Friday tips round-up: Restaurant Group, Hargreaves Lansdown, Hays
2nd Sep 2011 06:48
Restaurant Group operates the Frankie & Benny's, Chiquito and Garfunkel's brands. It showed good form in the half year to early July, growing adjusted pre-tax profits by 7.7 per cent to £24.6m. The group also grew its sales on outlets open at least a year by 3%, adding it had continued this momentum
Read moreHuntsworth profit tumbles
25th Aug 2011 07:43
Public relations firm Huntsworth posted a sharp drop in half year profit as demand from clients slowed but it expects revenue growth to accelerate at the start of the new financial year. Pre-tax profit fell to £9.6m for the six months to 30 June 2011 from £12m during the same half last year. Revenu
Read moreThursday tips round-up: Ferrexpo, Carnival, Petropavlovsk
24th Mar 2011 06:34
If you think we've got problems, try living in Ukraine. Inflation was running at 21 per cent there last year, a headache for companies such as Ferrexpo, which mines iron ore and ships it by rail and barge to its customers, mostly in Central and Eastern Europe. The shares are on about seven times thi
Read moreHuntsworth moves into profit, buys Atomic PR
23rd Mar 2011 08:02
Public relations firm Huntsworth revealed an increase in full year profit and confirmed that it has bought Atomic PR for $13.3m in cash as it beefs up its North American presence. The group, whose brands include Citigate and Grayling, said pre-tax profit rose to £26.7m for the year ended 31 Decem
Read moreSmall caps round-up: Huntsworth, Porvair
19th Nov 2010 15:31
Shares in public relations outfit Huntsworth fell back after it said some of the revenues it had expected to come in this year will be delayed until 2011. It also announced that finance director Tymon Broadhead is stepping down to be replaced by Colin Adams, currently finance boss at the Harry Pott
Read moreUK SMALLCAP ROUNDUP: Revolymer Gum To Go On Sale In US
9th Jul 2010 16:00
Dow Jones smallcap news is now on Twitter, allowing you to catch up on the news away from your desk. Go to http://twitter.com/DJ_UK_Smallcaps REVOLYMER LTD., a U.K. company that developed a chewing gum that can be easily removed from the sidewalk said it completed the regulatory requirements to
Read moreUK SMALLCAP ROUNDUP: SureTrack Monitoring Plans AIM Listing
9th Jul 2010 09:30
Dow Jones smallcap news is now on Twitter, allowing you to catch up on the news away from your desk. Go to http://twitter.com/DJ_UK_Smallcaps SURETRACK MONITORING PLC (STMP.PM) Friday said it plans to raise about GBP1.4 million through a share placing and will list its shares on the Alternative
Read moreHuntsworth Buys Medical Communications Firm For GBP4.6M Cash
9th Jul 2010 08:03
LONDON (Dow Jones)--Public relations group Huntsworth PLC (HNT.LN) Friday said it has bought a global medical communications company for GBP4.6 million cash. Huntsworth has bought ScopeMedical Limited, which it described as a fast-growing international medical communications company that offers
Read moreHuntsworth Plc Acquisition
9th Jul 2010 07:00
TIDMHNT RNS Number : 0931P Huntsworth PLC 09 July 2010 ? 9 July 2010 Huntsworth plc acquires ScopeMedical Limited Strengthens Huntsworth Health's presence in Medical Communications Huntsworth PLC ("Huntsworth"), the international public relations and healthcare commu
Read moreHuntsworth non-exec buys again
21st Apr 2010 16:45
Huntsworth non-executive director Eugene Beard has taken his spending on the marketing services company's shares in the past year to nearly £186,000. Beard has bought a further 100,000 shares at 72.91p each. This is the highest price he has paid for the shares in the past year. The lowest buying p
Read moreFlat Huntsworth expects recovery
24th Feb 2010 16:38
Marketing services provider Huntsworth reported flat revenues and profits for 2009 but it sees signs of improvement this year. Revenues slipped back from £159.1m to £156.3m, while pre-tax profit dipped from £24m to £23.4m. However, there were £33.2m of exceptional costs not included in that figure
Read moreDevelica co-founder hopes for recovery
4th Jan 2010 15:37
Develica Deutschland co-founder Grant N Tromans has been adding to his stake in the German property investor. The non-executive director bought 540,000 shares on New Year's Eve at 3.18518 eurocents a share. This €17,200 investment took his stake to 4.22%. Just before Christmas, Tromans bought 2,
Read moreBeard increases Huntsworth stake
30th Dec 2009 14:32
Non-executive director Eugene Beard has added to his holding in marketing communications firm Huntsworth Group. He invested £31,200 in 50,000 Huntsworth shares. This takes his stake to 625,000 shares. Beard invested nearly £24,000 in June, when he added 61,376 shares to his shareholding. Beard is
Read moreThursday tips round-up: Sage, Prudential, Babcock
3rd Dec 2009 06:17
The virtues of Sage ? a strong base of recurring revenues and tight management of costs ? remain intact. The pressure on sales is also likely to ease from here. However, at 221p, or 11 times current year forecasts, and yielding 3.5 per cent, their shares require something more than resilience if the
Read moreHuntsworth buys US firm Dutko
2nd Dec 2009 07:49
Public relations firm Huntsworth said it is buying US-based public policy management company Dutko for an initial consideration of $33.6m. This acquisition brings a new strategic investor, Lake Capital Partners, to the group. The business is being acquired from its employees and Lake for an init
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