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Quoted Micro 19 September 2016

ISDX Etaireia Investments (ETIP) has appointed Ian Fallman as a non-executive director. He was previously head of the Asia Pacific activities of Bloomberg and a non-executive director of AIM-quoted recruitment firm Hydrogen. He does not seem to have much direct experience of property investment companies and Etaireia is currently focused on the UK. Energy efficiency […]

Dairy Crest To Be Impacted By Food Price Inflation

Dairy Crest Group DCG  Expects a good first half performance,  with Clover, Country Life and Frylight all showing strong volume growth for the half year which will end on the 30th September.  Market share continues to be increased. However there are clouds on the horizon in the shape of price inflation which has already started […]

Morrisons Surprises Yet Again

Morrisons W MRW has never lost our Ken’s ability to spring surprises and the new management team is doing just that with a 5.3% rise in the interim dividend and underlying profit before tax for the half year to 31st July up by 11%. Whilst total turnover did fall by 4%, first half like for […]

Cello Is a Bowed String Instrument And Not A Fiddle

Alliance Pharma APH has more than doubled revenue and pre tax profits in the 6 months to the 30th June and is increasing the interim dividend by by 10%. Revenue rose by 104% including sales of ex Sinclair products whilst profit before tax rose by 113% and basic earnings per share by 25%. The share […]

Excellent progress at JD Sports Fashion (JD.)

JD Sports Fashion JD claims excellent progress with another record half year for the 6 months to the 30th July. Profit before tax leapt by 73% on revenue up by 20%. Earnings per share rose by 63% and the interim dividend is being increased by by 4.2% to 1.25p. International development of the business continues […]

Quoted Micro 12 September 2016

ISDX Mechan Controls (MECP) reported a rise in pre-tax profit from £180,000 to £271,000 on flat revenues of £1.9m in the six months to June 2016. There was £1.08m in the bank. Mechan has declared an interim dividend of 1.1725pa share and the ex-dividend date is 15 September. Trading conditions are better than one year […]

Primark Sales Fall as UK Weather Bites

Associated British Foods ABF Whoever would have thought that ABF would be reduced to the state where it has to blame poor sales at Primark on unseasonable UK weather. First Christmas was too hot and then March and April were too cold, it bleats. It has also joined that raft of companies which has now […]

Wetherspoon Lambasts Politicians and Delusional Economists

Wetherspoon JDW Sales and profits were at record levels with profit before tax after exceptionals showing a rise of 12.5% for the year to 24th July. Before exceptionals the rise was 3.6% with revenue up by 5.4%. The full year dividend is maintained at 12p. Wetherspoon’s Chairman, Tim Martin, then goes on to lambast at […]

Futura Medical Hardens on Erectile Disfunction News

Futura Medical FUM  has for years been limping along trying to combat erectile disfunction with its MED 2002 product but this morning the share price has opened with a 30% rise as the company announced that it had at last achieved its “primary endpoint” following tests on over 200 randomised males, The company claims that […]