Harvey Nash to boost divi payment after strong year
13th Feb 2013 08:50
Harvey Nash, a global professional recruitment and outsourcing group, cheered investors on Wednesday morning with the news its full year results for the period ended January 31st are set to be slightly ahead of recently upgraded expectations, prompting a 10 per cent increase in its final dividend pa
Read moreTuesday broker round-up UPDATE
4th Dec 2012 07:35
Anite: Panmure Gordon moves target price from 163p to 165p; buy recommendation kept. Canaccord Genuity raises target price from 143p to 169p and maintains a buy recommendation. Ashtead: Seymour Pierce raises target price from 400p to 460p and reiterates its buy recommendation. Barclays: Credit Sui
Read moreHarvey Nash to exceed expectations by 10 per cent
30th Nov 2012 08:19
Recruitment firm Harvey Nash expects to beat full-year forecasts by 10 per cent driven by strong third-quarter trading in temporary and contract placements, although permanent recruitment remains challenging. The company said that with relatively good visibility from its contract recruitment busine
Read moredotDigital directors sell to satisfy institutional demand
29th Oct 2012 15:56
Three directors at dotDigital, which provides digital software services to marketing professionals, have each sold four million shares in the company to partially satisfy demand for 22m shares from 'a major institution', at a price of 13p each. Chief Executive and Finance Director Peter Simmonds c
Read moreHarvey Nash confident as robust demand continues
28th Sep 2012 08:25
Shares of recruitment and IT outsourcing services group Harvey Nash firmed after it posted improved revenues and gross profit despite challenging trading conditions. Adjusted profit before tax increased to £4.2m for the six months ended July 31st 2012 from £3.8m a year earlier. Revenue gained 15% t
Read moreHarvey Nash does well from temp placings
13th Aug 2012 11:06
Recruiter Harvey Nash said an increasing number of employers looking to take on temporary staff was helping off-set a fall in permanent recruitment. The firm said that despite challenging market conditions and macro-economic uncertainty, it expected to report further increases in first half revenue
Read moreTuesday tips round-up: Aberdeen Asset Management, Harvey Nash, GSK
1st May 2012 06:59
Tempus in the Times likes Aberdeen Asset Management. It's grown its AUM (assets under management) figure both through deals, and latterly through organic growth and has now made it into the FTSE 100. Recent performance has been so strong (AUM: £184.7m, 9% up over the last six months) that Tempus s
Read moreHarvey Nash buoyed by UK and Nordic markets
30th Apr 2012 07:18
Recruitment consultancy and IT outsourcing service provider Harvey Nash revealed a robust set of annual results amid strong demand from its UK and Nordic markets. The group said it gained significant market share in the Nordics and the UK, with robust demand for flexible labour continuing despite u
Read moreHarvey Nash founder buys shares
13th Oct 2011 14:32
Harvey Nash founder Thomas Crawford has bought £96,300 worth of shares in the white collar recruitment firm. Also the non-executive director with responsibility for acquisitions and corporate development, Crawford paid 64.2p per share for 150,000 shares. He now has about 4.7m. Last month the grou
Read moreFriday preview: Cash generative Harvey Nash to up the divi
29th Sep 2011 17:55
Troubled ladies fashion group Alexon had been set to announce interim figures on Friday but as it has been bought by the private equity company Sun Capital Partners after calling in the administrators, there is a good chance that the figures will not be released. Harvey Nash, the white collar recru
Read moreHarvey Nash awash with cash
16th Aug 2011 10:54
Harvey Nash, the white collar recruitment firm, has seen "a strong performance across all key geographic segments" in the first half of the year. The group's interim results, which will be released at the end of September, are expected to report an increase of 20% in revenue and gross profit, as w
Read moreWednesday tips round-up: Bloomsbury, Harvey Nash, Avingtrans...
1st Jun 2011 06:31
The headline figures in Bloomsbury's results at the end of last week were far from inspiring. But the real highlight of the update was the news that sales of electronic books had rocketed. Of course, the rise of e-books does present challenges for publishers. The most obvious will be the need for co
Read moreHarvey Nash sees better trends, especially outside the UK
28th Apr 2011 15:15
White collar recruitment firm Harvey Nash has today announced improved profits for the year ended on the past 31st of January, although from a low base. While revenues grew by 12%, to £376m, adjusted operating profit improved by 45%, but to just $6.5m. The above after, "a period of extremely c
Read moreTuesday tips round-up: John Wood, Kazakhmys, Harvey Nash...
15th Feb 2011 06:45
There can be few cavils over the price that the board of John Wood Group has raised from the sale of its well support division. A net $2.6bn after tax, fees and expenses was significantly higher than the market had been expecting. Once the sale is completed and cash returned to shareholders, the sh
Read moreLondon close: Flat finish for FTSE 100
14th Feb 2011 16:42
The top share index finished flat after a sluggish day's trading. Takeover talk pushed the price of engineering stalwarts Weir Group and Invensys higher, with engineering colossus Siemens said to have cash burning a hole in its pocket. The German company's chief financial officer, Joe Kaeser, sai
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