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Addeco Europe's leading employment agency delays 2003 results due to 'accounting issues'

J Sainsbury said its underlying UK sales growth was just 0.1 percent in its third quarter as major investment in systems and distribution centres disrupted sales. The performance of the UK's third biggest supermarket chain by market share is likely to fall well short of its rivals such as William Morrison which reported a 10.2 percent growth in the last six weeks. Sainsbury suffered a 0.2 percent drop in like-for-like sales in the second quarter, and analysts had hoped sales would rise by as much as 1.2 percent this time.

Davis has also conceded that the retailer will need to cut prices in the summer to keep up with low cost rivals such as Tesco, second-ranked Asda WMT.N and Morrison.

Standard Life says its in talks with the FSA ???

Pace Micro said it swung to a first-half pre-tax profit from a loss a year earlier, as it shipped more digital TV set-top boxes in Asia Pacific and continental Europe. They said profit for the 26 weeks to November 29 totalled 1.1 million pounds from a loss of 15.9 million pounds a year

Ted Baker fashion chain said sales for the Christmas trading period were 23.7 percent up on the previous year and retail gross margins were in line with those achieved last year. The firm added it remained confident of a positive outcome for the full year.

SIG Plc Europe's biggest distributor of insulation products said it expected to post 2003 profits ahead of market expectations, on the back of record sales. "Record sales achieved in excess of 1.26 billion pounds an increase of nine percent on prior year," it added.

Photo-Me International photo-booth firm reported an eleven-fold rise in first-half profits on Monday and said results for 2003/04 would beat market forecasts.

TBI Uk airport operator said the number of passengers passing through its four European airports rose 16.2 percent in the third quarter of its financial year. It has recently attracted bid interest from Germany's biggest building firm Hochtief

Mentmore storage services firm said it had received a number of other approaches after it said last month it had received one bid approach.

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Sainsbury Trading Update, SIG Trading Update

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