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    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      Lex
      Severn Trent: new investment plan and more liquidity add clarity

      The group’s share price climbed as much as 6% after it announced a £1bn equity placement

      Liv Garfield, chief executive officer of Severn Trent
    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      UK water company Severn Trent to raise £1bn to tackle pollution

      Customers’ bills to rise almost 37% by end of decade under new five-year spending plan

      A Severn Trent Water sign with the Ladybower Reservoir in the background
    • Friday, 1 September, 2023
      News in-depthUtilities
      Water company CEO pay falls 27% amid leakage scandals

      Combined remuneration at 10 largest groups fell last year but critics argue it remains high

      Surfers and sea swimmers prepare to enter the water as the environmental protest group Surfers Against Sewage hold a protest at Saltburn beach
    • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
      Utilities
      Severn Trent faces US-style class action lawsuit over sewage spills

      Ex-Oxford academic launches claim for alleged under-reporting of pollution and overcharging

    • Monday, 3 July, 2023
      Helen Thomas
      Water has a private equity, not a private ownership, issue

      The listed groups are less geared and have made a better start at tackling problems with ailing infrastructure

      A glass of fresh water being filled from the kitchen tap
    • Friday, 30 June, 2023
      Thames Water PLC
      Thames Water shareholder shows support for troubled company

      Universities Superannuation Scheme gives backing to turnround plan as Severn Water boss tries to rally sector against nationalisation

      Thames Water logo
    • Friday, 26 May, 2023
      Investments
      Investors’ Chronicle: Big Yellow, Victorian Plumbing, Severn Trent

      Companies analysis from our sister publication

    • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
      Pollution
      Water prosecutions fall in England despite thousands of pollution warnings

      Green groups say regulator is failing to hold polluters to account due to years of funding cuts

    • Monday, 3 October, 2022
      Utilities
      UK water companies ordered to cut £150mn from customers’ bills

      Southern Water and Thames Water singled out for missing targets on supply, pollution and sewer flooding

      Water is pumped into a drain
    • Friday, 27 May, 2022
      Investments
      Investors’ Chronicle: Severn Trent, Pets at Home, Marks and Spencer

      Companies analysis from our sister publication

    • Friday, 25 September, 2020
      City InsiderMatthew Vincent
      Still too many jobs for the boys

      Precious few women chair the boards of FTSE 100 companies

    • Wednesday, 17 June, 2020
      UK companies
      FTSE bosses back on full pay after pandemic wage cuts

      Foxtons, Severn Trent, Persimmon and others reinstate chiefs’ salaries as wave of job cuts hits Britain

    • Thursday, 4 July, 2019
      LexUtilities
      Labour nationalisations: weedy warriors Premium content

      Some water groups’ shares have rallied as voter preferences fall for opposition party

      epa03822517 Water runs from a tap in London, Britain, 12 August 2013. News reports suggest Thames Water will look to raise its prices in 2014 to cover debts and infrastructure costs.  EPA/ANDY RAIN
    • Wednesday, 29 May, 2019
      News in-depthUK nationalisation
      Investors attack Labour’s renationalisation plans

      Shareholders angry at party suggestion it would pay compensation below market prices

    • Sunday, 26 May, 2019
      Qatari sovereign wealth fund takes £200m stake in Severn Trent

      QIA has pumped billions of pounds into UK real estate and infrastructure in recent years

      A logo sign sits on a sign at the Ladybower Reservoir, operated by Severn Trent Plc, in the Upper Derwent Valley near Glossop, U.K., on Sunday, June 2, 2013. Severn Trent, the U.K.'s second-largest publicly traded water company, rejected a sweetened takeover offer from a group led by Borealis Infrastructure Management Inc., saying the proposal for 2,125 pence a share undervalues its stock. Photographer: Paul Thomas/Bloomberg
    • Tuesday, 21 May, 2019
      UK nationalisation
      Severn Trent dividend jumps after payout criticism

      Inflation-busting rise comes after Labour outlines plan to renationalise water groups

      Severn Trent from PR
    • Monday, 25 March, 2019
      Utilities
      Severn Trent fined for huge sewage leak that destroyed rare plants

      Thousands of gallons were discharged in West Midlands park, leading to £500,000 fine

      SEVERN TRENT WATER £500,000 PENALTY FOR SEWAGE DISCHARGE AT SUTTON PARK
    • Wednesday, 18 July, 2018
      fastFTMatthew Vincent
      Opening Quote: EasyJet takes off despite French strikes
      GWB8BA Passengers boarding an Easyjet plane, Luton airport, Luton UK
    • Tuesday, 10 July, 2018
      UK infrastructure
      Water industry taken to task on serious pollution incidents

      South West Water the worst offender as watchdog imposes record £22m fines

      Undated handout photo issued by the Environment Agency of sewage foam collecting around boats at Bourne End Marina. Thames Water has been fined £20.3 million - the largest penalty handed down to a water utility for an environmental disaster - for polluting the River Thames with 1.4 billion litres of raw sewage. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Wednesday March 22, 2017. See PA story COURTS Thames. Photo credit should read: Environment Agency/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.
    • Monday, 18 June, 2018
      Energy sector
      Ofwat criticises water companies for poor service during storms

      Regulator hits at four companies over response to thousands of customers losing supplies

      Volunteers from South East Water help distribute bottles of water to residents in Lenham, Kent, as households across London and south east England have been told to use as little water as possible - after extreme weather caused burst pipes.
    • Friday, 25 May, 2018
      LexEnergy sector
      UK water: liquid assets Premium content

      Income-seeking investors must prepare for lower returns in future

      A5XG1B Burst Water-main - Tavistock Place - Bloomsbury - London
    • Wednesday, 23 May, 2018
      LombardMatthew Vincent
      M&S is finally coming to the online retail party — like it’s 1999

      High street staple still ‘rebuilding’ web pages, presumably while waiting for a dial tone

      FILE: An employee arranges pairs of skinny jeans hanging on a rail inside a branch of Marks & Spencer Group Plc (M&S) in London, U.K., on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017. A decline in sales of food and clothing in the fourth quarter underlined the need for a restructuring of the 134-year-old retailer, including plans to shut nearly one-third of its large stores in the U.K. Our editors select the best archive images of M&S as profits drop 62% and store closures planned. Photographer: Luke MacGregor/Bloomberg
    • Wednesday, 23 May, 2018
      Energy sector
      Severn Trent defies criticism with inflation-beating dividend

      Group earned £80m from regulator after fall in sewer flooding, pollution and complaints

      Severn Trent said it had missed its targets on leaks because of a spell of very cold weather at the start of March
    • Wednesday, 23 May, 2018
      fastFTMatthew Vincent
      Opening Quote: M&S profit sliced in stale sandwich
    • Tuesday, 1 May, 2018
      Tobacco
      Stocks to watch: Virgin Money, Tapestry, Compass, Severn Trent

      Ocado is winner from a Sainsbury-Asda merger, says Peel Hunt

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