Macfarlane Group has annouced its interim results for the six months to 30 June 2016. Graeme Bissett, Chairman of Macfarlane Group PLC, today said: “Macfarlane Group’s performance in the six months to 30 June 2016 is ...
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Home Retail Group has issued a trading statement for the eight weeks to 27th February 2016, a turbulent time for the company given the imminent sale of Argos and Homebase (the latter now completed). Chief executive John Walden ...
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The grocer is predicted to unveil a loss of up to £5bn in its full year results this Wednesday. Tesco is expected to reveal its worst results in history with full-year results unveiling a loss of £5bn on Wednesday. It is ...
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John Lewis Partnership plc announces Unaudited results for 52 weeks to 25 January 2014. Financial Highlights -Gross sales exceed £10bn for the Partnership, £6bn for Waitrose and £4bn for John Lewis -Revenue ...
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(Left to right): Orbis Partners partner James Grenfell, Abacus finance director Steve Banks, Abacus managing director Steve Lamb and Orbis Partners director Toby Arrowsmith Abacus Lighting has been sold to a group of industrialists and ...
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A number of local government administering authorities have created a framework for the provision of pension software solutions and issued a tender worth between £3m and £30m. The Official Journal of the European Union tender ...
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UK firm Dairy Crest has announced it is reorganising its business to focus on "consumer-driven growth" and to build an "integrated" supply chain. The move reflects the increasingly "more focused" and "less complex" nature of Dairy Crest's ...
Kraft Foods Group today (15 February) said it expected to file a near-11% fall in revenues for the last three months of 2012, with sales down across the US grocery group's businesses. The Oscar Mayer meats firm, which was formed when ...
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UK-based underwriter Rothesay Life has signed a pound 115m bulk annuity insurance agreement with Western United Group Pension Scheme, to cover a portion of the pension liabilities associated with Vestey Group's pension scheme. The ...
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Mutual insurance, retirement and investment group LV= and Swiss Re successfully completed GBP800m ($1.3bn) longevity insurance contract. The longevity contract involves longevity exposure insurance for 5,000 individuals who were members ...
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UK cake manufacturer Finsbury Food Group today (24 September) reported an increase in full-year profits after seeing sales exceed GBP200m (US$324.3m) for the first time. The company booked profit after tax of GBP4.9m for the year to the ...
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Dutch's paint and chemicals group Akzo Nobel has signed a longevity insurance deal worth €1.75bn with Zurich-based Swiss Re, under which the reinsurer's UK subsidiary ReAssure will write the UK pension funds of Akzo. As per the ...
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Willis Group subsidiary Willis Risk Services (Ireland) (Willis Ireland) has acquired Attain Consulting and its units' Trustee Principles, as part of its ongoing commitment to expand its domestic employee benefits business. As a part of ...
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UK based Pension Corporation, the specialist insurer which manages pension schemes’ risks, has raised nearly 300m pounds by disposing some of its pension schemes to reinsurer Munich Re. The Munich Re arrangement has been initiated ...
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Stephen Kelly, former CEO of technology company Micro Focus, has taken over as chief operating officer (COO) at the Cabinet Office and head of the Efficiency and Reform Group in Ian Watmore's former role. Stephen Kelly is understood to ...
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