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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016
... industrial trends survey of total order book balance - which tracks changes in the level of factory orders in around 500 UK businesses across 38 sectors in the manufacturing industry - remained unchanged to a reading of minus 5 in September (in line ...

IRESS profit up 15%

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016
... products to new and existing customers is presenting revenue opportunities in the United Kingdom. The South African and UK businesses were negatively impacted by foreign exchange movements during the half.

Lift-off on Carney's mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
... Overall Index Score back to levels not seen since the late nineties or early days of the noughties." Not surprisingly, UK businesses are also optimistic.A While the Confederation of British Industry's economic composite indicator - a survey of over 750 ...

NAB workers demand profit share after 1172 job cuts

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013
... differentiates us from our competitors." The large number of job losses this year - which included 650 in NAB's UK businesses - may be a result of increased "rationalisation" and "automation" of the business. NAB chief executive Cameron Clyne said: "Over ...

NAB delays staff salary increases

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013
... past four years and has no near-term plans for large-scale offshoring. The poor performance of NAB's struggling UK businesses has seen the bank lag the blockbuster profits reported by its Big Four rivals CommBank, Westpac and ANZ in recent months. This ...

NAB confirms redundancies in wealth division

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2013
... strategy in March, NAB did confirm the departure of MLC head Steve Tucker. The poor performance of NAB's struggling UK businesses has seen the bank lag the blockbuster profits reported by its Big Four rivals CommBank, Westpac and ANZ in recent months. ...

NAB confirms fresh managerial changes

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013
... on simplification and digitisation," said a spokesperson for the bank. The poor performance of NAB's struggling UK businesses has seen the bank lag the blockbuster profits reported by its Big Four rivals CommBank, Westpac and ANZ in recent months. This ...

Aviva UK restructures insurance

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
... our brand and scale as the UK's leading insurer," said Mark Hodges, chief executive of Aviva UK. "By bringing our UK businesses closer together under a single and highly experienced leadership team we can serve our customers, partners and our people ...

NAB trims UK workforce by 1,700

... yesterday. After completing the sale of its Irish operations, Peacock said it was now focusing on making certain the UK businesses were more 'nimble' and customer focussed. The annualised savings from the restructuring initiatives are estimated at $285million. ...

AMP incurs $3.6 billion writedown on HHG demerger

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2004
... writedown on its HHG demerger, it said last week. AMP said in its explanatory memorandum for the demerger of its UK businesses late last year, it valued HHG at $3.2 billion which would result in a loss on demerger of $2.5 billion. It noted then that ...