DS Smith, the UK-based international packaging manufacturer and
office products wholesaler, has announced improved interim results
for the six months to 31 October 2002.
Enodis, the UK-based food equipment provider, suffered a share
price fall of more than a quarter yesterday after it said that
current weak market conditions were likely to persist "further
than we had originally expected".
Sidel, the French manufacturer of machinery for bottle producers,
is expected to return to profitability in 2002, after last year's
€47.5 million net loss.
DS Smith reported lower profits for the year to April as a recovery
in its packaging business was more than offset by lower profits in
office products wholesaling business
The UK government has expressed "cautious optimism" that fish
factories put into receivership by the financial problems of the
Albert Fisher Group can be saved.
