Hotting up the pace at Aga

By JIM ARMITAGE
Updated: 00:00 BST, 22 March 2002

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AGA Foodservice, the stuff of legend for middle-class English kitchens, is to 開始する，打ち上げる fridges to match its 範囲 cookers. Aga, which is 拡大するing overseas and becoming a retailer of its upmarket 国内の goods, said its £2,700 fridges would be built to 商業の specifications but with a design complementing its cookers.

Having opened a new 蓄える／店 in London's Knightsbridge, the group, 製図／抽選 on the 小売ing experience of the 解雇する／砲火／射撃d Earth upmarket tiles c ompany it bought last year, is 押し進めるing hard into the US, where it is developing a 蓄える／店 in Boston. It is to open an Aga/解雇する／砲火／射撃d Earth 出口 in Paris in the summer.

長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある William McGrath 認める there were 危険s of a 下降 in 消費者 spending and 落ちるs in 資本／首都 支出 の中で 商業の kitchen （弁護士の）依頼人s, but said he hoped for 'good 進歩' in the 現在の year. The 商業の 分割 has 調印（する）d new 契約s from caterer Compass and supermarkets chains Safeway and Sainsbury's.

Pre-税金 利益（をあげる）s in the year to 31 December, skewed by 処分s and 取得／買収s, fell to £24.7m from £30.8m the time before on turnover 負かす／撃墜する to £370.3m from £969.1m. Operating 利益（をあげる）s were up nearly 10% to £22.6m. The （株主への）配当 落ちるs to 5p from 13.2p.