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BHP Group delivered strong operational performance with record production at Western Australia Iron Ore

BHP Group plc (LON:BHP) has announced its operational review for the half year ended 31 December 2020. Note: All guidance is subject to further potential impacts from COVID-19 during the..

Pearson sales and profit in line with expectations for the full year

Pearson plc (LON:PSON), the world’s leading learning company, has provided an update on full year 2020 trading. Full year results will be announced on 5th March 2021. Key highlights for..

Burberry Group achieve strong underlying outperformance of full-price sales in Q3

Burberry Group plc (LON:BRBY) has announced its third quarter trading update. “Despite the challenging external environment, we made good progress on our strategic priorities in the quarter. We saw a..

British Land appoints Bhavesh Mistry as new Chief Financial Officer

British Land plc (LON:BLND) has announced that Bhavesh Mistry has been appointed Chief Financial Officer. Bhavesh is currently Deputy Chief Financial Officer at Tesco PLC, a position he has held..

British American Tobacco announces succession for Director, Operations

British American Tobacco plc (LON:BAT) has announced succession for Director, Operations. Alan Davy, Director, Operations will step down from the Management Board on 31st January 2021 and will leave the BAT..

AstraZeneca’s Enhertu approved in the US for gastric cancer

AstraZeneca plc (LON:AZN) and Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited’s Enhertu (trastuzumab deruxtecan) has been approved in the US for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic HER2-positive gastric..

AVEVA Group strong quarter of contract renewals improving revenue growth to approx. 1.5%

AVEVA Group plc (LON:AVV), a global leader in engineering and industrial software, has announced the following trading update. AVEVA’s performance for the nine months ended 31 December 2020 AVEVA had..

AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi approved in EU for new dosing

AstraZeneca plc (LON:AZN) Imfinzi (durvalumab) has been approved in the European Union and the UK for an additional dosing option, a 1,500mg fixed dose every four weeks, in locally advanced,..

British American Tobacco pleased SFO has discontinued its investigation

British American Tobacco plc (LON:BATS) has been informed by the UK’s Serious Fraud Office that the SFO has discontinued the investigation of suspicions of corruption in the conduct of business..

Associated British Foods Primark sales down 30% on last year

Associated British Foods plc (LON:ABF) has announced a trading update for the 16 weeks to 2 January 2021 covering the group businesses and the significant trading developments in Primark since..

Tesco strong UK sales performance in Q3 with like-for-like growth of +6.7%, accelerating to +8.1% at Christmas

Tesco plc (LON:TSCO) has announced a 3Q and Christmas Trading Statement 2020/2. Ken Murphy, Chief Executive: “Our focus on looking after our customers, including delivering record availability, robust safety measures..

Persimmon robust trading with total group revenues of £3.33 billion

Persimmon plc (LON:PSN) has announced the following update ahead of its Final Results for the year ended 31 December 2020, which will be released on 3 March 2021. Dean Finch,..

Just Eat Takeaway.com achieves third consecutive quarter of order growth acceleration

Just Eat Takeaway.com (LON:JET), one of the world’s largest online food delivery marketplaces, has issued a trading update for the fourth quarter of 2020. ·      Just Eat Takeaway.com further strengthened its..

Kingfisher sees strong demand across its markets with Q4 LFL sales up 16.9%

Kingfisher plc (LON:KGF) has provided an update on Q4 trading to date. Q4 trading to 9 January As announced on 19 November 2020, Kingfisher’s Q3 20/21 Group LFL(1) sales were up..

Johnson Matthey appoints Stephen Oxley as Chief Financial Officer

Johnson Matthey plc (LON:JMAT) has announced that Stephen Oxley will join the company’s board on 1st April 2021 as Chief Financial Officer. On the same date, Karen Hayzen-Smith will step..

Vodafone and Telefonica to commercialise UK’s largest tower company, Cornerstone

Vodafone Group Plc (LON:VOD) UK subsidiary, Vodafone Limited and Telefonica UK Limited has announced the commercialisation of Cornerstone Telecommunications Infrastructure Limited, the 50:50 owned joint venture company that owns and..

Entain’s CEO Shay Segev to step down to become co-CEO of DAZN

Entain plc (LON:ENT), the global sports-betting and gaming group, formerly known as GVC Holdings PLC, has announced that Shay Segev, Entain’s Chief Executive Officer, has given notice of his intention..

Smith & Nephew expecting a Q4 underlying revenue decline of approximately -7%

Smith & Nephew plc (LON:SN), the global medical technology business, has announced that it expects a fourth quarter underlying1 revenue decline of approximately -7%. Sales were impacted by increased rates..

JD Sports Fashion demand remained robust throughout the second half

JD Sports Fashion plc (LON:JD) has announced an update on performance following the Christmas trading period. Against a backdrop of further forced temporary store closures in many of our global..

Barratt Developments healthy forward sales position with over 90% sold for FY21

Barratt Developments plc (LON:BDEV) has issued a trading update in respect of the half year ended 31 December 2020 ahead of publication of its interim results on 4 February 2021...

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