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These included IBM's withdrawal from selling a Tadpole computer notebook, while marketing projections for other company products were too optimistic, he added.. Losses push Tadpole into slide The share price of Tadpole Technology, the beleaguered manufacturer of notebook computers, dropped 10p to 78p after the company announced post- tax losses of almost pounds 10m in the year to the end of September. Despite the losses, which compared to a profits fall of pounds 1.3m the previous year, the company said yesterday that it still hoped for growth to resume in 1996. Richard King, Tadpole's chairman, admitted that mistakes had led to the past year's decline in sales to pounds 24m, down from pounds 32.5m in the previous 12 months. Brian Souter, chairman, said he was confident about prospects for the rest of the year, and added that the company expected a February court hearing to challenge the Monopolies and Mergers Commission's enforced sale of its 20 per cent shareholding in Strathclyde Buses and Mainline (Sheffield.).
Now an investment trust, 3i's net asset value rose from 346p to 390p and the interim dividend goes up 11 per cent to 3.1p.. Lift for Stagecoach Shares in Stagecoach, the highly acquisitive and often-criticised bus operator, rose 5p to 283p on news of a 43 per cent jump in half-year pre- tax profits to pounds 20.7m. The dividend for the six months to 14 October is being boosted by 27 per cent to 2.1p. Total return comprised pre-tax profits up from pounds 33m to pounds 42.2m and capital profits more than doubled from pounds 110m to pounds 239m, before currency translation adjustments.