Rolls-Royce offloads UK pension fund in £4.3bn deal with PIC August 10, 2025 Rolls-Royce has sealed a £4.3bn deal with insurance specialist Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) to offload its UK pension scheme as the engineering giant presses ahead with simplifying its balance sheet. The deal, which was announced on Sunday, covers the remaining pension obligations of 36,000 members — including 15,000 current pensioners and 21,000 deferred members — [...]
New Princes: Food giant gears up for £700m City listing August 10, 2025 International food operations giant New Princes is gearing up for a blockbuster listing on the London Stock Exchange – a move City officials hope will spark a wave of new flotations. The Italian-owned business – which makes Princes Tuna and produces Flora and Branston products – is approaching investors regarding the backing of an IPO [...]
Shares in Cola-Cola’s European bottling arms slump despite strong results August 6, 2025 Coca-Cola’s European arm, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, and its bottling partner, Coca-Cola HBC, both slumped on the stock exchange this morning after the former downgraded its revenue guidance. The European business fell more than 11 per cent in early trades on the London Stock Exchange, while the bottling business dropped more than seven per cent. Coca-Cola [...]
THG sells flavour lab Claremont for £103m August 6, 2025 THG, the London-listed firm behind fitness supplement brand Myprotein, has announced the sale of flavour manufacturing and development lab Claremont. The company will sell Claremont for £103m to international flavour specialist, Nactarome Group, having purchased the business for £52m in late 2020. City AM is part of THG Ingenuity, which was demerged from THG at the [...]
TP ICAP shares fall despite revenue growth August 6, 2025 Interdealer broker TP ICAP Group reported record revenue growth in the first half of the year, supported by strong broker productivity, cost control, and strategic diversification. The firm recorded adjusted revenue of £1.22bn, up seven per cent, driven by momentum in its global broking and Liquidnet divisions. The global broking arm was the business’s best [...]
Domino’s: Higher employment costs and slowing sales dampen profitability August 5, 2025 New store openings at Domino’s have been lower than expected as it franchisees struggle with lower profitability in a tough market. Just 11 stores have been opened in the year to date, with new openings in the full year expect to be in the mid twenties as franchisees becomes “cautious… given increased employment costs,” Domino’s [...]
BP shares jump after oil major ups dividend and launches buyback August 5, 2025 BP shares jumped on Tuesday despite the firm recording a hit to profit and revenue in the first half of 2025 as weaker oil prices and lower trading performance weighed on takings. The London-listed oil major posted total revenue of $95.6bn (£72bn), down from 2.7 per cent from the same previous last year, while profit [...]
FTSE 100 banks outperform but face tougher waters ahead August 4, 2025 The FTSE 100’s banking constituents breezed through the second quarter results season as interest income remained stable and trading income soared on the back of market volatility. The ‘Big Five’ banks of London’s flagship stock index – Barclays, HSBC, Natwest, Lloyds and Standard Chartered – pocketed a combined £12.8bn in the three months to June [...]
Watches of Switzerland shares slump as Trump ups tariffs August 1, 2025 Watches of Switzerland saw its share price drop more than seven per cent in early trade as investors shied away from the effect of Trump’s sweeping new tariffs. On Friday morning, Trump announced a new tariff rate of 39 per cent for Swiss exports to the US – higher than the initial ‘Liberation Day’ tariff [...]
FTSE 100 giants Rolls-Royce and Shell lead City market rally July 31, 2025 A fleet of corporate news helped the FTSE 100 edge up in early trading on Thursday with a number of rallies from the index’s heavyweights. Positive updates from Rolls-Royce and Rentokil helped London’s flagship stock market rise 0.5 per cent to 9.182.34 as markets opened. Rentokil topped the risers with a 11 per cent surge [...]