(Reuters) -Britain’s Heathrow Airport reported record passengers for the third quarter of 2025 on Wednesday and said it expected full-year numbers to surpass 2024 levels, as it continues to invest in infrastructure and prepare for long-term expansion. The airport handled 23.4 million passengers in the three months to September, including more than 8 million in …
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By Dimitri Rhodes and Olivier Cherfan (Reuters) -Dulux paint maker AkzoNobel slightly lowered its 2025 outlook on Wednesday amid persistently uncertain market conditions, and said it was planning further asset disposals after completing the sale of its Indian unit. Dutch supplier of paints and coatings now sees adjusted core earnings (EBITDA) of around 1.48 billion …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Average house prices in the United Kingdom in August were 3.0% higher than a year earlier, down from an upwardly revised annual increase of 3.2% in July, the Office for National Statistics said on Wednesday. Growth in property prices slowed sharply in recent months after hitting a two-year high in March when homebuyers …
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(Corrects to specify revenue lines in paragraphs 5-6) FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Germany’s Adidas on Tuesday raised its operating profit guidance for the full year, saying it successfully mitigated part of the extra costs caused by higher U.S. tariffs. The sportswear brand predicted a 2025 operating profit of about 2.0 billion euros ($2.3 billion), up from a …
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WARSAW (Reuters) -Polish state-controlled coal company JSW cannot get a refund of the 1.6 billion zlotys ($412 million) that it paid into a fund to offset higher energy prices, the country’s finance minister said on Wednesday. The company’s shares were down 4.6% at 0840 GMT. To mitigate the effects of soaring energy prices after Russia’s …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -German logistics firms are under pressure heading into 2026, a year in which only slight growth of 0.5% year-on-year in real terms is expected, according to a forecast published by the industry association BVL on Wednesday A group of logistics experts presented for the first time three different scenarios instead of a single …
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By Dominique Patton (Reuters) -Shares in French cosmetics giant L’Oreal plunged as much as 7% on Wednesday, after the company reported weaker-than-expected third-quarter sales and provided little reassurance that it could outperform the market in coming quarters. The company posted sales of 10.3 billion euros ($12.01 billion) for the three months from July to September, up …
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(Reuters) -Britain’s Halfords reported on Wednesday a 4.1% rise in like-for-like first-half sales and stuck to its annual outlook, helped by growth in both its retail and car maintenance businesses, and sending its shares up 7% in early trade. The bicycles and car parts company said like-for-like sales rose 4% at its retail business and …
By Mathias de Rozario and Jerome Terroy (Reuters) -French car parts supplier OPmobility reported a 1% fall in third-year revenue on Wednesday, impacted by negative currency effects and temporary shutdowns of some clients’ plants in Europe. The group’s revenue came in at 2.72 billion euros ($3.17 billion) for the third quarter of the year, down …
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By Marta Frackowiak (Reuters) -Swedish steelmaker SSAB’s earnings grew more than expected in the third quarter, helped by a so far limited tariff impact and despite a cautious mood in the European steel market pressured by cheap imports from Asia. Operating earnings rose 50% to 1.87 billion Swedish crowns ($198.61 million) in the July-September period, …
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