Expansion of Halma's Health and Analysis Sector Halma, the leading safety, health and sensor technology group, announces it has acquired PP Medizintechnik GmbH and its subsidiaries Rudolf Riester GmbH & Co KG and Riester Verwaltungs GmbH (collectively 'Riester') from Paragon Secondary Partners L.P. and G. Glufke for €55 million (£39.3 million)...

Fifth successive half year of strong organic growth Halma, the leading safety, health and sensor technology group, today announces its half year results for the 26 weeks to 29 September 2007. Highlights include: Fifth successive half year of strong organic growth* despite an adverse currency headwind. Growth in all three business sectors and across all major geographic regions. Revenue from continuing operations...

Halma’s trading performance for the first six months of the current financial year is expected to be in line with the Board’s expectations as the Group continues to achieve organic revenue and profit growth. The Board remains positive about prospects for the current financial year and the medium term. Growth was achieved in all three sectors...

We have recently been made aware that some of our shareholders have been contacted by telephone by individual(s) purporting to represent Halma. These individuals have asked for confirmation of personal details. We would therefore like to assure our shareholders that all bona fide Halma communications are in writing and will never request the disclosure or confirmation of personal details. Halma does...

The 2007 Annual General Meeting of Halma p.l.c. took place on Wednesday, 1 August 2007 at the Berkeley Hotel, Wilton Place, London SW1X 7RL. All resolutions were passed on a show of hands. The table below shows the number of proxy votes cast. Issued share...

Halma, the leading safety and environmental technology group, announces the appointment of Jane Aikman as a non-executive Director of the Company with effect from 1 August 2007. Jane Aikman, 41, is Finance Director of Infinis Ltd, the UK’s largest purely renewable energy generator, producing 11% of the UK’s renewable energy. She has previously held similar financial positions at Wilson Bowden plc, the major house building and property development...

Halma, the leading safety, health and sensor technology group, is holding its 113th AGM later today, at which Geoff Unwin, Chairman, will make the following statement, which comprises the Group’s first Interim Management Statement as required by the UK Listing Authority’s Disclosure and Transparency Rules. This statement relates to the period from 1 April 2007 and includes the first...

Halma, the leading safety, health and sensor technology group, is holding its 113th AGM later today, at which Geoff Unwin, Chairman, will make the following statement, which comprises the Group’s first Interim Management Statement as required by the UK Listing Authority’s Disclosure and Transparency Rules. This statement relates to the period from 1 April 2007 and includes the first...

The Board of Halma, the leading safety, health and sensor technology business, expects full year pre-tax profits* to be in line with current market expectations. The strategic changes completed over the past two years and higher investment in sales resources, innovation and people development are underpinning our ability to sustain organic growth. Good cash flow has ensured that the Group ended the year with modest gearing after funding...

A Halma industrial safety firm has been honoured in this year's Queen's Awards for Enterprise. Fortress Interlocks, a Wolverhampton based company that produces equipment that protects lives in hazardous workplaces, has been recognised for its innovation. The company's safety equipment ensures that potentially dangerous procedures take place in the correct, safe order. A simple example would be a sequence of locks that will only release...

Andrew Williams, Halma Group Chief Executive, spoke at the Dresdner Kleinwort Capital Goods Conference in London. A summary of the presentation is available on this website as a pdf document. To download a summary of the presentation, please visit the Analyst Presentations page. Halma aims to make its analyst presentations available...

Halma, the leading safety, health and sensor technology group, announces the completion on 7 February 2007 of the acquisition of Labsphere, Inc (‘Labsphere’) from X-Rite, Inc for an initial cash consideration of $13.9 million (£7.0 million) and deferred cash consideration of $1.5 million (£0.8 million) pending the finalisation of the completion accounts. If the completion accounts to 31 December 2006 demonstrate net tangible assets below $8 million (£4.1 million), the deferred consideration...

Halma, the leading safety, health and sensor technology group, today hosted a site visit to its BEA subsidiary’s headquarters in Liege, Belgium for analysts and investors. A summary of the presentation is available on this website as a pdf document. To download a summary of the presentation in pdf format, please visit the Analyst Presentations page. No new trading information...