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 9 March
Interims: Abcam, Gemfields
Finals: Clarkson, Hansteen Holdings, Prudential, WPP
Companies paying dividends: Fenner (8p)
Tuesday 10 March
Interims: Close Brothers, Craneware
Finals: Bango, Cairn Energy, esure, G4S, Goals Soccer Centres, Hill & Smith Holdings, Inchcape, IP Group, John Menzies, Matomy Media, One Media iP Group, SDL, StatPro, Synectics, Tyman
Trading statement: Ocado
AGMs: Ecofin Power & Water, Imagescan Holdings
EGM: Circle Oil
Economics: British Retail Consortium, like-for-like sales
Companies paying dividends: Neptune Calculus Income & Growth (special) (5p)
Wednesday 11 March
Interims: Brooks Macdonald, Ceres Power
Finals: Alkane Energy, Bwin.Party Digital, Centaur Media, FDM Group Holdings, Foxtons, Hikma Pharmaceuticals, Megafon, Michael Page International, Restore, Servelec
Trading statement: N Brown
EGM: Synergy Health
Economics: Industrial production, Manufacturing output, NIESR GDP estimate (February)
Companies paying dividends: Ideagen (0.055p), JPM Russian Securities (13p), Shoe Zone (3.6p), Unilever (21.77p)
Thursday 12 March
Finals: Cineworld, Computacenter, SIG, SOCO International, Stock Spirits Group, TT Electronics, William Morrison
Trading statements: Asos, Home Retail
Economics: RICS house prices, Trade figures
Companies paying dividends: Jarvis Securities (3.75p)
Friday 13 March
Interim: JD Wetherspoon
Final: Luxfer Holdings
Trading statement: SThree
EGM: Standard Life
Economics: Construction output
Companies paying dividends: Carnival (16.2p), Entu (special) (1.5p), Foresight VCT (6p), Fusionex International (2.1p), Murgitroyd (4.25p), Qatar Investment Fund (2.158p), Seneca Global Income & Growth (1.4p), Zytronic (7.16p)
Shares going ex-dividend on 12 March
| Company | Dividend (p) | Payment |
| Avesco Group Ord 10p | 4.5 | 8 Apr |
| BHP Billiton | 40.1 | 31 Mar |
| BlackRock Inc. Strategies Trust | 1.5 | 10 Apr |
| British Assets Trust Ord 25p | 1.5 | 10 Apr |
| Crest Nicholson | 10.2 | 8 Apr |
| Dechra Pharmaceuticals | 5.12 | 7 Apr |
| Dunelm Group Ord 1p | 5.5 | 10 Apr |
| Eco Animal Health Ord 5p | 1.75 | 7 Apr |
| F&C UK Real Estate Inv | 1.25 | 31 Mar |
| Foresight 3 VCT | 2 | 27 Mar |
| Hammerson Ord 25p | 11.6 | 24 Apr |
| Hargreaves Lansdown Ord 0.04p | 7.3 | 10 Apr |
| Haynes Publishing Group Ord 20p | 3.5 | 8 Apr |
| JPM Global Emerg. | 1 | 22 Apr |
| Land Securities Group Ord 10p | 7.9 | 10 Apr |
| LPA Industries Ord 10p | 0.85 | 2 Apr |
| MTI Wireless 11s | 0.44 | 2 Apr |
| Perpetual Income & Growth Inv Tst | 2.8 | 27 Mar |
| Randgold Resources | 38.8 | 29 May |
| Safestore Holdings Ord 1p | 5.3 | 8 Apr |
| S&U | 19 | 10 Apr |
| Shire Plc Ord 5p | 12.51 | 14 Apr |
| Standard Life UK Smaller Cos Tst | 1.4 | 7 Mar |
| Stewart & Wight Ord 5p | 7 | 8 Apr |
| Temple Bar Inv Trust | 23.33 | 31 Mar |
| Wilmington Group | 3.7 | 2 April |
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 Thursday. The record date is usually one day after the ex-date. The payment day is the day on which the funds are transferred to shareholders.
