Whenever you take out a loan, it is very important that you consider that the structure you decide best suits your individual situation and financial goals. There are many options to consider – interest only vs principal and interest, loan terms, fixed vs variable, security offered etc – it can be quite a minefield! Whilst
High purchase prices and current bank lending policies mean that often the only way a young pharmacist can gain an ownership interest in a pharmacy is by buying into a partnership or a company that operates a pharmacy. Although partnerships have long been the staple entity through which pharmacy business have been conducted, today it
Buying your first pharmacy and arranging finance is not that different to buying your first house. They are both major purchases in your life and it pays to research and plan. Surrounding yourself with professionals will stack the odds in your favour for a profitable outcome that will set you up for success.
The completion of a succession plan rests firmly with the seller’s ability and willingness to introduce a partner and the buyer’s ability to enter ownership in a profitable business with empathy for the seller and patience for implementing change. Matching the expectations of both the buyer and seller in a succession transaction can be tricky.
I have recently been involved in a number of lease negotiations involving shopping centre landlords and I have noticed a significant change in the way that these landlords are now conducting negotiations with their pharmacy tenants.
Converging influences arrived in 2011 to create the “Perfect Storm” in the pharmacy industry with dire consequences for a number of pharmacy owners. For the first time in our experience there are a relatively large number of pharmacies currently in the hands of administrators. Every day it seems another story of a pharmacy in difficultly
Employers should be aware that unfair dismissal applications are able to be commenced more easily under the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (‘the Act’). The 100 employee exception under the WorkChoices regime was abolished when the unfair dismissal provisions of the Act came into operation on 1 July 2009.
The release this week of the much anticipated changes to the Pharmacy Location Rules has ended speculation circulating in the marketplace that long re-locations would go. To utilise the existing long distance relocation rules (rule 106), pharmacists will require a leasing commitment on a premises arranged prior to 18th October 2011 and need to complete
Pharmacy Solutions is currently engaged in selling about 30% more pharmacies than we would normally anticipate at this time of the year. We believe this increase is due to the culmination of a number of factors, including; the slowdown in business sales in the previous 18 months now catching up, the poor economic environment and
Over the last few years Ferrier Hodgson has been engaged by a number of financiers and pharmacists to conduct business reviews, provide business health checks and make recommendations on the options available to them, when their relationship is no longer in the “honeymoon phase”.