Private Business November 2010: hot topics for private companies

How will the Spending Review affect your private business? We explain in our November issue of Private Business magazine how the Chancellor’s cuts to public spending will, ultimately, hit private enterprise.

Family businesses have weathered the recession better than some enterprises, and we’ve explored the reasons behind this following the results of our second Global Family Business survey . Read the UK Family Business survey.

Two front-runners are ready access to finance and a more long-term perspective, which have certainly helped family-run companies to strengthen their foundations.

In this edition we also speak to two business leaders with particular experience of the importance of family within business - Rupert Heseltine, Chairman of Haymarket Media, and John Gregory, CEO of Gregory Distribution.

And we introduce the forthcoming Private Business Awards for 2011 - your chance to show us why your business is the best in its class.

We all know that the current tax system is complicated. So John Whiting, former PwC partner, writes to explain his role at the newly created Office of Tax Simplification.

This edition rounds off with our regular Bits at the back where we update you on the hot topics that really matter.

Alternatively, you can now choose to download a separate audio version or PDF of each article, which we hope will make it even easier to keep up to date with the private business issues that matter to you.

Contents:

Editorial

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Ruby Parmar, Senior partner in PwC's Private Business Practice, introduces this edition.

Autumn Spending Review

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This autumn’s comprehensive Spending Review was one of the most significant public finance events for decades. What does it mean for your business?

Family businesses

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How are family businesses performing after the difficulties of the downturn?

Gregory Distribution

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Interview with John Gregory, CEO of Gregory Distribution, (Award winner - PwC West of England Business of the Year).

Tax simplification

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Newly-appointed tax director of the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS), and former PwC partner, John Whiting outlines how and why the OTS has been set up.

Private Business Awards 2011

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Ruby Parmar, partner in PwC’s entrepreneurial and private client team and editor of Private Business magazine, outlines the new Private Business Awards for 2011.