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  • Pennon Group swings to loss in “extraordinary year” as pressure mounts on water industry

    Pennon Group

    Water company Pennon Group swung to a pretax loss in 2023 due to rising costs as the water industry faces pressure to clean up its act .  The owner of South West Water reported a pretax loss of £8.5m, swung from a profit of £127.7m last year as costs increased by over £100m in the [...]

  • Profits plunge for Pennon as inflation bites

    water works

    Profits dipped for Pennon this half year as inflationary pressures get the better of the water services group. Underlying profit before tax slumped 75 per cent compared to 2021 levels, reflecting the near-term pressures on earnings from inflation driven power pricing and financing costs. Profit before tax was £20.9m for Pennon, down from £79.9m in [...]

  • Women now dominate boards of top three water firms, with five-out-of-six CEO and chair positions held

    Closing the gap

     Women now dominate the boards of water companies, with five out of six heads taking up the roles.  The majority of chief executives and chairs for the three FTSE-Listed water firms,  Severn Trent, Pennon and United Utilities, are now held by women. This comes after  Louise Beardmore was promoted to chief executive at UU, succeeding [...]

  • Water firms turn on taps with £2.7bn investment pledge

    July 15, 2021

    The UK’s water companies will pour a total of £2.7bn into environmental improvements over the next five years, it was announced this morning. On top of £1.9bn of pre-planned spending, sector regulator Ofwat has this morning approved an extra £793m of investment. The watchdog said that the additional spending would “allow water companies to take [...]

  • Water firms slammed over ‘unacceptable’ environmental performance

    July 13, 2021

    Southern Water and South West Water have this morning been slammed over their environmental record, which the sector watchdog called “consistently unacceptable”. According to the Environment Agency’s latest annual report into the UK’s water firms, no single company hit all the targets laid out for the 2015-2020 period. Although pollution incidents declined for the second [...]

  • Pennon turns on the taps with £425m Bristol Water deal

    June 3, 2021

    Utilities firm Pennon this morning announced that it had bought Bristol Water for £425m as it consolidates its position as the south-west’s largest water company. Alongside the deal the FTSE 100 firm said that it would pay out a special dividend of £1.5bn to shareholders, as well as kick off a £400m share buyback. Shares [...]

  • Pennon eyes acquisitions as it sits on £3bn cash pile

    March 30, 2021

    Water utility firm Pennon today said it was eyeing acquisition opportunities as it expects to end the financial year with over £3bn of cash. The firm said it had established a sustainable capital structure as it continued a review of growth opportunities benchmarked against a return of capital to shareholders. The FTSE 250 firm said [...]

  • FTSE reshuffle: Who’s in and who’s out of London’s blue-chip index?

    March 3, 2021

    FTSE reshuffle: Who's in and who's now out of London's blue-chip index?

  • KKR makes surprise bid for Pennon’s recycling arm

    January 12, 2020

    Pennon’s bin collection and incineration firm Viridor has been the subject of a shock bid from US private equity fund KKR, in an attempt to knock out the competition before an expected auction process. Viridor is set to be one of 2020’s most keenly fought acquisitions, with a number of companies said to be interested [...]

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