by Jonathan Fine | Dec 12, 2018 | Business growth, Treatment modalities
There are 11m people living with hearing loss in the UK and that’s going to rise to 15.6m by 2035. I bet you can guess what I’m going to say next. Two words: growth market. And seven more: that dental practices are primed to service. Why is this a growth market? On...
by Jonathan Fine | Dec 12, 2018 | Business growth, Ireland, Treatment modalities
The HSE estimates that 17% of the population has some sort of hearing loss, which equates to more than 800,000 people. But that number is going to rise dramatically because of two phenomena: Ireland’s population has been getting steadily older since the 1980s. In the...
by Zac Fine | Dec 5, 2018 | Business growth, Dental practice software, IT, Movers and shakers, Orthodontics
One of the fastest growth markets in dentistry is orthodontics, and for good reason: an apparently insatiable demand among adults for straight teeth on top of steady demand among children and teens. Adults have to go private, there’s no other option in England and...
by Zac Fine | Nov 28, 2018 | Acquisitions, Disposals, Due diligence, Exit plan, Movers and shakers, NHS, Recruitment, Site finding, Wealth management
Market research is invaluable when you are thinking about buying or selling a practice. Specialist business property adviser Christie & Co has produced a document called The Dental Industry 2018: Staffing, Brexit and The Dentist Shortage. We thought there was an...
by Zac Fine | Nov 16, 2018 | Business growth, Communications, Costs, Leadership, Movers and shakers, Online marketing
As another two cabinet ministers quit yesterday, including the second Brexit secretary, we came across this story about the epicentre of the crisis: the Irish border. Everything’s cheaper in Northern Ireland and many items are half price, which is why people drive...