South African supermarket operator Shoprite Holdings said it has maintained its "robust and established" growth pattern, booking an increase in half-year profits. Earnings for the six month period earnings grew 19.6% to ZAR1.70bn ...
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But passing the half-way mark of this interim profit season, we now have proof that his real error was putting a super-profits tax on the wrong industry. While profits were sliding at Rio Tinto, OZ Minerals and Wesfarmers' coal division, ...
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Flightcase and speaker cabinet solutions specialist Penn Elcom has opened a new sales and distribution hub in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This is designed to enable fast access through local sales support centres - primarily in Malaysia, ...
PPC’s Zimbabwe subsidiary, Portland Holdings Limited (PHL), is to establish a new cement plant in Mashonaland province. The plant will have a production capacity of 1 million tpa and will serve the Harare and central Mozambique ...
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Sainsbury's has booked a 3.9% increase in quarterly sales, boosted by the supermarket group's "strongest ever" Christmas trading period. During the three months to 5 February, like-for-like sales increased by 1.5%. The same-store gain ...
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Analysts at Experian believe that overseas investment will maintain the momentum of mergers and acquisitions in the UK food sector. Last year saw the highest volume of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the UK food and drink sector since ...
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Liverpool based rental specialist Adlib supplied lighting and audio for the most recent tour by vocal harmony group, The Overtones. The Higher tour played a variety of venues in a six week stint around the UK in the run up to Christmas, and ...
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Food and drink deals, particularly the acquisition of Weetabix by China's Bright Food Group, dominated large-scale merger and acquisition activity in the UK in 2012, a new report by Experian shows. Food and drink was the most active ...
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Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the UK food and drink manufacturing sector last year helped to set a three-year record for the UK economy, according to information services company Experian. A key contributor to last year’s ...
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Materials characterisation company Malvern Instruments Ltd has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with Affinity Biosensors LLC which will extend the range of solutions that Malvern offers to the biopharmaceutical sector.The ...
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CITI has ended rival UBS's 11-year streak at the top of the stockbroking heap, as brokers warn that an imminent uptick in market activity is unlikely after the worst year since 2005. "I would say next year will be similar to this year in ...
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In 2008 London accounted for 33.8%of new UK IT jobs.Most other regions recorded a reducing share of new jobs. A large proportion of London-based IT jobs are in the financial services sector which was hit hardest by the economic slowdown ...
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In consonance with the economic undulations prevalent in much of the developed world the steel market has been playing second fiddle. With whole of 2012 washed off in guess work about turnaround in the economic crisis in Europe and USA ...
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For its most recent financial quarter, IBM experienced a drop-off in revenue, though it was able to maintain profit growth. For the second quarter, IBM generated US$25.8 billion in revenue, down 3 percent from the second quarter of 2011. ...
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Live Experience, the showcase for event and experiential production services has announced its exhibitor line-up which already exceeds the 2012 list. With five months of the sales cycle remaining ahead of the exhibition, this is a real ...
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