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Strong performance from foods businesses will compensate for more challenging trading in Dairies division, says Dairy Crest Group, the UK's leading dairy foods company. In its pre-close trading update for the year ending 31 March 2012, the group said its cost cuts were on track to meet its annual savings target of £20 million.

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British sweeteners and starches maker’s shares have risen almost 40 percent since summer of 2011.

The specialty food ingredients and solutions group, Tate & Lyle has reported a strong performance for the fourth quarter which is in line with its expectations driven by the robust growth in speciality food ingredients sales volumes.

Driven by higher volumes and sales growth across all product categories, Tate & Lyle Plc, the provider of specialty food ingredients and solutions, expects profits for the FY 2011 to be more heavily weighted towards the first half than usual, mainly due to the exceptionally strong performance from co-products during the first half.

In spite of tough trading conditions, the clothing retailer, Moss Bros Group has continued to make great progress in turning its business around and reported a rise of 2.5 percent in its full year like-for-like sales.

Despite difficult economic conditions, Hilton Food Group, has reported a rise of 13.6 percent in its full year revenue to £981.3 million, up from £864.2 million in 2010, which was driven by the new facility in Denmark and the recovery of higher raw material meat prices.

Bristol-based company gains three percent in half-year sales.

Imperial Tobacco Group, the world's fourth-biggest cigarette maker, is focused to deliver excellent growth in earnings and also believes that it is well- placed to build on its success.

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With over 200 brands in 180 countries and more than 30 million customers, TUI Travel, the leisure travel company expects to see greater share of online bookings in 2012 and is scheduled to release its pre-close trading update on Thursday.

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Domino's Pizza UK & Ireland, the holder of the master franchise for Domino's Pizza Inc, remains in good health and ready for the challenges ahead to deliver another successful year of growth.

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A G Barr, the manufacturer, distributor and seller of soft drinks, expects like-for-like total sales in the final quarter to be more than 12 per cent ahead of the previous year and said it is on track to meet expectations for 2012.

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NEXT PLC, the Britain's second-largest clothing retailer, has delivered a solid performance in sales and profits combined with exceptional advances in earnings per share and dividends even in a difficult year.

Kingfisher, the home improvement retailer, has reported a rise of 3.3 percent in its sales for the FY 2011 on a constant currency basis and rose 3.6 percent to £10.8 billion on a reported rate basis sales.