Debt Collectors have good year

The Bulletin Vol. 2, No. 2, 12 January 1963 · p. 5 of the scan · 73 words

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(From the Financial Times.)

Described as an indication of the "depressed state of business throughout last year" the total number of commercial and industrial debt collections undertaken by the Trade Indemnity Company reached a record level in 1962. Underwriters of credit insurance, Trade Indemnity' service for collecting overdte accounts for policy—holders, dealt with 8,113 cases involving nearly £1.2 million last year. ee with the previous peak of 6,282 debts involving £838,374 n s