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Cobham buys Tyco radio unit
Purchase of M/A-Com takes group’s US acquisition spree to more than $1bn this year
Greggs revenue growth slips
Weather rather than price rises blamed for disappointing sales over March and April
ENRC walks away from Kazakhmys offer
The prospect of the birth of a Kazakh national mining champion appeared to recede after ENRC walked away from an indicative £7bn takeover offer for rival Kazakhmys
Premier to relaunch Hovis
Premier Foods share rose in early trading following news that that sales had risen and it expected better progress going forward
VT close to £4bn MoD deal
The contract to build two Royal Navy aircraft carriers will safeguard 10,000 jobs in Britain’s maritime industry
UK commercial property in doldrums
Development sinks to lowest level in five years owing to crisis in financing building work and doubts over outlook for occupier market
Fast food boom lifts Enodis
Underlying profits up 9 per cent to £32.9m on revenues up 8 per cent to £395m amid resilient growth in US
A&L writedowns bigger than expected
The bank revealed that the impact of the credit market downturn had cost it nearly £400m in the first four months of the year, but said it had secured funding in the wholesale markets into the second quarter of 2009
BAA replaces Heathrow chief
Mark Bullock, managing director of Heathrow airport since November 2006, has become the first senior executive to leave BAA since the appointment of a new group chief executive
Northern Foods closes plant supplying M&S
Northern Foods has opened consultations with the 730 employees at its Fenland Foods factory in Grantham to close the site, which makes Italian-style ready meals for M&S
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