Welcome to the week ahead, our summary of the forthcoming key company announcements. Companies are no longer obliged to notify the London Stock Exchange (LSE) of results and trading updates, so this list does not claim to be comprehensive. You can read company announcements at http://announce.ft.com and our daily online news summaries record all key company announcements and business press headlines.
Monday 8 September
Final: Dechra Pharmaceuticals
Trading statement: Associated British Foods
AGMs: Bacit, Creston
EGMs: B.S.D. Crown
Companies paying dividends: BT Group (7.5p), Fenner (4p), Japan Residential Inv (1.8p), Utilico (1.875p)
Tuesday 9 September
Interims: HaloSource, Hilton Food Group, Safecharge International, Synety Group
Finals: Abcam, Hargreaves Services, ISG
Trading statements: Dixons Carphone, Fenner, Whitbread
AGMs: Oxford Instruments, Pets At Home
Economics: BRC sales, Trade figures, Industrial production, Manufacturing output NIESR GDP estimate (August)
Companies paying dividends: Entertainment OnLine (1p)
Wednesday 10 September
Interims: Alkane Energy, Accesso Technology, Alliance Pharma, Belvoir Lettings, Corero Network Security, Kingfisher, Optimal Payments
Finals: Barratt Developments, McBride, Thorntons
Trading statements: London Stock Exchange, Sports Direct International
AGMs: BATM Advanced Communications, Greene King, Hornby, Mwana Africa, Sports Direct International
EGM: London Stock Exchange
Companies paying dividends: Bacit (2p), Mulberry (5p), Unilever (22.53p)
Thursday 11 September
Interims: Futura Medical, Next, William Morrison
Finals: Ashmore, Dunelm, Ricardo
Trading statements: Darty, Home Retail Group, Ocado
AGMs: Accsys Technologies, Daejan Holdings, Darty, Entertainment One Group, Ortac Resources, Schroder Real Estate Investment
EGM: Lonmin
Economics: RICS house prices
Companies paying dividends: Fresnillo (special) (2.958p), Informa (6.4p), Jarvis Securities (4.25p), Rio Tinto (56.9p)
Friday 12 September
Final: JD Wetherspoon
Trading statement: SThree
AGMs: Anite, Sacoil Holdings
Economics: Construction output
Companies paying dividends: 4imprint (6.2p), BG Group (8.47p), Carnival (14.88p), Creston (2.7p), Direct Line Insurance (4.4p), Direct Line Insurance (special) (10p), Energy XX1 (Bermuda) (0.12p), Jiasen International (1.5p), Jupiter Primadona Growth Trust (1.6p), Latchways (27.5p), Law Debenture Corp (4.7p), Lindsell Train Inv (563p), Lindsell Train Inv (special) (113p), Midas Income & Growth (1.4p), Moneysupermarket.com (2.31p), Pearson (17p), RM (0.96p), Spirent (0.99p), Sweett Group (0.8p).
Shares going ex-dividend on 10 September
| Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
| Admiral Group Ord 0.1p | 49.4 | 10 Oct |
| APR Energy Ord 10p | 3.3 | 10 Oct |
| Arrow Global Group | 1.7 | 9 Oct |
| British Assets Trust Ord 25p | 1.53 | 10 Oct |
| Cape Ord 25p | 4.5 | 10 Oct |
| Centaur Media Ord 10p | 1.7 | 10 Oct |
| Churchill China Ord 10p | 5.1 | 3 Oct |
| Clarke (T.) Ord 10p | 0.5 | 10 Oct |
| Clarkson Ord 25p | 21 | 26 Sep |
| Colefax Ord 10p | 2.2 | 9 Oct |
| Communisis Ord 25p | 0.67 | 9 Oct |
| Concurrent Technologies Ord 1p | 0.65 | 26 Sep |
| Dart Group Ord 5p | 2.14 | 17 Oct |
| Darty | 2.625 | 3 Oct |
| Elementis Ord 5p | 1.588 | 3 Oct |
| G4S Ord 25p | 3.42 | 17 Oct |
| Goodwin Ord 10p | 42.348 | 10 Oct |
| H & T Group Ord 5p | 2.1 | 10 Oct |
| Holders Technology Ord 10p | 1 | 7 Oct |
| Land Securities Group Ord 10p | 7.9 | 10 Oct |
| Rank Group Ord 10p | 3.15 | 22 oct |
| Rathbone Brothers Ord 5p | 19 | 8 Oct |
| Savills Ord 5p | 3.75 | 13 Oct |
| Standard Life Ord 10p | 5.6 | 21 Oct |
| STV Group | 2 | 14 Oct |
| Swan (John) & Sons & Ord 25p | 5 | 10 Oct |
| Temple Bar Inv Tst Ord 25p | 15.5 | 30 Sep |
| Tex Holdings Ord 10p | 2 | 6 Oct |
| Treatt Ord 2p | 1.24 | 17 Oct |
The ex-dividend date is the first day on which it is no longer possible to buy the shares and qualify for the dividend. Ex-days are almost always a Wednesday. The record date is usually two days after the ex-date. The payment day is the day on which the funds are transferred to shareholders.
