Soft drinks maker Britvic's annual sales grew 14.6 percent aided by strong pricing and international growth, but said its Irish business continued to be tough... more
Ben Gordon's rapid exit from Mothercare, only days after it issued a shock profits warning, is a sharp reminder of what life is like in the real world of business. Fail and you're out, albeit with a 12-month pay-off if you can't find another job... more
Bad weather isn't just affecting the cricket and the national mood. Sales at retailers that ought to do well in the summer are also feeling the cold, as folk who would like to be in the garden with a cool, refreshing drink find themselves trapped indoors... more
Bankers receive a pleasant surprise when they opened their copies of the Treasury Select Committee's findings on Sir John Vickers' interim report from his Independent Banking Commission... more
The boardroom merry-go-round at pubs and restaurants group Mitchells & Butlers takes another spin as the company appoints its sixth chairman in little more than three years... more
The chief executives and chairmen were certain. There was not a ha'penny's worth of doubt in their minds. The 35 bosses, something close to a who's who of Britain's boardrooms, were so adamant that George Osborne's spending cuts were vital and wise that they wrote a letter to the Daily Telegraph saying so... more
Freight haulier Stobart loses its last family member from the main board as William Stobart steps down to concentrate on day-to-day responsibilities at the business... more
Britvic shares loose some fizz, tumbling 10% after the company warns that price rises in recent weeks of its most basic raw materials are "unprecedented"... more
Soft drinks firm Britvic says is buying France’s Fruite Enterprises for €237 million (£203 million), part funded by a share placing, as it posted a 39% rise in first-half profit... more
Market Round-up: Arriva’s shares fly to the top of the FTSE-250 winners’ list on talk that Deutsche Bahn would offer 775p a share for the operator of London’s buses and the CrossCountry rail franchise... more
Shares in Royal Bank of Scotland plunged to their lowest since April, with trading briefly halted, as a triple-whammy of worries sparked a sell-off... more
Britvic, the maker of Robinson’s and Tango fruit drinks, saw revenue rise 5.6% to £978.8 million in the year to September, fuelled by growth in its international arm
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Another bid for drugmaker Goldshield? It must be Friday. Stakes in the poker game for Britain’s biggest quoted generic medicines group just seem to get higher and higher as former management bet against the improbably named Fuhrer family of Israel for the Goldshield prize... more
Banks were on the radar again today as the City braced itself for results from Bank of America and Citigroup following decent figures from Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan ... more
Britain is a nation of chocoholics — but not when the sun’s out. That’s the message from toffee and Viennese truffles house Thorntons, which has seen sales slip during the past 10 weeks ... more
Shares in soft drinks supplier Britvic slumped 15p to 275½p after its biggest shareholder was forced to dump almost 14% of the company, worth £80.1 million, in the market place... more
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