Friday preview: Another quiet day expected
22nd Nov 2012 16:01
Friday is set to be another quiet day on London's stock market with Wall Street only open until lunchtime. Trade volumes were said to be very light on Thursday with US equity and bond markets Stateside closed for the Thanksgiving holiday. Research analyst Joshua Mahony from Alpari said: "Tomorrow
Read moreSweett Group helps complete NHS Trust project
2nd Oct 2012 07:47
Sweett Group, an international property and infrastructure consultancy, has been trumpeting its involvement in the completion of an urgent care centre and emergency department for Lewisham Healthcare NHS Trust. "This particular project presented a number of challenges, including carrying out extens
Read moreM&A round-up: Terrace Hill, Plus Markets, Sweett ...
19th Sep 2012 15:15
Terrace Hill Group, a leading UK property development and investment group, has announced the conditional acquisition of a foodstore and residential development site in Midsomer Norton, Somerset, and reported good progress with three other foodstore developments around the country. The acquisition w
Read moreSweett upbeat after poor 2011
3rd Sep 2012 08:40
International property and infrastructure consultancy, Sweett Group, said it had started the new financial year in a considerably stronger fashion than 2011, in which it posted a loss. The firm reported a loss for the year to the end of March of one million pounds after being hit by losses in Austr
Read moreSweett scores hat-trick of energy sector deals
17th Aug 2012 09:07
Sweett Group, the international property and infrastructure consultancy, has secured three energy sector appointments in the UK. The first contract is with Babcock International Group, under which it will provide quantity surveying and commercial services on the engineering firm's UK nuclear decom
Read moreSmall caps round-up: Sweet, 3D Diagnostic, Turbo Power...
6th Aug 2012 10:21
Sweet Group, an international property and infrastructure consultancy, has appointed Colin Bartlett as Senior Director with responsibility for the group's project management service offering across London and the South-east, and Helen Pickering as Project Director within its healthcare team. Bartlet
Read moreSmall caps round-up: Pinnacle, Armour, Sweett...
23rd Jul 2012 11:52
Pinnacle Technology Group, a provider of cloud based technology solutions, has entered into an exclusivity agreement with EE Soft, a security software company based in North Carolina in the US, under which EES has granted Pinnacle exclusivity to market and distribute its anti-theft computer security
Read moreSweett plummets on delays
26th Jun 2012 11:01
Sweett Group, the international property and infrastructure consultancy, said its results would miss market expectations after two deals were hit by delays. The problems stem from a hold up in asset sales at its Inverclyde Schools and Dumfries & Galloway Schools PFI projects. Sweet's shares plumme
Read moreSmall cap round-up: ValiRx, Transense, Sweett
29th May 2012 08:37
Shares in ValiRx, the life sciences firm, leapt almost 40% on Tuesday after it said independent trials had confirmed the effectiveness of its prostate cancer drug VAL201. The firm said the "significant and substantively important findings" showed its drug reduced the spread of secondary tumours by u
Read moreSmall caps round-up: Tracsis, Total Produce, Sweett
3rd May 2012 13:59
Tracsis, which helps transport companies organise their schedules and count passengers, has secured a further contract with a major worldwide rail operating group for use of its resource optimisation software. The value of the contract was not revealed. The agreement secures software licence revenue
Read moreRobust year for Sweett Group
27th Apr 2012 12:19
Sweett Group, an international property and infrastructure consultancy, is expecting booming Asian Pacific markets to continue to pick up the slack from a struggling Europe. The firm has said its profit before amortisation and exceptional administrative expenses for the year to the end of March is
Read moreThere's a Sweett new build in Central London
8th Feb 2012 12:59
Sweett Group, a property and infrastructure professional services consultancy, has been appointed to provide contract administration and support services for the fitting out of the Shangri-La Hotel in the London Bridge Tower. The tower, also knows as The Shard, is the tallest building currently u
Read moreLondon close: Footsie tumbles over 2%
2nd Sep 2011 16:30
The Footsie finished over 2% down on Friday, as London was not immune from the global sell-off, meaning that just eight out of the 100 blue chips stocks closed in the blue. After a poor start in early trade, sentiment was dampened after a worse-than-expected jobs report in the US which showed that n
Read moreLondon midday: Stocks stuck lower ahead of jobs data
2nd Sep 2011 12:27
London's leading share index is firmly in the red now, giving up gains from earlier this week ahead of the big US jobs report due this afternoon. The eagerly awaited headline results from a clinical trial comparing AstraZeneca's cholesterol treatment Crestor to Pfizer's Lipitor have been released,
Read moreCyril Sweet slumps on profits warning
2nd Sep 2011 08:27
Construction and property consultancy Cyril Sweett saw its share price plunge more than 20% after announcing that it had cancelled a number of projects in the Middle East. Blaming the Arab spring for the cancellations, the company said that it now expects a lower level of client investment going f
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