Warehouse Development Fuelled by eCommerce

7th February 2012By adminCommercial Insurance

Titan Warehouse Insurance believes that the warehouse market is continuing to grow and much of the growth is being driven by internet ecommerce companies which have swapped high street stores for storage and processing warehouses which have to cater for thousands of lines of stock. Many of the large ecommerce operations, such as Amazon and … Read More

Chips All Round!

7th February 2012By adminTakeaway Insurance

Titan Business Insurance welcomes news from UK chip manufacturer ARM Holdings that they have grown their profits by 40%. The company, says Titan, is based in Cambridge and primarily supplies mobile chips for the smart phone market. In the last three months of 2011, the company made pre-tax profits of $49.7 million, having shipped 2.2 … Read More

Big Ideas Are Just That, Big Ideas

1st February 2012By adminBusiness Insurance

Titan Construction Insurance is concerned that talk of big ideas which would boost the construction sector are all talk and no walk. Two of the biggest infra-structure projects on the cards look, realistically, unlikely to happen for at least ten years, which would be too late to help companies in this particular phase of the … Read More

Slowdown Austerity Measures

1st February 2012By adminBusiness Insurance

Titan Business Insurance calls for a slowdown in UK austerity measures as official figures that the UK economy shrank by 0.2% in the last quarter of 2011; 0.1% worse than many forecasters had predicted. This meant that growth in gross domestic product throughout last year was only 0.9%. Titan is concerned about the ferocity of … Read More

Some Bright News in Construction Sector

25th January 2012By adminConstruction Insurance

Titan Construction Insurance welcomes the news that the country’s second biggest house builder, Taylor Wimpey, has told the market that it expects a large rise in its operating profit for 2011. Titan says that Taylor Wimpey made an operating profit of £88.3 million in 2010 and the company has announced that it now expects a … Read More

Recession Looms

24th January 2012By adminCommercial Insurance

Titan Business Insurance is concerned that one of the UK’s foremost economic forecasters is saying that the country is already in recession. What makes the prediction worse says Titan, is that the Item Club, which is part of Ernst & Young, uses the same modelling techniques as the UK Treasury. So, their forecasting is usually … Read More

Government Needs to Boost Participation Levels

18th January 2012By adminBusiness Insurance

Titan Sports Club Insurance thinks that recent reports that the forthcoming Olympics is having no effect on sports participation is misplaced and argues that the full effect will not be felt until the games are underway and indeed, over. Titan believes that it’s only when the games are actually taking place, when the true inspiration … Read More

SMEs Still Need Cash

17th January 2012By adminCommercial Insurance

Titan Business Insurance is worried that SMEs are still being starved of cash in a system which remains fearful of lending money. What’s more, says Titan Business Insurance, the ‘locked down’ business environment is beginning to damage growth as businesses cannot afford to gear up to cope with the inevitable pent-up demand after so many … Read More

2012 Outlook

6th January 2012By adminCommercial Insurance

Titan Sports Club Insurance thinks 2012 will be a very demanding time for UK sports and organisations, as they cope with a difficult financial environment both in terms of participants and spectators. There is also the question of the UK becoming an increasingly litigious nation with people quick to resort to the law over injuries … Read More

Outlook for 2012

6th January 2012By adminBusiness Insurance

Titan Business Insurance looks forward to 2012 with the view that future prospects will be pinned firmly to a resolution of the eurozone crisis and world economic growth. Titan believes that businesses large and small will have to worry about the situation in Europe and hope that the respective leaders will be able to not … Read More