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...Howden Joinery rose 8 per cent to 125½p on results at the upper end of expectations and a return to the dividend list....
...Jim Sheridan, Labour MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire North, called on Colfax to “come forward with a clear and detailed plan for the future of the company to ensure the firm’s long-term survival and to put...
...Trading at its Howden business remained slightly ahead of previous expectations. Howden saw its order book rise to a record high of £598m at the end of May....
...Matt Ingle, chief executive of Howden Joinery Group, presides over a company that supplies kitchen and joinery equipment to small builders, serving 234,000 registered customers from more than 450 depots...
...But the broker argued that cost-cutting could do nothing to abate pricing pressure at Ferguson, its North American plumbing business, which presents “a serious downside risk to current expectations of operationally...
...Dana Petroleum lost 0.4 per cent to £13.96 on news that RWE – once rumoured to be a potential suitor – said it had bought a 70 per cent stake in the Breagh gas field in the North Sea....
...“Particularly since the beginning of this year, we’re seeing a real reduction of capacity and appetite for this sort of risk,” said Ed Brennan of Howden Risk Partners, a London-based insurance broker specialising...
...And I have ignored the north-south border. 1. Charles Stewart Parnell (politician, born Avondale, Co Wicklow)....
...Voter value Thursday is D-Day for David Davis, the former shadow home secretary, who faces the electorate at Haltemprice and Howden in Yorkshire....
...Howden’s order book rose 17.7 per cent in the first half and continued rising in July and August....
...Today Charter is refocused around two market-leading businesses: Esab, which makes welding equipment, and Howden, a manufacturer of air and gas handling equipment....
...Moveover, by increasing the number Howden’s depots in the UK and expanding in Europe a private equity buyer could create a business big enough to be re-floated in a couple of years....
...Barclays was the subject of takeover speculation for much of this year, but Bank of America recently played down talk it was planning a move....
...Galiform’s main operation is Howden, a highly profitable joinery business that could be attractive to Travis Perkins, 0.7 per cent higher at £17.99, Kingfisher, 1.4 per cent better at 267½p, or a venture...
...MFI shares have gained 56 per cent from last month’s low of 66p on talk of the sale of its Howden joinery division and hopes of a recovery in trading....
...“While we have feared that the severe deterioration in trading at UK retail might eventually impact Howden, there is no hard evidence to suggest that this had been the case,” Citigroup said....
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