93 Quotes by Howard Archer

We suspect economic activity over much of 2006 will be held back by sluggish consumer spending and that the Bank of England's growth forecast will prove to be too optimistic.

Going forward, UK exporters will be fervently hoping that recent signs of improving growth in Western Europe will be sustained and will increasingly feed through to boost exports,

It appears that strong competitive pressures on the high street and through the supply chain are continuing to contain any second round inflationary effects of high oil and energy prices.

It appears that significant discounting is still needed to boost sales volumes.

Our Sunday lunches have been an excellent flagship because that is often many people's first experience of our menus.

Overall, the mortgage approvals and lending data indicate that the more robust housing market activity evident in the second half of 2005 has continued into 2006.

Robust service sector activity in February makes it even more of a cast-iron certainty that the Bank of England will keep interest rates unchanged next Thursday.

Relatively subdued consumer spending, intense domestic and international competition, and high input costs continue to dampen ... the sector.

It currently seems a pretty safe bet that interest rates will not change for several more months to come, if at all this year.