Network Rail makes first profit
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Network Rail, which runs Britain's railways, is to announce profit for the first time of Â£747m.
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Supermarket giant Tesco sees first half profits jump 24.2% to Â£822m ($1.47bn) and said its sales of non-food items continues to grow.
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Quarterly profit beat expectations on strong growth in its international, ground and freight segments.
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UK utilities Severn Trent and Northumbrian Water both report an increase in annual pre-tax profits.
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Lucent Technologies Inc, the nation's leading telecommunications-equipment maker, recorded its first annual profit since 2000, fueled by rapid growth in its wireless telephone division, the company announced yesterday.
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Mining giant BHP Billiton reported a record first half-profit of 6.168 billion dollars, up from 4.364 billion in the same period the previous year.
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Royal Mail says it returned to profit at the underlying level during its first half and that it beat 7 of its 15 performance targets in the latest quarter.
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Networking and Linux vendor Novell reported a profit of $57.1 million for fiscal 2004 and said its Linux offerings are allowing the company to reach new customers.
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Telecommunications-equipment maker recorded its first annual profit fueled by rapid growth in its wireless telephone division. -The Washington Post
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The steel group Corus today announced pre-tax profits of Â£163m for the six months to the end of June - its first interim profits since its formation in 1999.
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China Telecom Corp., the listed arm of the nation&#39;s biggest fixed-line operator, said first-half profit rose 28 percent after it added networks and secured more users for a service that competes with mobile-phone companies.
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Britain's Cable & Wireless posted its  first net profit in over 3 years and announced plans to cut 600  jobs and return cash to investors, sending the telecom  company's shares racing to 5-month highs on Wednesday.
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Britain's Cable & Wireless posted its first net profit in over 3 years and announced plans to cut 600 jobs and return cash to investors, sending the telecom company's shares racing to 5-month highs on Wednesday.
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Telecom equipment maker Ciena of Linthicum, Md., yesterday reported its first profit in five years, a rebound for a company stung by a dismal industry downturn earlier in the decade.
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Australian airline Qantas posts a record fiscal first-half profit thanks to cost cutting measures.
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Cisco Systems has reported first-quarter profits of $1.4 on sales of $6 billion. Despite cautious spending by its corporate customers, softness in the global economy and a lingering uncertainty over whether
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No-frills airline Ryanair RYA.I has posted a forecast-beating jump in first-half profit after its low fares drew passengers over the summer, and it is more upbeat than