Saturday 27 March 2010

Business News for 27 March 2010

Here is this week's financial news from BigFish Media Voiceover Artist Sasha Twining:

PRICE OF A PINT
Cider drinkers will be crying into their pints this weekend. The chancellor raised duty substantially on a pint in the budget. The Wurzels released a statement saying they’d have to tighten the string on their trousers.
At least first time buyers could celebrate with the money they can now save on stamp duty.

OUT FROM UNDER THE MATTRESS
Staying with the budget, and there was some rare good news for savers.
The ISA limit will now increase in line with inflation.
If you’re lucky enough to have the cash to hand, experts reckon the change equates to an extra 1000 pound allowance over the next five years.

FREE PRESS?
Big changes in the newspaper world this week. News International has announced plans to charge for online content from both The Times and The Sunday Times.
Meanwhile there are rumours circulating that the new owner of The Independent, might be considering distributing it for free.

EXTRA SALAMI
We’re loving our cheesy toppings. Figures released this week from Papa Johns show a 10 percent increase in pizza sales so far this year. They’re putting it down to families saving money and staying in. The January snow didn’t seem to dent deliveries either – the company say their drivers ‘went the extra mile’ to make sure we all got our spicy sausage.

EXPENSIVE TREND
A lesson this week in catching a wave at the right time, AND knowing when to jump off.
In 2005 we were all logging onto Friends Reunited to catch up on old classmates, and ITV bought the website for 175 million pounds.
Five years later, and we’ve all ‘cyber-stalking’ or rather ‘social-networking’ on Facebook instead, and ITV have finally off-loaded it at an eyewatering loss of 150 million pounds.

Many of our voiceover artists have a second string to their bow.

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