Anthony Lugg

Bunzl looks set to keep up the pace on acquisitions, but those deals need to prove themselves

RESULTS: Despite a less than ideal consumer backdrop, fashion and furniture retailer Laura Ashley has delivered impressive growth

TIP UPDATE: Wetherspoon's low cost and broadened product offering has continued to deliver growth for the pub group

TIP UPDATE: Russian oil and gas play PetroNeft has described 2010 as a transformational year

RESULTS: Premier Farnell has enjoyed a considerable rerating of late - and a robust set of half-year figures help explain why

TIP UPDATE: Oil started flowing last year from Valiant Petroleum’s two Don fields, West Don and Don Southwest, in the northern North Sea, so the first-half results give a clearer picture of prospects.

RESULTS: Wound care specialist Advanced Medical Solutions has reported decent first-half trading and promised a maiden dividend for the year-end

RESULTS: Strong demand for the company's online catalogue of antibodies, proteins and peptides for research fuelled underlying sales growth of 23 per cent in the year, but management is taking a cautious line

RESULTS: The increasing forward sales visibility has been the big story at Craneware, which provides software to US healthcare companies to improve their billing

TIP UPDATE: And the company returns to profitability, producing operating profits of $11.2m in the first half