Dillistone Share News (DSG)

Hochschild Chairman increases stake ahead of proposed acquisition

Eduardo Hochschild, the Executive Chairman of Hochschild Mining, whose great uncle founded the Peruvian mining and cement-focused group, this week grew his already sizeable stake with the purchase of a further 16.9m shares. Paying 155p a share, Hochschild spend a total of £26.2m, although this wou

DIRECTOR DEALINGS: Dillistone Group Non-Executive Sells Shares

Dillistone Profits Up As Both Businesses Performs Strongly; Raises Dividend

Tuesday broker round-up UPDATE

African Barrick Gold: Liberum Capital upgrades to hold with a target price of 147p. Amec: UBS reduces target price from 1200p to 1145p downgrading from buy to neutral. Compass Group: Investec ups target price from 900p to 925p and keeps a buy recommendation. CVS Group: Investec takes target price

Dillistone Chairman boosts stake by 178,485 shares

The Chairman of Dillistone, an AIM-quoted supplier of software for the international recruitment industry, has added to 178,485 shares to his stake in the company, it was announced Thursday. Mike Love, purchased the shares at 178,485 at 81.5p each, costing him £145,465. The transaction takes his s

Dillistone to buy Woodcote Software

AIM quoted software supplier for the recruitment industry Dillistone announced that it will acquire Woodcote Software and has raised £500,000 through a placing of 694,445 new ordinary shares at 72p each. Woodcote is a non-trading holding company and owns Voyager Software, which sells software produ

Dillistone in line

Executive search software provider Dillistone says that its 2010 figures will be in line with expectations. The full year figures are expected to be published on 5 April. Edison Investment Research expects the AIM-quoted company to report a rise in profit from £1.08m to £1.15m. That is still below

Wednesday tips round-up: Aviva, Reckitt Benckiser, Stagecoach...

Having spurned the unwanted attentions of Royal & Sun Alliance, Aviva has produced a moderately positive set of third-quarter numbers which suggest that Aviva was right to resist its rival's rather ill-judged attempt to push it into selling its general insurance business. On valuation grounds, Avi

Small caps round-up: Pan Pacific, Hotel Corporation, Dillistone

Revenue has started to roll in at quarry operator, Pan Pacific Aggregates, helping reduce first half losses. The British Columbian firm had revenues of £0.17m at the interim stage, having earned no revenue in the first half of last year. Meeting its targets of improved production and generating re

London close: Footsie bounds ahead

London's blue chips moved forward again with miners and resource stocks driving the index upwards ahead of the Easter break. Footsie is now up by over 6% since the start of the year and by 45% over the past 12 months. Miners and oil companies were lifted as manufacturing activity accelerated in C

Dillistone makes fast start to 2010

Recruitment software firm Dillistone said it met expectations with its 2009 results, which saw performance in the second half top both the preceding half-year periods. Revenue in 2009 eased to £3.65m from £4.60m in 2009, but recurring revenue rose 4.4% to £2.34m, and now represents 64% of total tur

London close: Footsie comes off highs

Footsie reached levels not seen since 2008 in afternoon dealings, but the gains dwindled after a poor start in the US and the leading share index finished just a few points in the blue. Banks led the way after an upbeat trading update from Lloyds Banking Group. Lloyds will be profitable on a combin

London afternoon: Footsie at 21 month high

Footsie marked time over the lunch time session after hitting levels in the morning session not seen since June 2008. Banks continue to lead the way after an upbeat trading update from Lloyds Banking Group. Lloyds will be profitable on a combined businesses basis in 2010, chief executive Eric Danie

London midday: Defensives left behind

Risers outnumber fallers by around four to one among FTSE 100 constituents as the market continues to enjoy a sentiment boost from an impromptu and upbeat trading update from Lloyds Banking Group. Lloyds will be profitable on a combined businesses basis in 2010, chief executive Eric Daniels claimed

Dillistone chairman and FD McLaughlin departs

Recruitment software supplier Dillistone has announced the departure of executive chairman and finance boss Jim McLaughlin with immediate effect. Mike Love, existing non-executive director and chairman of both SciSys and ClearStream Technologies, will take on the role of non-executive chairman. Bo