London property investment and development group announced a strong set of results outperforming the market with a valuation increase of 8%.

UK property group says “great developments and operations” are behind a set of strong results. Property value increased by 2% and the Group outperformed market expectations on both NAV and revenue profit.

Development Securities announced full-year 2012 results saying gains of £28m it had made from its Development and Trading portfolio vindicated its strategy of acquiring and regenerating secondary real estate.

Alison Cooper, CEO, and Bob Dyrbus, FD, interviewed on the tobacco group's half-year results.

CFO Simon Dingemans looks at the pharma group's Q1 results including areas of momentum and new strategic initiatives.