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Podcast: Kerre Woodham Mornings Podcast
Episode: Damien Grant: Waterstone Insolvency Principal on the sharp rise in the number of insolvency
Description: Many businesses that limped through the pandemic are now going under. Insolvency practitioners have been reporting a sharp rise in the number of insolvencies since mid-2022. Smaller retail, hospitality, construction, transport and manufacturing operators are failing far more now than they were before the pandemic. Waterstone Insolvency Principal Damien Grant told Kerre Woodham a lot of businesses are subject to economic winds, which are outside of their control.  He says we as a country are getting poorer, which means disposable income and things like hospitality are dropping, which is why you see...