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City buzzing as rumours of Qatari offer boosts Sainsbury’s by £1bn

15.10.09
J Sainsbury whetted City speculators’ appetites today as revived talk of a takeover added almost £1 billion to the stock market value of the UK’s third-biggest food retailer... more

Hovis help for Premier Foods

05.08.09
Premier Foods delivered a jump in sales as shoppers stocked up on Hovis bread, but also sank into the red for the first six months of the year ... more

Protestors disrupt biofuels Mayfair summit

02.07.09
Climate activists clash with police as they try to storm a five-star Mayfair hotel and disrupt a“biofuels” industry summit... more

Hovis feeds sales at Premier Foods

29.06.09
Premier Foods, the UK's biggest foodmaker, said business in May and June was "in line with trends seen in the first four months of 2009" when sales were up 3%... more

Eat what you kill: why bonuses never went away

26.06.09
Did the banks learn any lessons from the credit crunch? The £9.6m deal for the new RBS chief shows they haven’t... more

Premier on a roll with Hovis TV adverts push

12.05.09
Premier Foods plans to do for Hovis rolls what it did for Hovis loaves last year with a £2 million TV adverts campaign launching next month ... more

Tesco looks wobbly after JPMorgan flags concerns

03.04.09
Are the wheels coming off supermarket juggernaut Tesco?... more

Warburg Pincus picks up a slice of Premier Foods

20.03.09
Private-equity house Warburg Pincus has grabbed a 13% stake in Premier Foods after a fundraising exercise was shunned by some shareholders... more

Cairn slides as it seeks to put new funds in pipeline

11.03.09
Cairn Energy is looking to raise an extra £120 million to help build pipelines to transport the vast oil reserves it has in India's Rajasthan region... more

Finance and property firms face chop from the Footsie

10.03.09
Such has been the pace and the scale of the stock market sell-off since the start of the year that the profile of the benchmark FTSE 100 index is set for another major makeover... more

Wolseley pays high price to ensure fundraising success

06.03.09
Plumbing giant Wolseley is paying millions of pounds in extra City fees to ensure it receives the £1 billion it needs to shore up its funding from an increasingly nervous investment community... more

Premier Foods £25m bill to spur cash call

05.03.09
Premier Foods is dishing out £25 million to investment banks to push through a £404 million rights issue it desperately needs to bolster its debt-ridden balance sheet... more

Segro joins queue to top up the coffers

04.03.09
Property group Segro has launched a deeply discounted £500 million rights issue, becoming the latest — but not the last — property company to seek more cash from investors... more

FTSE lowest for 6 years as HSBC joins cash-call queue

02.03.09
Share prices plunged back below the 3700 support level today to trade at their lowest for six years after Europe's biggest bank, HSBC, waded into the Square Mile to tap shareholders for a record £12.5 billion. ... more

Electrical goods to cost more as yen soars against pound

27.01.09
Gadget prices are set to soar on the high street because of the strength of the yen, experts warned... more

Market report: Worries on debt exposure send the insurers reeling

23.01.09
Renewed fears about the financial sector hammered leading insurance groups, with investors increasingly worried about the insurance world's exposure to corporate debt, especially bank bonds. ... more

Premier plans £300m share sale to cut debt

12.01.09
Consumer: Debt-laden Hovis bread group Premier Foods is set to unveil plans for a £300 million share placing and rights issue to prevent what is Britain’s biggest food producer collapsing under the weight of its £1.8 billion of borrowings... more

Premier seeks a cash boost to reduce debt

15.12.08
Consumer: The food group behind Hovis and Mr Kipling has confirmed rumours that have been circulating in the City for weeks that it is seeking a sizeable cash injection from investors... more

Premier buys time over debts

18.11.08
Consumer: Hugely indebted Branston Pickle maker Premier Foods today said it is paying its lenders a fee of almost £5 million to give itself some breathing space on its loans... more

Market report: Big Lloyds TSB sell-off catches dealers on hop

11.11.08
A big seller sent shares of Lloyds TSB tumbling 14p to 181.2p as more than nine million shares changed hands... more

Market report: Footsie extends its gains as Morgan turns bullish

04.11.08
The London stock market was shaping up for its sixth consecutive day of gains as one of the City's big-hitters turned bullish after being almost 18 months out in the cold... more

Premier Foods burnt by talk of money troubles

17.10.08
Hovis baker Premier Foods came under intense pressure as it was hit by a fresh wave of speculation that it is in danger of breaching its banking covenants ... more

‘Lumpy’ price rises on way, warns Hovis-maker Premier

28.08.08
Hovis-to-Branston pickle maker Premier Foods predicts that food prices will rise further in the coming year... more

Market report: Sainsbury soaring on buzz over bid by Qatar

28.08.08
The UK's third-biggest supermarket chain J Sainsbury put in a late spurt this afternoon as speculative buying pushed the price 14¼p higher to 333p... more

Premier Foods on target after 7% sales jump

15.07.08
Premier Foods said it was on course to meet profit expectations for the year after a 7% leap in first-half sales... more

Pricey rice hits East and West

18.04.08
Rice futures surge for a fifth day to a new record, as export restrictions bite and Aussie farmers shift out of the crop... more

World Bank says food costs set to keep rising

04.04.08
The World Bank warns that there is no end in sight to rising food costs... more

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