Pretax profit slides at Cookson Group

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Cookson Group PLC posted a decline of 15% in its pretax profits for 1998. This figure came before exceptional costs and amortization items. For the year, the company posted 151.3 million pound sterling ($244.5 million) over the 1997 year. Cookson is a electronics, ceramics, and engineering group based in the UK. The company's pretax profit figures are stated before 81.5 million pound sterling in exceptional costs.

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Posts decline of 15% in its pretax profits for 1998

Primary nonferrous metals, not elsewhere classified

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Cookson's profit declines 19%, but meets views

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Cookson Group PLC posted a decline of 19% in its pretax profits for the first-half of 1999. The company's profits were what analysts had expected. Cookson posted 64.5 million pound sterling (96.7 million euros) in profits in the period. Analysts predicted approximately 65 million pound sterling for the industrial materials company. Cookson's figures were at the high end of what analysts had forecasted.

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Posts decline of 19% in pretax profits for first-half of 1999

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Cookson to issue new debt, withhold investor dividend

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Cookson Group PLC has secured a multicurrency revolving credit facility worth 740.1 million euros. The company also said that it would not file a dividend payment to stockholders in 2002.

Receipt of funds, Pottery, Ceramics, and Plumbing Fixture Manufacturing, Pottery and Related Products, Ceramics & Related Products, Planning, Electrical equipment and supplies industry, Electric equipment industry, Dividends, Ceramic products, Ceramic industry

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