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 on at http://announce.ft.com and our daily online news summaries record all key company announcements and business press headlines.
Monday 8 October
Trading statements: Cranswick, Michael Page International, Vedanta Resources
AGM: Cambium Global Timberland
EGM: InterContinental Hotels
Tuesday 9 October
Finals: dotDigital, Utilitywise
Trading statements: Hays, May Gurney, XP Power
Economics: British Retail Consortium sales data (September), Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors house price figures, Industrial production figures, Manufacturing output figures, Trade figures, National Institute of Social and Economic Research GDP estimate (September)
Wednesday 10 October
Trading statement: Ferrexpo
AGMs: IPPlus
Thursday 11 October
Finals: Air Partner, WH Smith
Trading statements: Ashmore, Burberry, e2v technologies, Greggs
AGMs: Angle, Goodwin, Monitise
Friday 12 October
Trading statements: Computacenter, Hargreaves Lansdown, Travis Perkins
Shares going ex-dividend on 10 October
| Company | Dividend(p) | Payment |
| Amiad Filtration | $0.051 | 31 Oct |
| Balfour Beatty | 5.6 | 07 Dec |
| Begbies Traynor | 1.6 | 07 Nov |
| British & American Inv Tst | 2.7 | 08 Nov |
| Cenkos | 3.5 | 15 Nov |
| Cobham | 2.4 | 09 Nov |
| CPL Resources | €0.035 | 05 Nov |
| Haynes Publishing Group | 9.5 | 31 Oct |
| Hays | 1.67 | 16 Nov |
| Hydrogen Group | 1.5 | 09 Nov |
| Invesco Leveraged High Yield Fund | 1.25 | 31 Oct |
| Johnson Service Group | 0.36 | 09 Nov |
| Keller Group | 7.6 | 01 Nov |
| Kingfisher | 3.09 | 16 Nov |
| Murgitroyd Group | 8.5 | 23 Nov |
| Murray International Trust | 9.0 | 15 Nov |
| Nationwide Accident Repair | 1.9 | 5 Nov |
| Pacific Horizon Inv Tst | 1.5 | 02 Nov |
| Penna Consulting | 1.0 | 08 Nov |
| Randall & Quilter Inv Hldgs | 3.4 | 07 Nov |
| Rightmove | 9.0 | 09 Nov |
| SIG | 1.0 | 07 Nov |
| Smith & Nephew | 6.38 | 30 Oct |
| Spirax-Sarco Engineering | 16.0 | 09 Nov |
| Statpro Group | 0.8 | 07 Nov |
| TP70 2008 (I) VCT | 1.35 | 19 Oct |
| TP70 2008 (II) VCT | 1.34 | 19 Oct |
| Travis Perkins | 8.0 | 12 Nov |
| Unite Group | 1.0 | 09 Nov |
| WPP | 8.8 | 12 Nov |
| Yule Catto & Co | 2.2 | 08 Nov |
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.
