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Tesco reinstated its dividend after a three-year hiatus with a 1p half-year payout as sales rose more than City forecasts and profits soared, beating forecasts. Revenue in the 26 weeks to 26 August of �28.3bn was 3.7% higher than the same period last year and ahead of the consensus estimate of �27.6bn. UK like-for-like sales were up 2.2%, which was down from 2.3% in the first quarter, behind some analyst expectations. First-half adjusted operating profit before exceptional items of �759m was up 27.3% and also beat the �703m consensus, while statutory profit before tax rose almost 8x to �562m. Earnings per share of 5.21p were back to respectability after the breakeven 0.42p a year ago, while some of �1.1bn of retail operating cashflow enabled a 25% reduction in net debt to �3.3bn. The PENSION DEFICIET also halved to �2.4bn from �5.5bn in February, and the half triennial pension review was concluded with annual contributions increasing by �15m to �285m from April 2018.

Witless: Always good to hear AGAIN what happened in the 7 years before Dave Lewis arrived, yawn, Zzzz BTW, I recall your snide remarks to those who had lost a packet in 'highly risky' JLP. just before you bought in - hoping history repeats itself.

WITless: Luckily dividends are not going to be a problem for AIM tiddler, JLP, who have never paid any, where you are in over your head & back to what you paid after about 6 months of smoke & mirrors from the BOD.

Have been created by a decade of low /zero interest rates that is now coming to an end, according to BOE guidence, who signal 2 rate rises by April & steadily rising after that due to consumer spending inflation. The Lack of Bank interest is why we are all in the Stockmarket in the first place :)

3 of 4 brokers plump for 1p interim in Oct/Nov & 2p final in April, with a BOD promise to increase div.payments over time.

BJ: In fairness, I am sure you would wish to add Aldi, SBRY & M & S to supermarkets affected, before WITless pitches in with another rant :)

You may be surprised to learn a lot of us have no desire to que all night to spend hundreds on a 'Dick Tracy' gimmick watch at twice the price you would pay in the US. Nor would it be the reason millions of our Third World customers choose VOD.

Danny: Ask yourself why Short Tracker shows MRW 15% on loan & TSCO 2% approx. Your comments indicate biased, pre-formed opinions rather than an open mind. 'A man convinced against his will, is of the same opinion still', so knock yourself out :)

[28 Sep '17 07:06]Britain's biggest tobacco distributor is on the brink of securing the future of its 4,000 workers after two giant cigarette-makers agreed to pump in millions of pounds of emergency funding. Sky News has learnt that Imperial Brands and Japan Tobacco International (JTI) have pledged to provide financial support to Palmer & Harvey (P&H) in order to enable it to conclude a takeover by Carlyle, the buyout firm The bridge funding provided by the two tobacco giants, which own brands including L&B and Silk Cut, will last for several weeks, allowing Carlyle to undertake due diligence on P&H while it remains solvent, insiders said. Tesco may agree to sign a further 2 yr supply deal with P&H to help the deal, but it is JTI & IMB. who are owed money, not us.

Believe that when Petra get their parcel of diamonds back...

WITless: Your snide Tesco rants seem to coincide with plunges in JLP, where I suspect you are un-wisely over-invested.

If you think someone else should stand in the dock, why not name them & make a complete fool of yourself, you are teetering on libel already. No one else has been charged & people are innocent NOT 'innocent' until proven guilty.

- for the 3rd year in a row. Berstein's Bruno Monteyne ' In our view Aldi's profit drop reflects the success Tesco has had, in particular with Farm Brands during 2016. This has put pressure on pricing in Aldi's core product range & encouraged customers back to Tesco'

If Labour win the next election & we have a Marxist Chancellor you will get nothing - it will be Game Over for the Stock Market & the UK.

In the coming year, Aldi plans to invest £459m, as it builds 70 new stores. That’s far more than the UK subsidiary could afford simply by reinvesting local profits – it marks a deliberate and expensive push by the parent company. Yet Aldi and Lidl wouldn’t be the first retailers to expand too fast, only to fall victim to a sudden change in consumer tastes. Who’s to say Aldi won’t one day say the same about their current period of expansion? The obvious danger is online, an arena in which neither Aldi nor Lidl have meaningfully contended. If the sluggish shift to online groceries shopping accelerates – particularly if driven by Amazon – it’s not hard to see how it might leave Aldi and Lidl with serous egg on their face. Then there could be a legal ruling or post-Brexit regulation covering very-similar-looking packaging, which could upend Aldi and Lidl’s private label strategy. We shouldn’t therefore take Aldi and Lidl’s growth for granted.

LONDON, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Aldi UK and Ireland reported a 17 percent fall in 2016 operating profit on Monday, a third straight year of decline, reflecting its strategy of maintaining a price gap over larger rivals as well as investment in infrastructure.

WITless AIM stocks have always been the first to tank in any kind of FTSE downturn, (flight from risk) of course JLP may have unique qualities to stand out from the herd, but I don't think you can eat Platinum. You have been droning on about the importance of a Div. - what decade will JLP start paying one or doesn't it matter for YOUR penny stocks?

WITless:Luckily you can rely on your div. from AIM tiddler, JLP - whats that Sooty? NO Div.? ? & never paid one! lol

The Mail on Sunday says most Brokers expect an interim payment of 1p next month & a total of 3p for the year ending April '18. The compo payments will come to thousands for me & I have said previously, I won't be selling any 'till I've banked the div.

IMO, div. will be more than a token 1p & similer to what BOK pay, afterall,we will need their votes on the merger. AllAdrift: "moneyback guarantee' is not a figure of speech for Employee scheme but a FACT. I have never mentioned an SP of 300p, I don't do predictions.