Credit and Finance
Eddie Pacey's credit casebook: Playing the long game
Veteran credit management expert Eddie Pacey recalls a case from the 1990s when he helped out a stricken system builder
Leeds reseller LDD Group enters administration
Buyer being sought to secure £8m-revenue IT, comms and managed print supplier's long-term future
Further Maplin redundancies as search for buyer continues
Another 66 roles go as struggles continue for the electricals retailer after it went bust last month
Maplin goes bust, with gadget price spikes partly blamed
PwC will trade the business as normal while it seeks a buyer
Tech Data boosts funding for SME resellers
Distributor trebles credit available to SMB partners to £1m
Avaya CEO rings NYSE bell as vendor floats
Comms vendor goes public a year after slipping into Chapter 11
Is the era of cheap credit insurance over?
The environment for cheap credit insurance premiums appears to be nearing its end, according to Rycroft Associates' Mike Stott
VAR gets £2m funding boost for Northern expansion plans
Reseller snares largest ever single investment from Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund
Murray courts tech market with start-up investments
Tennis star and former Wimbledon champion Andy Murray funds UK tech firms in latest portfolio expansion
Welsh public sector supplier Millennium closes doors after 31 years
IT and AV reseller understood to have called in administrators yesterday
Eddie Pacey's credit casebook: Know your customer
Credit veteran Eddie Pacey recalls how his efforts to get under the skin of one small reseller led him to visit a dairy in Leeds
UK business insolvencies on the rise again, thanks partly to Brexit, trade body warns
Post-referendum inflation and weaker pound have hurt businesses' bottom lines, R3 says as data shows prolonged fall in company failures appears to have reversed
Misco UK goes bust
CEO Alan Cantwell tells CRN that entering the firm into administration was the only option after HMRC turned the screw on the firm and a last-ditch attempt to sell key assets to PCM came to nothing
Funding flows for UK tech landscape
Venture capital funding fuelling IT industry development
UK leading fight against uprising of 'zombie firms'
UK's insolvency regime the least hospitable for productivity-sapping 'zombie' firms, OECD report finds
Eddie Pacey's credit casebook: When a loss can be a win
Credit veteran Eddie Pacey recalls the time one of his system builder clients went bust
'I'm not an old-fashioned debt collector': Credit veteran Nick Tiltman returns to Tech Data
New appointment signals 'bold' credit strategy for distributor
Four key takeaways from Tech Data's Q2 results
The distributor's shares fell 19 per cent last night following the release of its Q2 results. We've pored over the numbers to round up what you need to know
UKFast CEO Lawrence Jones says door is open to Datacentred staff
Tech entrepreneur rules out rescue of fellow Mancunian cloud services provider, which hit the buffers earlier this week, but says he would take on impacted staff tomorrow if they needed a home
Open Stack cloud provider DataCentred hits the wall
15 staff kept on as buyer sought for Media City-based cloud services provider
CSI says several suitors were circling ahead of MML deal
£50m-revenue IBM and SAP partner says its managed services transition has made it an attractive target as it takes on more investment
Eddie Pacey's credit casebook
The former distribution credit boss explains how resellers can often avoid formal insolvency proceedings if they communicate with their distribution partners
Computacenter CEO reveals why he is mulling an 'eight-figure' US acquisition
'I'd be a liar if I said we're not investigating anything', Mike Norris tells CRN
A time of reflection
Credit management veteran Eddie Pacey predicts that the current IT distribution model is unlikely to exist in 15 years' time
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