Total sales and operating profit growth of India's top 10 listed consumer companies such as HUL, ITC, Dabur, Titan and Asian Paints have declined considerably in the past year and the trend could well continue for the next couple of quarters at least as the slowdown and high inflation force consumers to cut back on spending. It is not just sales growth, but also operating profit which has been on continuous decline over the past six quarters. Sales growth for the December 2013 quarter for Read more [...]

A school has had to rely on £100,000 of lottery funding to repair its crumbling main building - because it only gets £27,000 a year from the Government to maintain its whole site.Impington Village College’s Grade I listed “architectural gem”, which was designed by German architect and founder of the Bauhaus design movement Walter Gropius, has “significantly deteriorated” around the front of the main hall in the last year.The reliance on the college to secure non-Government Read more [...]

Doncaster Council has granted Listed Building Consent to provide energy efficiency improvement works to 30 properties in Woodlands. The works are part of the Decent Homes programme which has seen other properties in the area upgraded. These properties in Woodlands are Grade II Listed Buildings, for which consent is necessary.The proposed works include the installation of combi-boiler heating systems, loft insulation, replacement of windows to timber frame double glazed, Read more [...]

Doncaster Council has granted Listed Building Consent to provide energy efficiency improvement works to 30 properties in Woodlands. The works are part of the Decent Homes programme which has seen other properties in the area upgraded. These properties in Woodlands are Grade II Listed Buildings, for which consent is necessary.The proposed works include the installation of combi-boiler heating systems, loft insulation, replacement of windows to timber frame double glazed, Read more [...]