IAWS has delivered solid growth with sales and earnings in double digits for the year ended 31 July, 2005.

FOOD Group IAWS Plc has produced strong first-half results driven by good growth in its Lifestyle Food businesses, where overall profits before tax and exceptional items rose 23% to €42.8 million.

New figures from corporate finance specialists, Ion Equity reveal that the value of merger and acquisitions involving Irish companies in the fourth quarter of 2004 was almost 50% greater than the value of such deals in the same period a year earlier.

THE ISEQ rose for a fourth consecutive day nudging ahead 1.75 points to 6118.91 at the closing bell.

FOOD Group IAWS has expanded its par-baked division with the purchase of French-based Groupe Hubert.

The ISEQ index of shares closed in positive territory today although most companies saw their share prices falling back.

Dublin's stock exchange has risen by just over six points by 11am this morning to 6117.64 as food group IAWS offsets the negative trend elsewhere.

IAWS Group has announced the acquisition of Groupe Hubert, a leading developer and distributor of bakery products in France.