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Ten-pin bowling operator Hollywood Bowl (BOWL) reported better than expected full year operating profits to 30 September of £28.4m,  up 14.3%, 5.5% like-for-like revenue growth and said it would pay a special dividend ...

Pub and hotels group Fuller Smith & Turner (FSTA) released first-half performance in-line with its unscheduled update on 21 November, when it flagged some transition problems resulting in flat operating profits of ...

The UK’s largest provider of social care and education services for adults and children, Caretech (CTH:AIM) delivered better than expected revenue and profits for the full year ended 30 September, lifting the shares ...

UK stocks opened on a weak note on Wednesday led by domestically-focused stocks on worries that the Conservative lead in the polls had reduced, opening up the prospect of a hung parliament. The FTSE 100 index was trading ...

Perceived as a sleepy and slightly secretive provider of innovative test and evaluation of military platforms to the Ministry of Defence, QinetiQ (QQ.) has transformed its commercial capabilities under chief executive ...

Asia Research & Capital Management, a privately-owned asset management firm based in Hong Kong, has built up one of the largest ever short positions (£132m) in the UK market, targeting oil firm Premier Oil ...

Naspers-owned Prosus has sweetened its all-cash-offer for food platform and delivery firm Just Eat (JE.) by 4% to 740p (710p), valuing the firm at £5.1bn, while at the same time reducing the threshold required to a ...

Packaging company DS Smith (SMDS) reported interim revenues up 3% in constant currencies to £3.2bn and adjusted operating profits up 14% to £351m for six months ended 31 October. However, the shares traded 2% lower ...

Café cum bars operator Loungers (LGRS:AIM) continued its expansion push in the first half with the doors flung open on 10 new sites (eight Loungers and two Cosy Clubs). This leaves the ambitious company on track for ...

Japan’s public pension fund GPIF, the largest in the world with $733bn of assets, will no longer allow shares to be loaned out from its global equity portfolio according to the Financial Times. Hedge funds and other ...