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    Excel help needed

    Thanks Midget Man, the Office addin did the trick perfectly
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    Excel help needed

    Hi all, I'm really hoping somebody can help me and save me hours of work... I have 2 excel spread sheets with similar data. Spread sheet 1 has a full list of data of about 15000 lines, spreadsheet 2 has most of the data but a few hundred lines missing. Is there an easy way to compare sheet 2...
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    Our Website

    Hi All, I'm hoping someone here can help us out a little. We created our website recently ourselves on MS Publisher, but there's a couple of things that look a bit wierd, firstly if we type in our name on google, our website comes up without the www. bit at the beginning (type in KK hardware...
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    What profit do wholesalers make on average?

    As Tom Suggests, it varies on the availability of the or 'nicheness' of the product, how competitive our price is on the market and a myriad of other factors. On items that are commonly found on the market or we're not competitve on we mark up 33%. On Nice products or ones we've got a good...
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    Selling in the EU

    Part of the problem was actually finding our target customers on google but the suggestion of Kompass on the previous post has been very helpful and opened up quite a few leads
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    is this a good price

    I'd say that's an amazing price as I just paid £70 for 1000 colour on 350gsm!
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    Getting the best out of suppliers

    Thanks David, Looks like an interesting group and having looked at their member list these are the types of merchants that we want to be in company with
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    Selling in the EU

    Hi All, I'm the owner of a DIY Wholesaler in the UK and 99% of our business is done in this country whoever after doing a bit of research I have seen an opportunity to sell one of our biggest selling products in mainland europe. The item is easily available all across europe but the price that...
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    Getting the best out of suppliers

    Hi all, I was wondering if the good people on this forum could help or at least pass on words of wisdom... I, along with 2 other people have taken over a Builder's merchants/ wholesaler. Ideally we see our selves as a wholesaler looking to get their stock from manufacturers and sell to...
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    Google's free website for business

    Hi, just wondering if anyone has used Google/BT's free website? We're a new business looking to establish a web presence and just looking for a basic website at the moment so we can get underway and expand it later. Has anyone used to Google one and did you get an email account with it? If...
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    Dividends

    Thanks Jenni
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    Dividends

    Hello all, I have a quick question regarding payment of dividends. I understand that they can only be paid out of post tax profits, but can they also be paid out of retained profits from previous years? example starting with £0 Year 1: Net profit £100k of which 10k paid out as dividend...
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    Wages and cash flow

    Having just googled these and not fully getting my head round it all, I'll be sure to bring this up with the other parties and the accountant. Many thanks for the heads up.
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    Wages and cash flow

    crikey what are the other potential pitfalls...?
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    Wages and cash flow

    Yeah we're buying the property through the limited company , the third partner is also an already existing ltd company therefore I presume we can't go LLP Essentially the set up is this: we're buying assets from an existing company, the assets are a freehold property, stock, fixtures and...
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