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ScottishPower Appoints Group Human Resources Director
18 December 1998
ScottishPower announced today the appointment of Paul Pagliari to the post of Group Human Resources Director. Paul will join the Company on 11 January 1999.
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ScottishPower And PacifiCorp Announce Agreed Merger
7 December 1998
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ScottishPower And PacifiCorp Announce Agreed Merger ScottishPower, a leading UK multi-utility, today announces an agreed merger with PacifiCorp, a US electric utility.
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MacKintosh's Lighthouse a Beacon for Green Energy
7 December 1998
The Lighthouse - showpiece of Glasgow's reign next year as UK City of Architecture and Design - is the first building in Scotland to sign up for ScottishPower's "Green Energy" tariff, launched today to promote renewable energy.
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ScottishPower Welcomes Full Energy Market
9 November 1998
ScottishPower today welcomed the opening of the IV post code area, the next stage in the opening of the UK electricity market to competition. Around 89,000 households in the Inverness-shire and Ross-shire will now be able to choose their energy supplier for the first time.
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ScottishPower 1998-99 Interim Results
4 November 1998
"Investing For Growth"
1 April to 30 September 1998
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ScottishPower Appoints Deputy Chief Executive
28 October 1998
ScottishPower announced today the appointment of Ian Russell as Deputy Chief Executive and Finance Director. The appointment will take effect from 1 November 1998.
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ScottishPower Launches New Alliance With HACT Housing Action
27 October 1998
ScottishPower today launched an alliance with the specialist housing charity HACT (Housing Association Charitable Trust) to promote gas, electricity and energy related products to the UK's 1.5 million housing association tenants and the sector's 95,000 employees.
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ScottishPower Plugs In Two New Electric Cars
7 October 1998
Two environmentally friendly electric cars joined the ScottishPower transport fleet today. The Peugeot 106 Electric models, available only to utilities and local authorities in the UK, will be used by staff on city-based journeys between the company's main centres in Glasgow, Atlantic Quay and Spean Street, Cathcart.
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ScottishPower Installs "Tomato-Friendly" Power Plant
5 October 1998
In a pioneering generation project, ScottishPower has installed a £1.1m Combined Heat and Power (CHP) unit that uses the carbon dioxide it produces to boost production at one of the UK's leading tomato-growing companies.
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ScottishPower Welcomes Full Energy Market
14 September 1998
ScottishPower today welcomed the opening of the final stage in energy competition enabling about 750,000 households in four areas of the UK to choose their electricity supplier. The first householders in Scotland to have this opportunity are in the Motherwell, Hamilton, Airdrie and Lanark areas.
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ScottishPower On The Road With Talking Jobs Initative
7 September 1998
Anyone interested in working in a call centre can this week find out by visiting the ScottishPower sponsored Talking Jobs Roadshow. Visitors can speak to team members from the company's call centre, try on the headsets and use one of their workstations. The roadshow will visit five different locations around the Glasgow area between 10am and 4pm at the following locations:
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ScottishPower 1998-99 Interim Results Timetable
7 September 1998
ScottishPower will announce its 1998/99 interim results for the six months to 30 September 1998 on Wednesday 4 November 1998.
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ScottishPower Welcomes Offer's Announcement on Opening of Electricity Market
13 August 1998
ScottishPower has welcomed today's announcement by Offer that competition in the domestic and small business electricity market is to be introduced, on schedule, on Monday 14 September 1998.
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Prince Edward Launches New Outward Bound Video Supported By ScottishPower
5 August 1998
HRH Prince Edward will be visiting Glasgow on Wednesday (5 August) to launch a new ScottishPower-funded video promoting the Outward Bound Trust
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ScottishPower Annual General Meeting 22 July 1998 - Extracts From The Chairman's Statement
22 July 1998
In his address to shareholders, ScottishPower Chairman Murray Stuart will say:
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ScottishPower Issues £250 Million Fixed Rate Bond
7 May 1998
ScottishPower announce that it has launched an issue of £250m fixed rate Bonds. The issue is being lead managed by Barclays Capital Group. HSBC Markets and Greenwich NatWest have been appointed as co-lead managers.
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ScottishPower In Ground-breaking Internet Trial To Reduce Faults
6 May 1998
ScottishPower has completed a £6 million electronic map of the company's electricity network aimed at reducing power cuts caused by accidental damage to underground cables.
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ScottishPower 1997-98 Preliminary Results For The Year Ended 31 March 1998
6 May 1998
Turnover up £187m (6%) to £3,128m
Profit before tax up £81m (15%) to £640m
Profit after tax (including windfall tax of £317m) down £251m to £171m
Earnings per share before windfall tax up 3.2p (8%) to 41.3p
Dividend per share up 1.9p (10%) to 20.4p
Won 320,000 domestic gas customers and in pole position for electricity liberalisation
ScottishTelecom growing rapidly - met its target operating profit of £4m
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ScottishPower Buys Demon Internet In £66m Deal
1 May 1998
ScottishPower's telecommunications arm, ScottishTelecom, has agreed a £66m cash deal to buy Demon Internet, the largest independent Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the UK.
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Windfarm Plans Changed Following Public Consultation
21 April 1998
ScottishPower this week submitted plans to Argyll and Bute Council for a windfarm at Beinn an Tuirc in mid-Kintyre.
The plans, which take the form of a detailed assessment of the project's impact on the environment, incorporate comments made by local residents, the council, Scottish Natural Heritage and other organisations during extensive consultations last year, when surveys showed the great majority of local people to be in favour of the project.
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New IT Training Centre Opened For Clackmannan Jobless
17 April 1998
A new community learning centre funded by ScottishPower to help the unemployed find work officially opens in Alloa today (Friday).
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ScottishPower Invites Customers To Support "Green Energy"
7 April 1998
ScottishPower plans to offer its three million electricity customers the opportunity to fund renewable energy projects under a new tariff called "Green Energy", the company announced today. (Monday)
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Scottish Power plc Appointment Of Director
27 March 1998
The Board of ScottishPower is pleased to announce the appointment of Mair Barnes as a non- executive director with effect from 1 April 1998.
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ScottishPower Welcomes Interconnector Go-ahead
26 March 1998
ScottishPower welcomes the Governments decision on the North Yorkshire line which will lead to increased electricity sales from Scotland, boost the long-term prospects of the Scottish coal industry and lead to price benefits for electricity customers.
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ScottishPower Sells Office Block In £16.7m Property Divestment
25 March 1998
ScottishPower subsidiary Southern Water has sold a 100,000 sq ft office complex for £16.7m to keep its property disposal programme firmly on course for total sales significantly above the initial £30m estimate.
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Multi-Million Investment To Power West Lothian's Growth
18 March 1998
ScottishPower is about to start the next phase of its multi-million pound programme to improve West Lothians overhead electricity network and meet the growing power needs of its customers - including the districts expanding industrial base.
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Management Changes At ScottishPower
16 March 1998
ScottishPower today announced that Charles Berry, Chief Executive of its Manweb subsidiary, and Bill Landels, Managing Director of Energy Supply, are to change positions.
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ScottishPower Chosen For PFI Wastewater Plants
12 February 1998
ScottishPower has been chosen as preferred bidder for two planned wastewater disposal centres serving most of Glasgow, to be built and run under the Government's Private Finance Initiative (PFI).
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ScottishPower Management Changes
27 January 1998
ScottishPower announced today the resignation, from the Board of Scottish Power plc, of Mike Kinski, Executive Director Power Systems and Water Operations, who will leave the company on 17 April 1998. As a consequence, the following changes in management responsibilities will take effect from 1 March 1998.
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ScottishPower Restates Commitment To Competition
22 January 1998
ScottishPower notes todays announcement from OFFER and Ofgas and would like to point out that these proposals would severely restrict the development of a competitive market in gas supply and deny customers the benefits of cheaper fuel.
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ScottishPower Helps Pensioners Delay Cost Of Winter Heating
13 January 1998
Pensioners worried about waiting until March for the Government's cold weather payments can take advantage of measures announced today by ScottishPower to help delay the cost of winter heating.
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ScottishPower In Marketing Alliance With Union Energy
1 January 1998
ScottishPower today signed a partnership agreement with Union Energy, the TUCs energy company, to market and supply competitively priced gas and electricity to the UKs seven million trade union members