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Last updated 25 September 2026
Guides
Buyers want to know what your business earns, where it can grow and whether it can thrive without you. From clear accounts to dependable customers, discover five factors that shape your company’s sale price and how preparing early can strengthen your negotiating position.
Industry
Microsoft's studio closures are shocking headlines. But for those who've been watching the numbers, this moment was entirely predictable for the UK market.
16 Jun
2026
Industry
The Hovis deal looks like a triumph of consolidation. Plimsoll's data tells a different story — one of a sector fracturing along a fault line that is only getting wider.
16 Jun
2026
Guides
Most acquisition search processes fail in the same way: too many targets, too little filtering, and the wrong ones answer the phone. Plimsoll's 9-point Acquisition Score flips the process. Nine criteria, one tick each, ranking an entire industry by acquisition appeal in a single comparable number. Here's what each signal means and why it matters.
14 May
2026
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Carillion didn't fail overnight. Neither did Thomas Cook, Wilko or Bulb Energy. In every case, the warning signs were in the accounts two or three years before the headlines. Here are the eight financial signals the Plimsoll Model uses to flag corporate distress early,and how to read them in any set of accounts.
13 May
2026
News
The British economy isn't one story — it's hundreds. We screened 1600 UK industries by four-year sales growth and pulled out the ten making the biggest headlines in 2026. Five are booming, five are in serious trouble, and the contrast tells you exactly where money is moving right now.
12 May
2026
News
The latest Plimsoll analysis, drawn from five years of filed accounts at Companies House, rates 38% of British businesses as being in financial Danger, up from 34% the year before. Behind that single number is a more uncomfortable story: size is no longer a safety net. Among UK firms holding £50 million or more in assets, the Danger rate climbs to 41%. The companies most people assume are too big to fail are, in fact, over-represented among those closest to it.
11 May
2026
