@Risk

How would you rate your company’s business continuity plans? Do you feel confident that your organization could adequately respond to threats to its operations, people and supply chains?

According to the 2010 Business Continuity Benchmark Report recently published by Marsh, many European firms would answer those questions with a healthy dose of overconfidence, leaving them highly vulnerable to physical disruption and economic conditions. (more…)

In what has been heralded as “one of the most comprehensive risk management research studies in the European retail and consumer brands sector since the financial crisis began,” Marsh, the world’s leading insurance broker and risk advisor, found that the recession has significantly increased risk awareness across the industry.

Specifically, senior executives at Europe’s leading retail and consumer brands businesses say that over the next 18 months, they will be concerned with risks associated with cash flow, their supply chains, and trade credit.

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