The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
The green crusade against disposable plastic bags has failed to halt growth at Bunzl, the supermarkets to housebuilders supplier, after it reported a 4.5pc increase in pre-tax profits.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Mike Roney loves to shop. Bunzl's American boss seems to have had time to do little else over the past 18 months.
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
BUNZL, the packaging and outsourcing group, said the "green" drive by retailers to reduce plastic bag usage had failed to dent its UK business.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Specialist distribution group Bunzl will continue to make overseas acquisitions despite the sluggish global economy and higher fuel costs, it said, after posting an expected 10 percent rise in first-half profit.
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
The support services group announced a 5 per cent rise in pre-tax profits to £93.8m, after higher interest charges, reflecting debt taken out to finance deals
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- British distribution firm Bunzl Plc on Tuesday said first-half net profit rose 4% to 63.5 million pounds, or 19.8 pence a share, from 60.9 million pounds, or 18.1 pence a share, earned in the year-earlier period. Sales climbed 14% to 1.96 billion pounds, helped by solid organic growth and recent acquisitions. The company lifted its interim dividend by 11% to 6.45 pence a share....
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
Bunzl is looking to bypass the credit crunch by sticking to the time-tested strategy that saw it re-enter the FTSE 100 earlier this year. The distributor came back...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
BUSINESS services group Bunzl has bought family-owned personal protection equipment maker A&E Russell for an undisclosed sum.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
Distribution and outsourcing giant Bunzl has announced solid growth in sales helped by the euro and a strong presence in food-related businesses.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
That is frankly the only problem for potential investors. The group depends on the US Department of Defense for about 50 per cent of overall revenues, and with spending in Iraq and Afghanistan having increased hugely in the past few years, the group has done well. The chief executive, David Price, says it does not matter which of the two presidential candidates wins, and that the group does not explicitly...
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
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Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
chinadialogue has recently published speeches on climate change by Barack Obama and John McCain, the two leading candidates for president in the November 2008 US elections. Here, Martin Bunzl comments on the plans. If you are going to eat a sausage, people say, you don’t want to see how it is made. (Although that is not something that directly affects me, as a vegetarian.) The same can be said of the...
OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Newly published articles: American Anthropologist March 2008, Vol. 110, No. 1, pp. 53-60 Posted online on May 8, 2008. (doi:10.1111/j.1548-1433.2008.00008.x) The Quest for Anthropological Relevance: Borgesian Maps and Epistemological Pitfalls MATTI BUNZL Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL 61801 Concepts: sociocultural anthropology, positivism, Boas, Geertz,...
Express & Echo (Free subscription) | 03/14/2008
A city tribunal has been hearing how a verbal spat between two employees ended with them scuffling on the floor in the firm's canteen. Delivery driver Andrew Blyth, 44, told the hearing he was in the kitchen at Bunzl's UK Ltd, of Sowton, when ...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 02/26/2008
PACKAGING group Bunzl met forecasts with a 3 per cent rise in 2007 profits yesterday, driven by strong internal growth and acquisitions, and said it would seek further dea
