Industry Developments
BMI's company analysis model helps us make explicit those companies that we see as likely to outperform from a share-price perspective. This model is based around four key elements:...
2012-05-18United Kingdom
Irish drinks firm C&C is once again being talked up as a possible takeover target, with multinational brewers Carlsberg and SABMiller said to have run a ruler over the firm. The...
2012-05-17United Kingdom
Irish drinks firm C&C is once again being talked up as a possible takeover target, with multinational brewers Carlsberg and SABMiller said to have run a ruler over the firm. The...
2012-05-17United Kingdom
BMI View: Drugmakers and governments will increasingly enter agreements to provide some form of risk sharing or price protection for new drugs. As governments focus on cost containment...
2012-05-16Italy
Italian dairy firm Parmalat has posted net sales growth of 5.9% for the first quarter of 2012. The growth was broad-based with revenues up by 2.2% in Italy, 4.1% in the rest of Europe,...
2012-05-15Italy
Italian dairy firm Parmalat has posted net sales growth of 5.9% for the first quarter of 2012. The growth was broad-based with revenues up by 2.2% in Italy, 4.1% in the rest of Europe,...
2012-05-15United Kingdom
UK supermarket operator J. Sainsbury has posted steady full-year results in the face of a tough economic backdrop. For the 12 months to the end of March, Sainsbury's registered a 6.8%...
2012-05-10China
State-owned Chinese food group Bright Food has purchased a 60% stake in UK breakfast cereal maker Weetabix from private equity firm Lion Capital. The deal values the business at GBP1.2bn...
2012-05-03United Kingdom
BMI View: The UK government's focus on cost-containment within the healthcare sector, and in particular pharmaceutical spending, highlighted by a decline in NHS pharmaceutical expenditure...
2012-04-20France
French food giant Danone has reported overall like-for-like sales growth of 6.9% in value terms and 2.2% in volume terms for the first quarter of 2012. The firm reported strong growth...
2012-04-18



