Titan Warehouse Insurance is warning all warehouses to check that their insurance is up to date and covers all the necessary risks. Titan Warehouse Insurance says that a number of warehouse fires and incidents have occurred recently which further demonstrate the vulnerability of warehouses to naturally occurring problems and also ones based on criminal intent, … Read More
Bank Results Worry SMEs
Titan Business Insurance reports that the poor results being reported by the banks are worrying many SMEs who are struggling to survive in very difficult times. Titan Business Insurance says that the recent results by the Royal Bank of Scotland, which showed a loss of £2 billion compared with £1 billion, is particularly worrying for … Read More
Engineering Personnel Brain Drain
Titan Engineer Insurance worries that skilled engineering workers are adding to a sector brain drain as more people seek jobs in emerging economies and thinks that the long term effect could be a delay in the recovery. Titan Engineer Insurance says that many engineering projects rely on highly skilled personnel which once gone overseas, can … Read More
Bank of England Signals Better Times
Titan Business Insurance is pleased to hear the mood music coming from the Bank of England has changed and that there are now some upbeat notes and not just funereal sombre tones, but still worries that SMEs will not feel the benefit quickly enough and that this will stifle any sense of a recovery. Titan … Read More
Airbus A380 Highlights Manufacturer’s Responsibilities
Titan Manufacturer Insurance highlights the case of Airbus maker having to carry out checks on the wings of its superjumbo aircraft the A380 as evidence of a manufacturer’s continuing commitment to its products long after it has left the factory Titan says that the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has ordered Airbus to carry out … Read More
Bank Lending Reducing
Titan Business Insurance is concerned that bank lending to SMEs has continued to dry up as institutions protect their balance sheets in worsening economic conditions. And Titan believes that there are some signs of recovery in the US, thepoor sentiment brought on by the slow death of the eurozone is making UK and mainland banks … Read More
Warehouse Development Fuelled by eCommerce
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!
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
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
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
