lose ground and even disappear altogether? That is the focus of this report. It brings together the wealth of business intelligence and expertise within Emap to cast light on the future of the retail and construction sectors.

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