EuroInvestor.co.uk (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
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Irish Golf Desk (Free subscription) | 31/08/2008
Eamonn Darcy shared fifth place as England’s Gordon J. Brand closed with a two under par 70 to win his second European Seniors Tour title in the space of seven days at the Travis Perkins plc Senior Masters at Woburn Golf Club. The previous weekend Brand needed six extra holes to see off the challenge of Gordon Brand Jnr at the De Vere PGA Seniors Championship at Slaley Hall but this time he birdied...
Property investments (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
WICKES and Tile Giant owner Travis Perkins today reported a 3.2 per cent fall in pre-tax profits and warned it expects markets to weaken further. The DIY and building supplies ... Source: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk (AFX UK Focus) 2008-07-16 09:52 Land Securities stops short of postponing three-way demerger plan UPDATE (Interactive Investor) (re-casts lead; adds comments from conference call; analysts'...
Property investments (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
The news about Cape Verde being a property hotspot is no longer news in and of itself. Its status as an emerging mark... Source: news.assetz.co.uk Profits fall at Travis Perkins - The Independent Travis Perkins warned that the housing market will deteriorate further, as it posted a drop in first half pre-tax profits yesterday. But the company expects to continue to gain ... Source: www.independent.co.uk...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008
Travis Perkins warned that the housing market will deteriorate further, as it posted a drop in first half pre-tax profits yesterday.
Independent.ie - European RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008
British building materials group Travis Perkins said market conditions were more challenging and expected to weaken further in 2008 -- with the warning overshadowing first half profits that beat consensus market expectations.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Building materials group Travis Perkins reported on Wednesday a dip in first-half profits, but which beat market expectations as it gained market share in its merchanting and retail divisions.
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
The building supplies company said it would reduce its headcount from planned levels as it reported a falling pre-tax profits
Independent.ie - European RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
WOODIES DIY owner Grafton Group should consider a €1.4bn merger with the UK's Travis Perkins in a move that could create over €500m of synergies, according to a senior Dublin analyst.
Cornish Guardian (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Thieves towed away a large shredding machine after breaking into the Travis Perkins site on the Trenance Industrial Estate in Wadebridge.
Crewe blog (Free subscription) | 28/06/2008
Not really part of the Cheshire Year Of Gardens, but still a great project undertaken by Wulvern Housing, residents from the Sherborne estate off Middlewich Street, Royal Mail workers, Kebble Heath Construction, Travis Perkins, PET Tool Hire, Scanlan’s and Taylors Choice. Some derelict land on the Sherborne was turned into a community garden in just two days. Blog readers will have seen Wulvern under...
computing (Free subscription) | 17/06/2008
Neon Kelly, Computing , Tuesday 17 June 2008 at 06:30:00 An IT overhaul from Logicalis guarantees a recovery time of four hours for business-critical systems Builders merchant Travis Perkins has improved its disaster recovery capability through a complete overhaul of its IT infrastructure. The company contracted technology supplier Logicalis to integrate two disparate datacentres, following...
SignalBlog (Free subscription) | 16/05/2008
MSCI Barra said it will add 14 new companies, including Cairn Energy, Baloise, Hannover Re and Eutelsat to its MSCI Europe index and will make 110 deletions. The changes will be effective from May 30, it added. The group said the top 10 deletions included Volvo, APRR, Yell, Ciba, Travis Perkins, ARM Holdings, Kesa Electricals, Signet Group, [ Read more... ]
Times Online (Free subscription) | 13/05/2008
Travis Perkins, the builders merchant and owner of the Wickes chain, has put a virtual freeze on hiring and halved its spend on store expansion as a decline in trading gathers pace in its DIY stores.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Travis Perkins, the do-it-yourself retailer, has announced the acquisition of Toolstation, a rival chain founded by Mark Goddard-Watts, founder of Screwfix.
