This website uses cookies to store information on your computer. Some of these cookies are used for visitor analysis, others are essential to making our site function properly and improve the user experience. By using this site, you consent to the placement of these cookies. Click Accept to consent and dismiss this message or Deny to leave this website. Read our Privacy Statement for more.
News & Press: Headlines

Weir Group Expected To Make Bid for FTSE Listing

Monday, August 2, 2010  
The Herald - Glasgow engineer Weir Group will make a bid for early promotion to the prestigious FTSE 100 share list of the UK’s biggest companies on Tuesday when chief executive Keith Cochrane is set to announce news of surging profits and to flesh out ambitious new growth targets.

Directors believe that the package should help underpin the group’s soaring popularity in stock markets where its share price has virtually doubled since the departure of former boss Mark Selway last autumn to give it a stock market value of £2.5 billion. More...