Tom Budszus

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(Alliance News) - Travis Perkins PLC on Friday named SIG PLC's boss Gavin Slark as its next chief executive. Slark is to join the Northampton-based building supplies firm "no later than" January 1. Travis Perkins had announced in March that Pete Redfern was leaving the CEO post due to ill health. Redfern became CEO in September of last year. Slark had an 11-year stint as CEO of Dublin-based building materials and construction products supplier Grafton Group PLC which ended in 2022.

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(Alliance News) - Target Healthcare REIT PLC on Thursday said that it continued to outperform against a comparator index in its third financial quarter that ended in late March. The real estate investment trust that specialises in care homes said EPRA net tangible assets per share edged up 0.3% to 113.0 pence as at March 31, from 112.7p at December 31. This was helped by the portfolio's inflation-linked rent reviews, Target Healthcare said.

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(Alliance News) - GSK PLC on Thursday gave an update on its investigational targeted inhibitor linerixibat as a treatment for relentless itch. The London-based pharmaceutical company said in a phase 3 trial, primary and key secondary endpoints were met, which demonstrated a "rapid, significant and sustained improvement" in cholestatic pruritus, also known as relentless itch, and itch-related sleep interference, compared to a placebo.

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(Alliance News) - Ireland's harmonised consumer price index inflation came in as expected in April, data published by the Central Statistics Office showed Thursday. The country's annual harmonised consumer price inflation rate was 2.0% in April, picking up from 1.8% in March. This confirmed flash figures released by the CSO at the end of April. Harmonised monthly consumer price growth was confirmed at 0.4% in April, decelerating from 0.7% in March from February.

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(Alliance News) - Harbour Energy PLC on Thursday increased its minimum expected daily production guidance for 2025, as it posted sharp first-quarter revenue growth. The London-based oil and gas firm said it sharply increased production to 500,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day in the first quarter of 2025, from just 172,000 boepd a year prior. Revenue surged to USD2.8 billion in the first quarter, from USD900 million a year ago.