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Friday, 29 August 2008
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AstraZeneca Q4 profits fall
Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca Plc has reported a rise in fourth quarter sales of 10 per cent to $7,677 million. The company's pre-tax profit however was down 5.0 per cent to $2,143 million.
24 Apr 2008 |
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Punch Taverns profits up 1%
Punch Taverns has released its interim results for the 28 weeks to 1 March 2008. The company which owns over 8,400 pubs in the UK said that its pre-tax profits increased 1.0 per cent to £133 million compared to the same period last year.
24 Apr 2008 |
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Yahoo profits up in Q1
Yahoo has reported a massive growth in profits in the first quarter of 2008. The internet company, which is currently resisting a takeover bid from Microsoft, said that its income rose to $542.2 million, up from $142.4 million in the same period in 2007.
23 Apr 2008 |
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Neteller Q1 revenue down 48%
Global online payments business, Neteller Plc has reported a fall in revenue for the first quarter of this year. The company said its revenue was down 48 per cent from the same period last year, dropping to $16.98 million.
18 Apr 2008 |
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Google tops profit target
Internet leader Google Inc said on Thursday it saw no impact from a weakening U.S. economy as it posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit and waved off fears of an online advertising slump.
18 Apr 2008 |
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Prudential sales up 13% on strong Asian performance
Prudential Plc said on Thursday that its total sales went up 13 per cent in the first three months of 2008, compared with the same period last year. The insurers' total sales reached £729 million in the first quarter.
17 Apr 2008 |
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Small growth at L&G in Q1
Legal & General (L&G) has reported small increases to its business in the first quarter of 2008. The insurer said that worldwide new business was up 6.0 per cent on the last quarter of 2007, rising to £352 million. However there was no change compared with the first quarter of 2007, where business was worth £368 million.
14 Apr 2008 |
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Eurostar passengers and revenues up in Q1
Eurostar has reported a rise in revenues of 25.2 per cent to £78.4 million in the first three months of 2008 thanks to a substantial rise in passenger numbers in the period. The train operator said it had 2.17 million passengers (up 21.3 per cent) in the first quarter of the year.
14 Apr 2008 |
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Wall St sees deeper slide in earnings
Wall St analysts have cut their first-quarter earnings outlook for U.S. companies yet again, according to data from Reuters Estimates on Monday.
14 Apr 2008 |
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Cadbury sales up in first quarter
Cadbury Schweppes has reported strong growth in its confectionary sales for the first quarter of 2008, with sales up 7 per cent.
The company said that sales in chewing gum were especially strong and that price increases meant it was able to offset the rising price of commodities.
07 Apr 2008 |
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