(Alliance News) - The following is a round-up of London-listed company director and manager changes announced in the past week and not separately reported by Alliance News: Read More
(Alliance News) - Character Group PLC on Friday said it anticipates maintaining sales and adjusted pretax profit at similar levels to the prior financial year, despite continued "challenging" market conditions. Read More
(Alliance News) - The following is a round-up of earnings for London-listed companies, issued on Wednesday and not separately reported by Alliance News: Read More
(Alliance News) - The following is a round-up of updates by London-listed companies, issued on Tuesday and not separately reported by Alliance News: Read More
(Alliance News) - Character Group PLC on Thursday said it was on track to beat full-year market expectations after reporting progress in the first half of the financial year. Read More
(Alliance News) - The following is a round-up of earnings and trading updates by London-listed companies, issued on Wednesday and not separately reported by Alliance News: Read More
Character Group PLC - Surrey, England-based toy, games and gifts maker - Announces share buyback programme worth up to GBP1.0 million. Says it will be funded from existing cash resources. Appoints Panmure Gordon (UK) Ltd as joint corporate broker to manage the programme and repurchase shares from Tuesday to the earlier of the day before its annual general meeting in 2025, or when the maximum aggregate value of GBP1.0 million has been reached. Read More
(Alliance News) - Stocks in London are called to open higher, ahead of a slew of construction purchasing managers' index readings from the eurozone, the UK and Germany. Read More
Character Group PLC - Surrey, England-based toy, games and gifts maker - In the first four months of its current financial year, says turnover is flat from a ear earlier, although it has seen an "improvement in profitability". Notes trading conditions across all of its markets have "remained challenging", with the cost-of-living crisis "impacting consumer spend/demand for the second successive Christmas". Says it has a "strong portfolio of products to offer the market, a robust balance sheet, with a net cash position and substantial unutilised working capital facilities in place". Says it continues to trade "satisfactorily" and expects profitability for the current financial year ending August 31 to be in line with current market expectations. Also confirms Richard King retires as chair following today's annual general meeting, as announced in December. He will be succeed by Independent Non-Executive Director Carmel Warren as non-executive chair. Read More
(Alliance News) - Character Group PLC on Tuesday warned that the customary boost from Christmas trading has materialised later than expected this year, as UK consumers grapple with cost of living pressure, prompting it to look overseas for growth. Read More
(Alliance News) - Character Group PLC on Tuesday said it expects full-year profits to be in line with expectations, following a strong second half. Read More
(Alliance News) - London's FTSE 100 is set to fall further on Tuesday, after a sell-off at the start of the week, with hawkish words from a US central banker reinforcing the 'higher-for-longer' interest rates messaging. Read More
SEEEN PLC - London-based social media services firm - Has hired Carmel Warren as chief financial officer, effective June 1. Warrel was CFO at data analytics company D4t4 Solutions PLC from 2015 to 2019, then CFO at retail management solutions developer Universe Group PLC from October, 2020 to April, 2021. She currently is a non-executive director at Fonix Mobile PLC and Character Group PLC. Warren has not been appointed to the board but will attend meetings as company secretary and non-board CFO. Read More
(Alliance News) - Character Group PLC on Thursday reported falls in profit and revenue in the first half of its financial year, saying trading conditions remained "challenging across all the group's markets", but predicted a stronger performance in the next six months. Read More