Cashbox signs hospitals deal with WH Smith
14th Sep 2010 16:25
Cash machine operator Cashbox has signed a five year deal with UNS Hopsitals, the hospital shops subsidiary of newsagent chain WH Smith, to provide automated teller machines. The company also announced that it expects to report a loss before tax of less than £2.4m and negative earnings before inte
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29th Mar 2010 11:56
Housebuilder Artisan has seen some improvement in its business in recent months, with losses in the half year to December down to £0.7m from £1.7m on sales of £4.2m against £5.1m. "Since the end of the period under review, the mortgage market appears to have eased a little with mortgage funds start
Read moreThreshers collapse hits Cashbox
3rd Mar 2010 14:52
Cash machine deployer Cashbox saw revenue ease in the second half of 2009 as the number of machines in its estate fell as a result of a major customer moving into administration. Revenue in the six months to 31 December 2009 eased to £3.37m from £3.43m in the latter half of 2008, though the number
Read moreLondon close: Commodity slide hits Footsie
13th Jan 2010 16:32
Footsie ended the day firmly in the red with low commodity prices helping to offset positive broker coverage. With the oil price below $80, oil titans Royal Dutch Shell and BP found themselves on traders' sell lists. BG Group also slipped even after HSBC upped its price target for the stock from 13
Read moreLondon afternoon: Leading shares mixed
13th Jan 2010 14:57
Leading shares are mixed having picked up a little over the lunch time session, helped by a firmer start on Wall Street. With the oil price below $80, oil titans Royal Dutch Shell and BP find themselves on traders' sell lists, but BG Group makes headway after HSBC upped its price target for the st
Read moreLondon midday: Ferrero pulls out of Cadbury chase
13th Jan 2010 11:56
Oils and banks are dragging the Footsie down, with sentiment also soured by disappointing manufacturing output figures. While industrial production showed a 0.4% rise in November, better than the 0.3% rise economists had been predicting, manufacturing output remained unchanged from October's level
Read moreCashbox extends pubs business
13th Jan 2010 11:48
London brewer and pubs owner Fuller, Smith and Turner has turned to Cashbox to operate the 35 cashpoint machines in its existing estate, with the possibility of the brewer adding further automatic teller machines (ATMs) throughout its near 400-strong pub estate. Cash machine operator Cashbox said t
Read moreSmall caps round-up: Plexus, Independent Media, Interbulk...
15th Dec 2009 09:05
Oil and gas engineering services firm Plexus Holdings has won a three year contract with a further two year option clause with Maersk Oil to supply its High Pressure/ High Temperature POS-GRIP wellhead technology. The value of the initial contract is estimated at £3m with revenues commencing in May
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21st Oct 2009 13:16
Latin American oil and gas exploration and production company GeoPark gained after announcing the successful drilling and testing of a new discovery oil well - Yagan Norte 1 - in the Tobifera formation on the Fell Block in Chile. GeoPark drilled and completed the Yagan Norte 1 well to a total dept
Read moreTuesday tips round-up: Yule Catto, Hardy Underwriting, St Ives
20th Oct 2009 06:46
The upgrades to earnings forecasts after specialist chemicals group Yule Catto's latest tading update yesterday ? the third in four months ? imply that Yule will achieve pre-tax profits this year of £39m, 19% higher than last. Yule still trades at a reasonable nine times next year's earnings, despi
Read moreCashbox breaks even in Q1
19th Oct 2009 08:15
Cash machine operator Cashbox said it has delivered breakeven EBITDA in the first quarter of 2009/10 and it is confident of continued improvements during the current year. Core revenue for the period was up 36% on 2007/8 with 11% due to organic growth and the remaining 25% growth through acquisitio
Read moreSmall caps round-up: Devro, Cashbox, Sportech...
4th Aug 2009 11:30
Devro more than doubled first half pre-tax profit to £11m from £5m a year ago and the sausage skin maker expects the improving performance to continue through the second half. Profit before exceptional items for the six months ended 30 June 2009 rose 17% to £9.2m on sales up 27% to £105m. The inter
Read moreSmall caps round-up: smartFocus, Globo, Record...
21st Jul 2009 09:19
Shares in smartFocus soared after the marketing software company said it expected to post 13% rise in revenues in the half year to June 30, with profits also significantly ahead. The firm has benefitted from the rise in digital marketing's popularity, with customers wins during the period including
Read moreLondon close: Further losses after World Bank cuts forecast
22nd Jun 2009 16:55
Having endured a dull morning London's leading stocks pitched further into the red in the afternoon session after the World Bank cut its 2009 global growth forecast. British Airways was the biggest faller on arch rival Richard Branson's comments that it should be allowed to go bust if its financia
Read moreSmall caps round-up: Imagination, Cashbox, Capital & Regional...
22nd Jun 2009 09:09
System on a chip technology firm Imagination Technologies Group has signed a multi-use licence agreement with semiconductor company MediaTek. MediaTek will deploy Imagination's POWERVR SGX graphics processor technology on its future system on a chip devices. Imagination will receive licensing fees
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