Which industries will thrive in the next few years?

[paulpsz008]

As the title says.
Following some good (and many bad) reports in the "chaps how's business?" thread.
And considering all the "recession" talk in press.

Which industries do you think will thrive over the next few years?

Edited by paulpsz008 on Tuesday 1st April 19:27

[King of Dings]

Those that will thrive....
-Booze
-Gambling
-Porn
-Technology
-Toilete roll manufacturers (see above !!)
-Property companies
-Governments

Those that will not thrive....

-Tavel agents
-Insurance companies
-Supermarkets
-Engineering companies
-The Royal Family

[dilbert]

King of Dings said:

Those that will thrive....
-Booze
-Gambling
-Porn
-Technology
-Toilete roll manufacturers (see above !!)
-Property companies
-Governments

Those that will not thrive....

-Tavel agents
-Insurance companies
-Supermarkets
-Engineering companies
-The Royal Family

How does engineering differ from technology?

[paulpsz008]

Why will technology companies need toilette roll???

Surely recycling is going to keep growing?

What about power generation, those prices are going to keep going up?

[Eric Mc]

Insolvency practitioners - all the liquidations and bankruptcies

Undertakers - all the suicides

Accountants - they do well no matter what's happening in the economy

Auctioneers - all the reposessed houses and flats

Pawnbrokers - people pawning their PS3 players for cash

The National Lottery

[GarrettMacD]

Eric Mc said:

Insolvency practitioners - all the liquidations and bankruptcies

This is extremely anecdotal, but...

Yesterday I got the local free newspaper. Normally it has about one or two companies that have gone into liquidation.
This week's edition has SIX companies gone into liquidation.

The other industry that would seem to be on the up would be Bailiffs!!!

[Broken Hero]

carbon and carbon trading

Edited by Broken Hero on Wednesday 2nd April 12:24

[tigger1]

Don't sales of bread and lingerie rise during a recession?

[Fume Troll]

Energy.

Cheers,

FT.

[Timmy33]

- Pharmaceuticals. e.g AstraZeneca

- Biotech firms. e.g. Monsanto.

[lambogenie]

Bed and breakfasts,

more homeless DSS cases and companies cutting hotel travel expenses always good news for the egg and bacon landladys.

[King of Dings]

Cabbury's will alway do well - at least in my family.

[Timmy33]

Oh and hookers. The influx of poles pushed prices right down, and quality right up, meaning alot of blokes who would never have been tempted before thought "well why not".

Now alot of the poles are heading back home, supply will be reduced.....but the new demand that has been created will remain. Especially as divorce numbers go up during a recession.

This should push up prices.

[M3MTH]

tigger1 said:

Don't sales of bread and lingerie rise during a recession?

why?!?!

[john_p]

M3MTH said:

tigger1 said:

Don't sales of bread and lingerie rise during a recession?

why?!?!

i'm going to guess at
- bread: more people take sandwiches to work rather than buy out
- lingerie: more people stay in rather than going out to pubs and restaurants

[M3MTH]

john_p said:

M3MTH said:

tigger1 said:

Don't sales of bread and lingerie rise during a recession?

why?!?!

i'm going to guess at
- bread: more people take sandwiches to work rather than buy out
- lingerie: more people stay in rather than going out to pubs and restaurants

Ahh..!! i see!

[sparkyb999]

engineering is booming at the moment, and cant see it declining at all!!

[plasticpig]

Any companies involved in recycling .

[tigger1]

john_p said:

M3MTH said:

tigger1 said:

Don't sales of bread and lingerie rise during a recession?

why?!?!

i'm going to guess at
- bread: more people take sandwiches to work rather than buy out
- lingerie: more people stay in rather than going out to pubs and restaurants

People spend more on basics rather than luxury items - so yes, sarnies for lunch rather than buying food etc

And yes, people trying to cheer themselves up.

I'm hoping that somebodies earlier suggestion that energy will do well is right, as I'm moving into that area in a few weeks...and the bonus is linked to company performance

[caterhamboy]

pizza company's as people stay in, domino's has been doing its best business for a decade and is looking to expand. sure sign we are close to a recession!