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Melrose Industries

  • FTSE 100 close: Blue chip index ends higher as disappointing retail sales figures fail to dent JD Sports, Frasers and Burberry

    FTSE close

    London’s FTSE 100 index closed the week marginally higher, clawing back some some of this year’s earlier gains following a poor performance yesterday.  The capital’s premier index climbed 0.3 per cent to 7,770.59 points, while the domestically-focused mid-cap FTSE 250 index rose 0.7 per cent to close at 19,702.63. JD Sports, Frasers and Burberry were [...]

  • Melrose to break up Britain’s oldest engineering firm via GKN automotive spin-off

    Demerger on the cards

    Melrose Industries confirmed this a.m. plans to spin off the GKN automotive business in a move that will see Britain’s oldest engineering firm broken up. Turnaround specialist Melrose, which bought GKN in a controversial £8bn takeover in 2018, said it will demerge GKN’s automotive and the smaller powder metallurgy divisions from its aerospace arm into [...]

  • Melrose shares pop as firm returns to profit

    Melrose shares pop as firm returns to profit

    Shares in industrialist Melrose jumped 5.0 per cent this morning as the FTSE 100 firm returned to profit after the pandemic. For the first half of the year the firm company that it had made an operating profit of £223m, back in the black after an £11m loss a year ago. Revenue crept up to [...]

  • Engineer Melrose warns chip shortage could slow its growth

    May 6, 2021

    Engineering firm Melrose warned that the global shortfall in semiconductors would have an impact on its growth in 2021. The FTSE 100 company said that sales over the first four months of 2021 were 8.0 per cent higher than last year, with operating margins having recovered quicker than expected. But, the GKN owner cautioned that [...]

  • Melrose Industries to sell Nortek air conditioning unit for £2.62bn

    April 19, 2021

    Melrose Industries said on Monday it has agreed to sell its Nortek Air Management business for £2.62bn and will distribute a portion of the funds to shareholders. The British engineering firm said it plans to use part of the proceeds, which will come from Chicago-based buyer Madison Industries, to cut debt. It added that the [...]

  • FTSE 100 jumps on post-lockdown hopes but Wall Street flat

    April 6, 2021

    London’s FTSE 100 climbed by 1.4 per cent today as prospects of a planned re-emergence from lockdown next week boosted shares. The capital’s premier index currently stands at 6,840, its highest levels since 11 January. Across the Atlantic, however, the mood was more subdued, with Wall Street’s main markets flat at the open this afternoon. [...]

  • GKN owner Melrose starts unit sale as annual profit plummets

    March 4, 2021

    Melrose Industries said on Thursday it had begun processing the sale of its Nortek air-conditioning division as the company posted a steep fall in annual profit. The company, which owns jet and car parts supplier GKN, said Nortek is trading “very strongly” and that there was no guarantee a sale would take place. Melrose’s adjusted [...]

  • Melrose shares get a boost despite GKN job cuts and car industry warning

    September 5, 2019

    Takeover specialist Melrose Industries this morning predicted the downturn in the global automotive industry will persist until at least the end of the year, but enjoyed a jump in shares as it allayed investor concerns about the effect the industry’s struggles were having on its own business. Melrose’s market value rose five per cent this [...]

  • GKN slashes 1,000 jobs as owner Melrose moves turnaround plan up a gear

    September 3, 2019

    GKN Aerospace, one of Britain’s oldest industrial manufacturing companies, has announced plans to cut 1,000 white collar jobs, in a bid to make it a “coherent business”. The firm was bought by Melrose last year for £8.1bn after an ill-tempered takeover scrap, with the buyer promising to boost profits at the former blue-chip firm.  Read [...]

  • Melrose moves into red after GKN takeover, but shareholders remain undeterred

    March 7, 2019

    Acquisition specialist Melrose Industries fell into the red in 2018 after the £8bn takeover of aerospace parts group GKN, but shares rose five per cent on Thursday morning investors were buoyed by strong underlying profits. The FTSE 100 firm, which specialises in buying and improving underperforming businesses, said the hostile takeover of GKN had helped [...]

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