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Xpediator "is highly investible in our view" says Zeus

Investegate announcements from Xpediator PLC, Directorate Change

Investegate announcements from Smiths News PLC, Result of 2022 Annual General Meeting

In the past two years, most of the UK’s largest construction firms have unveiled targets for cutting carbon emissions. However, with a distinct lack of standards, they can be tough to compare. Zak Garner-Purkis investigates In 2014, Interserve set itself a “big, hairy, audacious goal” – or BHAG, as ex-finance director Tim Haywood liked to call it. The BHAG would see the contractor halve its carbon emissions by 2020 and, to achieve it, Haywood would do something unprecedented: as well as being Interserve finance director, he would also act as its head of sustainability. The problem fo...

  The Board acknowledges the following voting outcomes from today's meeting: • the "significant votes" in excess of 20% that have been cast against the Board's recommendation for each of resolution 2 (to approve the directors' remuneration report for FY2020) and resolution 12 (the directors' general authority to allot shares); • the failure to pass resolution 14 (the disapplication of further pre-emption rights in connection with an acquisition or specified capital investment), primarily as a result of the votes cast by two of the Company's shareholders; and ...