Look back in disbelief

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SmithKline Beecham's LYMErix should add up to $500 mill a year of new revenue by 2005. The company also over 50 other medicines in various stages of clinical trial, some of which are potentially much bigger than LYMErix. However the company only added 8% to pharmaceutical sales in 1998, and analysts in 1996 believed SKB would make around 25p of earnings in 1998, whereas the figure was 20.3p, from which is deducted the 9.3p exceptional loss on the sale of DPS. SKB's share price was 344p in 1996, but it is currently over 800p.

SmithKline Beecham Corp. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), SBH, Earnings per share

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Magnolia: back in the frame

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Magnolia is a UK producer of picture frames which hasseen a drop in its share price following a profits warning. The company also imports frames fromoutside the UK. Magnolia has been affected by a slow moving UK housing market. Thecompany reported a pre-tax loss of 2.4 million pounds sterling for its operations in Ireland andthe UK for 1994. Costs will be reduced by bringing two operations into a single site. Thecompany's non-UK sales are performing well, and borrowing should be reduced by real estatesales.

All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing, Picture Frames, Magnolia

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BG joins the party with mega buy-back

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BG plans a stock buy-back which the company argues is geared to cutting capital costs for Transco, BG's distribution division. BG's profit could be reduced by 20% if proposals by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission are accepted. BG is to reduce staff levels by 2,500 jobs. The stock buy-back will be put to stockholders for approval in Oct 1997 and it is scheduled to be carried out in Nov 1997. Not all analysts see the buyback as related to reducing costs.

Natural Gas Distribution, Gas Production and Distribution, Gas Distribution, United Kingdom, Securities, Gas industry, BG

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