Northern Foods

Premier Foods in the fryer as secret sell-offs crumble

Over the past six weeks Britain's biggest food manufacturer has been urgently seeking a buyer for its RF Brookes food arm and Avana Bakery division. It was hoped a sale would reduce the firm's debt burden by £300m-£400m ahead...

Major Research Project Reveals Advances In School Healthy Eating, England

The culmination of a year's independent research has found that teachers, parents and pupils are benefiting from a dedicated healthy eating and physical exercise programme. More than half of the children involved in the...

Cranswick profit up 5 percent

LONDON (Reuters) - Premium pork supplier and pet food maker Cranswick on Monday beat analyst expectations with a 5 percent increase in first-half profit and said it believes cost pressures have peaked. The company which...

Northern Foods H1 revenue up

Northern Foods has reported total revenue of GBP468.6 million for the first 26 weeks of fiscal 2008/09 ended September 27, 2008, an increase of 6.8% compared to GBP438.6 million in the same period of fiscal 2007/08.

Northern Foods confident on recovery

Northern Foods’ shares rose 2p to 56p as the Fox’s biscuits, Goodfella’s pizza and ready meals group beat expectations with half year profits of £16.9m. Analysts had been expecting pre-tax profits, before exceptional items, at...

Need to know: Volvo, Cookson and oil prices

Economics House prices: The Department for Communities and Local Government said that house prices had fallen by 5.1 per cent in the year to September and also revised down its August reading on house prices to show a fall of...

Launch of scholarship scheme gives food for thought

12-Nov-2008

When Stefan Barden joined Northern Foods, one of his concerns was a lack of talent being developed in the group, writes Maggie Urry . The graduate recruitment programme had been axed, and there was a shortage of food...

London midday: Analysts warm to Tesco (ShareCast)

LONDON (ShareCast) - Lonmin (LSE: LMI.L - news) leads the sector lower. Lloyds TSB is sharply lower as threats emerge to its agreed take-over of HBOS (LSE: HBOS.L - news) . On the bright side, index heavyweight Vodafone (LSE:...

Northern Foods H1 hit by currency movements

LONDON, Nov 11 (Reuters) - British food manufacturer Northern Foods (NFDS.L: ) reported a decline in first half pretax profit on Tuesday, reflecting the adverse impact of currency movements and additional investment in the...

Hot small caps: Northern Foods up as beats consensus

LONDON (Reuters) - The following is a round-up of key small cap movers on the London stock market on Tuesday. 9:06 a.m. - Northern Foods up as H1 beats consensus Shares in Northern Foods rise 6 percent after the food...

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