宙返り／暴落するing ICI paints sad picture

By Daily Mail Reporter
Updated: 00:00 BST, 31 October 2001

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ICI, once the pride of British 産業, is likely to be in the Dulux doghouse when it 報告（する）／憶測s its third-４半期/4分の1 results on Thursday.

It is 推定する／予想するd to 明かす 利益（をあげる）s of around £100m, 負かす／撃墜する from £122m last time.

It will also own up to a その上の 延期する in offl oading its 30% 火刑／賭ける in Huntsman International, 価値（がある） some £300m, to the Huntsman 会社／団体. The 後退 will 狼狽 critics who want a 削減（する） in ICI's £3bn 負債.

ICI on Tuesday dropped 15 1/2p to 330 1/2p, just over one-４半期/4分の1 of their five-year high of 1244p. 仲買人s fretted over its （危険などに）さらす to the enfeebled US economy.

The City is also 関心d over possible 環境の 義務／負債s. Ineos Chlor, which bought a 化学製品 工場／植物 in Runcorn, Cheshire, from ICI in January, may be considering 合法的な 活動／戦闘, 主張するing that the 工場／植物 was in a worse 条件 than it had been told.

Under 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある Brendan O'Neill, ICI has moved away from 本体，大部分／ばら積みの 化学製品s and into 罰金 fragrances and Feng Shui Dulux paints.

支持者s say O'Neill's 戦略 has 配達するd decent results against a difficult 背景. The group can cover 負債 利益／興味 three times over, 示唆するing it does not 直面する 返済 problems. It is 支払う／賃金ing £300m a year into a '遺産／遺物' 計画／陰謀 covering 環境の clean up costs.

にもかかわらず 憶測 that 年金 costs may rise as a result of changed accounting 支配するs, it is about to 削減（する） 最高の，を越す-up 支払い（額）s into its 年金 基金 to £30m a year from £100m.