Quarterly rent 'could push firms into insolvency'
– Julie Palmer, Begbies TraynorWith quarterly rent day landing on December 25 combined with fierce competition and significant margin pressure throughout the January sales period as consumer tighten their belts after Christmas, we could well see a surge of new insolvency activity during the first quarter of 2013.
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