Aggreko
Revenue £768m Dividend 9.38p
Aggreko is apparently having a little difficulty prising Chris Weston away from British Gas. Blame the number of departures from Centrica, its parent, but the temporary power supplier has no idea when its new chief executive will arrive.
Halfway figures suggest the company is doing well enough in his absence, if you are prepared to look beyond the inevitable headwinds from the high pound for a business that gets more than half its revenues in dollars.
Strip out currency effects, and revenues at the power projects division, which supplies temporary generation units to countries unable to cope with domestic demand, rose 14 per cent in the first half.
The local business, which supplies one-off events such as festivals and the