British American Tobacco, Europe's largest cigarette maker, said yesterday it had increased first-quarter profits by 21% on favourable currency movements and higher sales of its premium brands.
House of Bruar, the luxury retailer which lures motorists off the A9 in the Highlands, has warned that the economic slowdown could hurt the sector, and that suppliers are feeling the pinch.
Investors should sell their shares in HBOS but consider buying Royal Bank of Scotland, Collins Stewart analyst Alex Potter tipped yesterday amid warnings that falling prices on commercial property could have a knock-on impact on lenders' profits.
Search Consultancy the Glasgow-headquartered
recruitment firm, which has been pondering a flotation, increased turnover by 13% to £113.8m last year, according
to its annual accounts just published.
SHARES in Cairn Energy rose 4.5%, or 134p, to £31.34p. after the company's Indian subsidiary cleared one of
the last remaining obstacles
in the way of the successful start of production from giant finds made by the firm in Rajasthan state.
United Airlines and US Airways are in very advanced talks and expect to announce within weeks that they are combining, two people familiar with the negotiations said yesterday.
Crude oil prices edged closer to $120 a barrel yesterday on concern that a labour dispute in Scotland and supply disruptions in Nigeria may severely reduce supplies of black gold.
Braveheart, the Scottish investment group, said yesterday it is considering making an all-share offer for Angle, a Surrey-based investor in early-stage technology companies.
Royal Dutch Shell directors say the company will be able to deliver increased production well into the future through a focus on big projects in which unconventional assets like oil sands will play an increasingly important role.
Next year's AGM will be held in the flower and produce tent
There is a perception that the typical investment trust shareholders are a retired colonel and his twin-setted wife.
Prudential, the UK's largest insurer by market worth, yesterday unveiled a drop in its full-year pre-tax profits, knocked off-kilter by lacklustre short-term investment returns amid highly- volatile global financial markets.
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