Company News in Brief

Interim results to 30 June

Graham, the recently floated builders' merchant, increased taxable profits from pounds 7.3m to pounds 9.1m. Earnings per share were 5.3p (4.3p) and the maiden dividend, a third of the expected full-year total, was 1.75p.

Bridon, the wire rope maker, made taxable profits of pounds 3.3m ( pounds 1.1m). EPS 5.1p (1.6p). Dividend is 1.25p.

Delaney, the furniture maker and shopfitter, made a taxable profit of pounds 232,000 compared with a loss last time of pounds 187,000. EPS 0.2p (LPS 0.2p). No dividend.

Select Industries, the tyre maker, made a taxable loss of pounds 2.3m against a loss of pounds 889,000. Loss per share 1p (0.4p). No dividend.

Life Sciences, the laboratory equipment supplier, made pre-tax profits of pounds 13.2m ( pounds 10.3m). EPS 5p (4.4p), dividend 1.6p (1.4p).

Other news

Roxspur, the playground equipment supplier, made interim taxable profits of pounds 120,000 for the half-year to 31 May compared with a loss last time of pounds 125,000. EPS 0.4p (LPS 0.9p). No dividend.

Shorco, the construction services group, made taxable profits of pounds 306,000 in the year to 31 December ( pounds 80,000). EPS 6.6p (1.7p), dividend 2.7p (2.4p).

Fairey, the electronic engineer, has bought the US firm Imaging Technology for dollars 13.9m ( pounds 9m).

Oxford Molecular, the research company, has paid pounds 5.2m for Intelligenetics, a US firm. Oxford lost pounds 933,000 before tax in the half- year to 30 June, compared to a loss of pounds 488,000. LPS 3.5p (4.4p). No dividend.