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• Of Britons Burdened with Draughty Homes and Rising Heating Costs. Energy Services Into a Pounds 1bn Turnover Company

What car do you drive? BMW X5 What's your greatest fear? Going grey, but that has now become reality Tennis, badminton and lots of walking on the telephone What's your favourite restaurant? What's your most irritating habit? Rendezvous in Ponteland What's the best piece of business advice you have ever received? Surround yourself with people better than you Who or what makes you laugh? Walking around when I am on the phone. I can"t sit still and take calls Michael McIntyre What's your biggest extravagance? The family What's your favourite book? And the worst? I rarely read books, usually newspapers Always be the last in the office What's your poison? Which historical or fictional character do you most identify with or admire? What was the last album you bought? Ice cold lager Progress, ...

• The Journal
• August 08, 2011

• Relentless Battler Whose Eye for Detail Is Finally Paying Dividends ; Interview Ian Livingston Bta Decade Since He Arrived, the Bt Boss has Cut Costs but Now He Needs to Boost Turnover

IT isn't hard to work out where Ian Livingston's natural caution stems from. Such have been the dramas in a decade at the top of BT, first as finance director and for the last four years as chief executive, he has learnt the importance of underpromising and over- delivering. "The moment a company starts believing it has some God- given right is the moment it gets into trouble," warns the Glaswegian, knocking the froth from a lunchtime cappuccino as he looks out from his office over St Paul's. Even so, Livingston admits today that his telecoms group is the fittest it has been on his watch. Now all he must do is keep it at the front of the digital revolution.

• Evening Standard - London
• May 11, 2012

• Macaroon Maker Lees Produces a Tasty Turnover Despite Rising Costs

RISING commodity prices are eating into Lees Foods' profits as higher coconut, cocoa and sugar costs continue to put the iconic macaroon maker under p...

• The Scotsman
• July 29, 2011

• Firm Reports Better Turnover Despite Costs ; Business Today: Packaging

INTERNATIONAL packaging firm SIG Combibloc reported a rise in turnover for the year ending December 2009, but its pre-tax profit was squeezed by higher operating costs. The company, whose registered UK office is in Houghton-le- Spring, said its turnover was pounds 41.2m for the 12-month period, compared to pounds 38.1m the previous year. It said the rise was achieved through "favourable exchange rate impact".

• The Journal
• April 23, 2010

• Auchrannie Puts Focus On Investment

AUCHRANNIE Holdings, the family-owned company behind the eponymous hotel and leisure complex on the Isle of Arran, is staying in the black amid the economic turmoil and continuing to invest for the future. The firm's accounts, which have just become available from Companies House, show it achieved a rise in turnover from pound(s)4.47 million to pound(s)4.84m in the year to March 31 2011. Pre-tax profits dipped from pound(s)464,111 to pound(s)232,788, as its rates bill jumped by pound(s)37,000 following a revaluation of rateable value based on turnover, and as wages and heat, light, and power costs rose.

• The Herald
• January 07, 2012

• Rising Costs Hit Profits at Walkers Despite Hike in Turnover

RISING flour prices and other "record" raw material costs will squeeze this year's profits at Walkers Shortbread, the biscuit and cake maker has warne...

• The Scotsman
• October 10, 2011

• Wenger: I've No Time for Losers Cos We Can Be.. Champions

Arsenal v B'ham Saturday, KO 3pm ARSENE WENGER has hit out at big spenders Manchester City by insisting Arsenal can win trophies this season without losing pounds 175million. The Abu Dhabi-owned club announced losses of pounds 121m this month after revealing just their wage costs exceeded turnover.

• Daily Mirror
• October 14, 2010

• Hearing Aid Firm's Turnover Doubles After Acquisitions ; Pounds 375k Losses 'Due to Costs of Integrating New Companies'

HEARING aid and mobility products specialist DHAIS almost doubled turnover in the past year - but made a loss of pounds 375,000. The Cardiff-based firm, which is listed on the Plus Market, said it achieved turnover of pounds 4.8m compared with pounds 2.5m the year before.

• Western Mail
• December 12, 2009

• Shares in Bpi Climb 8% As Profits Surge

SHARES in British Polythene Industries (BPI) yesterday surged by almost 8% after the Scottish plastic bag and packaging specialist defied tough global trading conditions and increases in raw materials costs to post a jump in both profit and turnover. Greenock-based BPI, one of the great survivors of the Scottish industrial sector, yesterday also told The Herald it was investing pound(s)15 million in the business this year.

• The Herald
• August 31, 2011

• Finance Group in Profit Dip ; Bristol-Based Finance Group Jelf Group Announced Yesterday Its First-Half Pre-Tax Profits Had Been Hit by Higher Costs Even Though the Company's Turnover Rose by 49 Per Cent.

Bristol-based finance group Jelf Group announced yesterday its first-half pre-tax profits had been hit by higher costs even though the company's turnover rose by 49 per cent. But the company added that its outlook remained positive for the rest of 2008.

• Western Daily Press
• June 07, 2008