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Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2004
Daily Mail, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 20--SUGAR GETS SWEET EM@ILER MESSAGE: Amstrad has sold another 100,000 em@iler devices since slashing the price seven weeks ago, taking the total sold above 400,000, the Mail can reveal. Chairman Sir Alan Sugar, widely criticised when he launched the product four years ago, collects a UKpound 280,000 dividend cheque. The shares rose 9 1/4 pence to 185 pence -- valuing Sir Alan's 23 percent stake at UKpound 34 million.
HALF MEASURES: Building materials group Hanson saw annual profits halve last year to UKpound 137 million pretax after hefty "exceptional" costs, including pension fund top-ups and US asbestos-related lawsuits. But dividends rise 10 percent to 16.95 pence, and the group...
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