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quoted company's performance, professional users of financial information can assess how companies are likely to perform and decide which companies meet specific financial criteria.
Wenham Major smaller
quoted company lunch: left to right are chair of discussion John Crabtree, Wenham Major's John Edwards, who sits on the accounting standards committee of the QCA, and alliance chief executive John Pierce at Opus restaurant in Birmingham
We're talking here about a a publicly-
quoted company with ambitions towards winning the European Cup and the Championship.
If Standard Life became a
quoted company, it would have to be run for the benefit of shareholders - and not the people who had bought their policies.
Stock in BP, which is the UK's biggest
quoted company and accounts for about 10% of the value of the FTSE 100 Index, fell nearly 2% during the morning.
AIM
quoted company Tanfield Group plc announced on April 28 that it intends to raise a further pounds 5.5m, before expenses, through an institutional placing of new shares.
The UK's fourth biggest building society yesterday promised their investors 250 free shares on the conversion into a
quoted company on the Stock market.
Then, the
quoted company, formed in 2000, was in dire straits after major bookmakers decided to put on ice plans to take up an in-running betting service and the administrator had been called in to pick over the pieces.
Far from it, as the average price/earnings ratio at which stakes are acquired is 8 times annual profits, half the average rating for a successful
quoted company.
Measured by market value, Sage remains the second largest
quoted company in the region and, with Northern Rock carries the flag for the North-East in the FTSE 100 Premier League.
LONDON-BASED
quoted company Leisure & Gaming is on the lookout for a new non-executive chairman, after Phillip Parker told the annual meeting that he will step down at the end of the year.
ONE of the UK's first big privatisations was recalled yesterday on the 20th anniversary of British Telecom becoming a publicly
quoted company.
