Out of school childcare market worth £400m

The first financial mapping of the UK out of school childcare market has found it to be worth an estimated £395m at 2005, with...

CEC interim results

Creative Education Corporation’s (CEC) unaudited interim results for the six months ending 31 January 2006 show that turnover has more than doubled to £3.8m...

Standard Life members to vote on demutualisation

The board of Standard Life has recommended that its members support its proposed demutualisation and flotation on the London Stock Exchange. The Group has...

Steady performance at AXA PPP

The UK’s second largest insurer AXA PPP has reported solid results for the year ended 31 December 2005, providing further hard evidence that the...

Profits up at Affinity

Affinity Hospitals Ltd (formerly Affinity Healthcare) has reported very profitable growth in its statutory accounts to June 2005. Turnover increased by 20% to £27.3m...

The Retreat improves

The Retreat York increased its income to £7.5m for the year ended 31 December 2004 from £6.9m the previous year.The Retreat is a Quaker...

Simple, efficient business systems are possible with new technology

Great gadgets and glitzy gizmos might be some people’s idea of technical heaven – but for the majority of business users, IT systems must...

Royal Bank in billion pound deal

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has reportedly paid £1bn for a portfolio of 294 of Southern Cross Healthcare’s residential and nursing homes in...

Hg Capital takes Paragon

Following last month’s hiccup in the sale of learning disabilities care provider Paragon Healthcare, with the vendor’s repeat request for offers from interested parties...

SENAD for sale?

SENAD, the chain of residential schools for children and young adults with special educational needs, is to be put up for sale by its...