Company
LON:MSLH
Established in the late 1880s, Marshalls is the UK's leading manufacturer of superior natural stone and innovative concrete hard landscaping products, supplying the construction, home improvement and landscape markets. The Group operates its own quarries and manufacturing sites, as well as 12 service centres and 14 offices throughout the UK Marshalls is traded in the ISDX Exchange HERE
71 stories · page 2 of 4
Builders and building materials
The union said that in the past 18 months many companies - including profitable ones - have attempted to use the pandemic as an excuse to fire and rehire the workforce on reduced pay
Values of dealers such as Marshall Motors have risen to five-year highs
Builders and building materials
Domestic revenues rose 9% in the second half but the much larger Public Sector & Commercial business declined 6%
Builders and building materials
The paving group laid off 15% of its employees and permanently closed certain sites
Builders and building materials
Revenue for the six months ended June 30 dropped 25% to £210mln
Builders and building materials
“We are reopening our plants as demand returns,” the paving slabs maker said
Builders and building materials
“Our operational planning continues to be dynamic and capable of reacting to the changing environment”
Builders and building materials
After a 14% jump in first-half profits and a “strong” start to the second half, chief executive Martyn Coffey and his team are “increasingly confident of at least achieving its expectations for 2019”
Builders and building materials
Berenberg’s analysts said that with Marshalls’ shares up 44% since December - 28% in the year-to-date - and now trading on 20.4 times 2019 price/earnings, they believe the stock is now “fairly valued”
Builders and building materials
Sales are up 16% in the first two months of 2019, boosted by the acquisition of concrete brick maker Edenhall
Archive
Footsie closed around 26 points higher at 7,185, while FTSE 250 added around 103 points at 19,283
Archive
Brexit and the latest vote will likely be the main talking point, but there will be financial results too!
Peel Hunt said it upgraded all ratings for Ferguson PLC, Keller Group PLC, and Volution Group PLC to ‘add’ from ‘hold’
Builders and building materials
The landscaping group said it was focusing on acquisitions in parts of the market where higher levels of growth were anticipated, including new build housing, road, rail and water management
Builders and building materials
Marshalls said recent trading has been "very strong" with June and July revenues up 21% against the previous year
Builders and building materials
Snow and ice shut the group's factories for a number of days and saw a drop in sales to domestic customers
President Donald Trump decided to abandon a key Iran nuclear deal, sending oil prices higher
Archive
Day Ahead includes trading updates from pubs operator JD Wetherspoon and bakery chain Greggs, plus interims from blue chips cigarettes firm Imperial Brands and travel group TUI
Archive
Aside from the latest Bank of England interest rate decision, the week ahead includes updates from Wm Morrison Supermarkets, Next, BT Group, ITV, and William Hill ...
Builders and building materials
As well as Fenner, Murray sits on the board of Bunzl PLC, a FTSE 100 packaging group, and Redrow the housebuilder
