Friday preview: Fullers, Lo-Q

19th Nov 2009 17:33

London-based pub group Fullers has been consistently bullish in recent months despite the woes affecting its bigger rivals in the pub sector.Earlier this year the group announced it would deliver results at least in line with expectations for the current financial year, a comment it made after only three months of the year.The firm's Organic Honeydew beer has been a winner with brokers' saying it has enjoyed success by switching drinkers away from lager traditional real ales.In the 16 weeks to 18 July 2009. Fuller's Inns saw like for like sales in its managed pubs and hotels increase by 2.9%, while tenanted like-for-like profits were down 1%. The Fuller's Beer Company's own brewed beer volumes grew by 2%.INTERIMS Chapelthorpe, Fuller Smith and Turner, RIT CapitalINTERIM DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE Bloomsbury Publishing, DataCash Group, Essentially Group, Hunting, Intertek Group, Kerry Group 'A', NTT DoCoMo Inc., Primary Health Properties QUARTERLY PAYMENT DATE Caterpillar INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS Producer Price Index (GER) (07:00) Bank of Japan Target Rate (JPN) Convenience Store Sales (JPN) AGMS Matchtech FINAL DIVIDEND PAYMENT DATE City of London Investment Group, Eleco, Go-Ahead Group, Hansard Global, Hays, Smiths GroupTRADING UPDATESLo-Q