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Vodafone, the Newbury-based mobile phone group, took the honours in the large company section for share prices during May with an 11% rise following good annual results.
It announced revenues were up 10.1% to £42.2 billion and declared a final dividend of 7.62 pence, up 2.0%, giving total dividends per share of 11.22 pence.
“It has been a year of continued progress, culminating with a return to organic growth in Q4. We have seen increasing signs of stabilisation in many of our European markets,” said chief executive Vittorio Colao.
Vernalis, the Winnersh-based disease reseach group, topped the section for medium-sized companies with a 30% rise after gaining FDA approval for Tuzistra, its new cough-cold treatment.
It said market research indicates strong interest from prescribers of narcotic-based cough-cold products, with the US prescription market currently worth $3b and the narcotic segment $1.8b. It estimated peak annual sales potential could be in excess of $500m.
Star performance of the month, however, was among the smaller companies – a 51% rise by Slough- based Corac Group, the specialist engineering and support services company.
Corac has received its first commercial order from Spirax Sarco for its steam expander products, following a March announcement of a 10-year agreement for packaged steam products containing Corac's micro-turbines and compressors. Corac also announced a change of name to TP Group from June 3.
Large (over £1 billion) Closing price
VODAFONE GROUP GALLIFORD TRY SPECTRIS CENTRICA HALMA SKY
ICTL.HTLS.GP.
BIG YELLOW GROUP BG GROUP
GLAXOSMITHKLINE
30/04/15 231
1,506 2,147 255 713
1,077 2,804 668
1,183 1,515
Closing price 29/05/15 255
1,655 2,338 278 764
1,055 2,741 653
1,137 1,454
Medium (£250 million to £1 billion) Closing price
VERNALIS
OXFORD INSTRUMENTS ANITE
DAIRY CREST GENUS
PINEWOOD GROUP VITEC GROUP DE LA RUE
OXFORD BIOMEDICA SDL
30/04/15 51
930 85
457
1,347 473 655 550 11
468
KBC ADVANCED TECHS. TISSUE REGENIX GROUP OMG
VISLINK TT ELECTRONICS
REAL ESTATE INVESTORS LOK'N STORE GROUP ECKOH
30/04/15 99 19 42 53
134 62
286 38
ACCESSO TECHNOLOGY GROUP 600 SINCLAIR PHARMA
42
Sub £50 million Closing price
CORAC GROUP
JOHN LEWIS OF HUNGERFORD OXFORD TECHNOLOGY 3 VCT ENV.RCYC.TECHNOLOGIES OXFORD TECHNOLOGY 2 VCT GUSCIO
SOPHEON IMMEDIA GROUP MILESTONE GROUP RESOURCE HOLDING MAN.
30/04/15 4 1
48 0
12 8
78 26 1
10 THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – THAMES VALLEY – JULY/AUGUST 2015
Closing price 29/05/15 66
1,088 99
513
1,488 470 645 509 10
406
Small (£50 million to £250 million) Closing price
Closing price 29/05/15 118 20 45 57
141 61
283 38
587 39
Closing price 29/05/15 6 1
63 0
15 8
65 22 1 8
Change in share price 11% 10% 9% 9% 7%
-2% -2% -2% -4% -4%
Change in share price 30% 17% 17% 12% 10% -1% -2% -7%
-12% -13%
Change in share price 19% 7% 7% 7% 5% 0%
-1% -1% -2% -6%
Change in share price 51% 33% 32% 29% 25% -3%
-17% -17% -21% -26%
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Deloitte appoints new senior practice partner for the region
Deloitte has appointed Daniel Barlow (pictured) as the new practice senior partner for its offices in Reading, Southampton and Gatwick
Barlow, a tax partner, has been with the firm for over 19 years, spending significant parts of his career both in the South East and working in Deloitte’s central London offices.
He said: “The vast majority of my time will be spent advising our clients in the South East and ensuring that we are bringing them the best of Deloitte both globally and across our core service lines of audit, tax, corporate finance and consulting.
“The most exciting part of being a business adviser in our region is the diversity of businesses ranging from huge overseas-owned organisations, to fabulous privately-owned businesses.
"I’m really proud to lead the 800 people we have across our Reading, Southampton and Gatwick offices to make sure we give this community the best business advice it could possibly receive."
Barlow succeeds Graham Pickett, who remains with Deloitte as a vice chairman of the UK firm, focusing primarily on clients in the travel and aviation sector.
Pickett said: “I’ll remain very much a part of Deloitte and hand over leadership of our Reading, Southampton and Gatwick offices at a great time – our sense is that business confidence is good and that businesses across the south have some superb plans to do business both on a UK and global basis, so it’s a great time to be advising businesses in the south.”
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