Finance News – Page 289
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NewsCherry family to buy back 50% stake in Countryside
Founding chairman Alan Cherry aims to buy £111m share from HBOS over next five years
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Credit crunch wipes 23% off house sales in October
Number of homes changing hands falls from 661 a day in 2006 to 510 this year
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NewsProfit rises 56% at McBains Cooper
McBains Cooper is set to report a jump in profit of more than 50% as it continues an ambitious drive for growth.
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Cherry family to buy back 50% stake in Countryside
Founding chairman Alan Cherry aims to buy £111m share from HBOS over next five years
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French contractors dominate European market
Vinci heads league with sales of £16bn – but no UK firms appear in the top 10
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£25m Sweett war chest
Consultant Cyril Sweett has built up a £25m acquisitions war chest, Dean Webster, the chief executive, revealed this week.
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Baqus on brink of following Sweett onto stock market
Quantity surveyor Baqus is set to become a plc in the next fortnight.
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NewsIt’s official: London is most expensive place on Earth to build
Rider Levett Bucknall report says that tender prices in capital will rise by 6-8% this year
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Atkins buys Derek Rogers' key assests
Atkins takes over street lighting consultants' customer contracts
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Capita upbeat about performance
Back-office firm says accelerated growth in 2007 means it will post strong full year results
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NewsMiller attacks Ernst & Young and claims rebels are split
Keith Miller takes his fight to keep company in hands of family to dissident shareholders’ adviser
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NewsTropus & Spicer becomes consultancy’s latest merger
Tropus and Spicer Partnership combine to create £4m-turnover practice
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Four take lion’s share of London fit-outs
Two architects and two contractors have dominated the capital’s fit-out market over the past three years, according to the latest annual league tables.
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Atkins buoyant after shedding weight of Metronet
Keith Clarke, the chief executive of Atkins, insisted that the Metronet debacle was behind it as the company posted a 46% rise in first half profit.
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Sharewatch Jarvis goes back into the dog house
There are few certainties in life perhaps, but along with death and taxes it may well be worth adding avoiding shares in Jarvis.
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Former National Express boss is appointed chairman of Kier
Phil White, a former National Express chief executive, has been appointed non-executive chairman of Kier, replacing Peter Warry who will step down at the end of this year.
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Jarvis loses another £3.3m
Rail contractor Jarvis has unveiled greater pre-tax losses than expected in its first half results, which it blamed mainly on uncertainty in its plant business.
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Profit leaps 55% as Renew focuses on engineering
Renew, the contractor formerly known as Montpellier, reported a 55% jump in pre-tax profit to £7.2m after growth in its specialist engineering and building divisions.
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NewsHyder Consulting acquires Voigt Ingenieure
Firm expands German business with acquisition of waste water and transportation consultant