Half year results reflect Halma’s resilience Halma, the leading safety, health and sensor technology group, today announces its half year results for the 27 weeks to 3 October 2009. Highlights include: Revenue from continuing operations held steady at £222.1m (2008/09: £221.7m). Pre-tax profit from continuing operations* down 2% at £38.1m (2008/09: £39.0m) after incurring £1.7m of restructuring costs. Positive currency translation benefited revenue by 8% and profit* by 9%. Order intake in the first half 2% ahead of revenue. High level of returns maintained with return on sales of 17.1% (2008/09: 17.6%). Benefits of recent cost reduction actions already showing through with improved profitability towards the end of this first half. Increased...

Proxy votes lodged in favour of the Chairman The 2009 Annual General Meeting of Halma p.l.c. took place on Thursday 30 July 2009 at the Millennium Hotel Mayfair, Grosvenor Square, London W1K 2HP. All resolutions were passed on a show of hands. The table below shows the number of proxy votes cast. Issued share capital excluding treasury shares 375,289,720 Total proxy votes lodged in favour of the Chairman 257,505,947 Total proxy votes as % of issued share capital excluding treasury shares 69% Resolution Votes % of total proxies lodged by resolution Poll Yes/no 1. Report and Accounts For 254,838,731) 99.70 No Open 1,896,576) Against 444,586 0.17 Withheld 326,054 0.13 Total 257,505,947 2. Declaration of dividend For 255,582,174) 100.00 No Open...

Halma, the leading safety, health and sensor technology group, is holding its 115th AGM later today, at which Geoff Unwin, Chairman, will make the following statement. This announcement comprises the Group’s Interim Management Statement relating to the period 29 March – 30 July 2009 and covers the first quarter’s trading. “Trading during the first quarter of the financial year has been in line with the Board’s expectations. “The pattern established at the end of 2008/09 continues with weekly revenues averaging 3% below prior year levels. Order intake has been slightly ahead of revenue in absolute terms. Health and Analysis is showing signs of improved performance, with...

Halma raises dividend for thirtieth consecutive year Halma, the leading safety, health and sensor technology group, today announces its preliminary results for the year to 28 March 2009. Highlights include: Revenue from continuing operations up 15% to £455.9m (2008: £395.1m) reflecting double-digit growth in all three sectors and strong underlying organic revenue growth (1) of 11%. Profit before tax from continuing operations (2) up 9% to £79.1m (2008: £72.8m), with organic profit growth (1) of 5%. These record revenue and profit performances both benefited from an 8% positive contribution from currency translation. Revenues outside Europe and the USA grew by 31% and now represent 22% of Group revenue (2008: 19%), in line with our key strategic...

Halma, the leading safety, health and sensor technology group, is today hosting its Halma Innovation and Technology Exposition at Sandown Park which will be attended by institutional analysts and investors. A presentation will be given on Halma's Photonics business strategy and, together with other information about Halma, may be viewed on this website from 4.00pm today. The Photonics presentation may be downloaded from the Analysts Presentations page: www.halma.com/halmaplc/investors/presentations.jsp No new information regarding current trading will be disclosed at the Exposition. The next formal trading update is expected to be at the time of the announcement of the Group's preliminary results...

Halma, the leading safety, health and sensor technology group today makes an Interim Management Statement prior to its financial year end on 28 March 2009. This Interim Management Statement covers the period from 28 September 2008 to date. Based on current trading and forecasts, the Board expects profit (before amortisation of acquired intangibles) for the year to 28 March 2009 to be within the range of market expectations, towards the lower end. The Company believes the current range of market expectations is £79.0million to £84.5million (2007/08 actual profit before amortisation of acquired intangibles: £72.8million). Of our three reporting sectors, Infrastructure Sensors and Industrial Safety are expected to...