Fyffes, the Dublin-based fruit group, reports full year figures on tomorrow, Greatest interest is likely to be generated by updates on its tie-up with Capespan to importing into Europe from South Africa. Analysts will be keen to find out what benefits are expected from the Capespan deal, completed last month.
Pre-tax profits are set to come in around €86 million (£67.7 million), up about 9 per cent on 1998, with earnings per share of around 18.5 cents, up 12 per cent.
Updates on the progress of its planned Internet fruit and produce wholesaling project will also be sought, especially by investors looking for some sign of reasonable growth in the share price.
Monday
Results: Bulmer Holdings (H1), Europower (H1), Jasmin (H1), Kunick, London Clubs (H1), Windsor, Wintrust (H1).
A.G.M.: Mercury Keystone Investments, NatWest Smaller Cos (e.g.m.), Silvermines Group (e.g.m.), Superscape.
Meetings: EU finance ministers meet (Brussels); Bank for International Settlements meets group of 10 central bankers; UCC Commerce and Economics Society annual conference (Jurys Hotel, Cork).
Indicators: British producer prices (Nov).
Others: SIPTU ballot at First Active; Bord Failte details Focus 2000 - tourism marketing plans (Conrad Hotel, Dublin).
Tuesday
Results: Berkeley Group (H1), Carpetright (H1), Ensor Holdings (H1), First Choice (H1), French, Fyffes, Greenalls Group, Huntsworth, M Shelton (H1), Mondas (H1).
A.G.M.: Charles Stanley (e.g.m.), Foreign & Colonial Euro.
Meetings: European Union agriculture ministers meet (Brussels to Wed); Oireachtas Joint Committee on Enterprise and Small Business hears presentation on e-commerce from Consumers' Association of Ireland.
Indicators: EMU labour cost index (Q2) and earnings (Q2); Irish consumer prices (Nov); British retail prices (Nov); US consumer prices (Nov), retail sales (Nov), current account (Nov & Q3), real earnings (Nov) and Atlanta Federal Index (Nov); Italian industrial production (Oct).
Wednesday
Results: Aortech International (H1), Baggeridge, Computerland (H1), Druck Holdings (H1), MFI (H1), Swan (John) (H1), Tops Estates (H1).
A.G.M.: Celltech Chiroscience (e.g.m.), Foriegn & Colonial Emerging, Lowland Investment Co, Medeva, RhonePoulenc, Scottish Value Trust, Tepnel Life Sciences.
Meetings: European Central Bank governing council meeting (Frankfurt); Bank of France monetary policy council meeting (Paris); EU-US summit (Washington to Thurs); The Marketing Society meets on "Life in the 21st Century: What do the Irish Expect?" (Fitzwilliam Hotel, Dublin).
Indicators: Irish national household survey (Q3); British unemployment (Nov), average earnings (Oct) and unit wages (Oct); US business inventories (Oct), industrial production (Nov) and capacity utilisation (Nov); Japanese industrial production (Oct).
Others: AIB-controlled WBK Bank in Poland details plans for 2000.
Thursday
Results: Apollo Metals, Daily Mail & General Trust, Phonelink (H1), Ptarmigan Int Cap (H1), Securicor.
A.G.M.: British Empire Sec., Broadgate Investment, Dana Petroleum (e.g.m.), Estates & Agency, Glasgow. Inv Tst, Morgan Grenfell Eq. Inc.
Meetings: Inaugural meeting of finance ministers from the Group of Twenty, an economic forum of the richest nations and those with key emerging financial markets (Berlin); EU-Canada summit; IAPF seminar (UCD University Industry Centre).
Indicators: Irish wholesale price index (Nov) and industrial employment (Q2); British retail sales (Nov) and CBI monthly trends survey (Dec); US international trade (Oct) and Philadelphia Federal Survey (Dec); German Ifo business climate index (Nov).
Others: Irish Dairy Board end-year review.
Friday
A.G.M.: Bett Brothers, Finsbury Growth, HypoVereinsbank (e.g.m.).
Indicators: Irish retail sales (Oct) and tourism and travel data (Q3); US housing starts (Nov) and building permits (Nov); French trade balance (Oct); Italian consumer prices (Nov) and balance of payments (Oct).
