House prices fell at their fastest annual rate for nearly three years last month, the latest survey from Nationwide building society showed this morning. Prices have now declined in four of the past five months, the Swindon-based lender said. The fall of 0.7% in July means prices are now 2.6% lower than they were...
More than a quarter of South West law firms are at risk of going out of business over the next year as they face the combined challenges of the impact of the recession and the introduction of far-reaching reforms. The warning comes from R3, the trade body for insolvency professionals, which estimates that more...
Monday July 30 INTERIMS Banco Espirito Santo SA N Shs, Eramet SA, Fidessa Group, Hiscox Ltd., HSBC, Keller Group, Reckitt Benckiser Group, Ultra Electronics Holdings Q1 Ryanair AGMS China Private Equity Investment Holdingd Ltd. (DI), Griffin Mining Ltd., Kingswalk Investments Ltd, National Grid UK ECONOMIC ANNOUNCEMENTS CBI Distributive Trades Surveys (11:00) Consumer Credit (09:30)...
Building society Nationwide has admitted an error which meant 704,426 of its account holders had money taken from their accounts twice. The Swindon-based finance group said a “one-off human error” had led to the double payments. Payments made on Tuesday were processed again yesterday in error, it confirmed Accounts would now be corrected overnight....
Wincanton, the Chippenham-based logistics group, is on the road back to profitable growth, its chief executive said today. The group plunged to a £75.5m first half loss, which it blamed on lower volumes in a tough market. But in its interim management statement today, chief executive Eric Born outlined a number of new business...
Downbeat economic figures out today confirmed that the UK has slipped further into recession. Official figures from the Office of National Statistics for the second quarter of this year show economic output fell by a worse-than-expected 0.7%. Britain tumbled into a second recession in four years at the end of last year and since...
Monday July 23 INTERIMS Dialight, Domino's Pizza Group, Hammerson, Microgen, XP Power Ltd. (DI) AGMS Aurum Mining, Bloomsbury Publishing, Eco City Vehicles, Ensor Holdings, MobilityOne Ltd., Noventa Ltd, Pan Pacific Aggregates, Polar Capital Holdings, SerVision TRADING ANNOUNCEMENTS Dragon Oil Tuesday July 24 INTERIMS APR Energy, Croda International, CSR, International Personal Finance, Man Group, Norsk...
Monday July 16 INTERIMS SThree Q2 Norwegian Property ASA FINALS SnackTime EGMs EnQuest AGMs DQ Entertainment, Papua Mining Tuesday July 17 INTERIMS Amino Technologies, Computacenter FINALS IG Group Holdings, Schroder Real Estate Investment Trust Ltd AGMs BTG, Dairy Crest Group, ETF Securities ETFX S-Net ITG Global Agri Business Fund USD, Investec Structured Products Calculus...
A new venue for business events has been launched in Swindon by chartered accountants Banks. The firm relocated from Old Town to Stratton in April and has decided to use the refurbished offices in Ermin Street to hold business events, including seminars and networking. It kicked off the series with a talk recently to...
South of England car parts distributor Camberley Auto Factors, which has branches in Swindon and Chippenham, has today been acquired by larger Northern distributor Andrew Page for an undisclosed sum. Hampshire-based Camberley has 26 sites in the South, including depots on Swindon’s Cheney Manor industrial estate and Bumpers Farm in Chippenham, while Andrew Page,...
