Pardon the pun, but the new year is a great time take stock; to reflect on what went well, what could have gone better and make strides towards improving performance over the course of the next twelve months. Challenging times for mainstream retailers This is certainly true for many retail businesses across the country, with […]

As a retailer you’ll know that the run up to Christmas is a vital time for your business; Black Friday (which will fall on November 23rd of this year) is now the biggest single day for online spending not only in the UK but across the world and the months of November and December still […]

If you’re a retail business and offer items for seasonal sale at discounted prices then you’re definitely not alone; while Christmas sales used to commence on Boxing Day they now span all the way to November, with hard-earned consumer cash spent on days such as ‘Black Friday’ having soared from £400 billion in 2003 to […]

Providing an accurate and quality service for our clients has always been at the heart of everything we do at Abacus Valuers and we believe it’s one of the key reasons that so many of them continue to work with us for years and sometimes even decades! But we know what you’re thinking; every business […]

If you’re currently looking for a stocktaker it can be easy to think that we’re all the same and it’s just figures on a computer screen or dashes on a clipboard. The reality couldn’t be more different and the implications of getting it wrong can have a significant impact on your bottom line.  So what […]

As a business it can be easy to think of a stocktake as a one-off event; something that happens sporadically or perhaps once a year. In reality it’s vitally important for you to always have a handle on your current stock levels. Once you have this knowledge and understanding it can come with any number […]