{"id":265,"date":"2009-01-09T16:55:32","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T16:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-finance-zone.co.uk\/?p=265"},"modified":"2009-01-09T16:55:32","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T16:55:32","slug":"bovis-cuts-more-jobs-and-dividend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/01\/09\/bovis-cuts-more-jobs-and-dividend\/","title":{"rendered":"Bovis cuts more jobs and dividend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- S BO --> <!-- S IBOX --><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"231\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"5\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/shared\/img\/o.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"5\" height=\"1\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"sibtbg\">\n<div class=\"o\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/44630000\/jpg\/_44630927_bovis_pa226b.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Bovis development\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"o\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/nol\/shared\/img\/v3\/inline_dashed_line.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"2\" width=\"226\" height=\"1\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"miiib\"><!-- S ILIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"arr\">\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- E ILIN --><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><!-- E IBOX --> <!-- S SF --><\/p>\n<p class=\"first\"><strong>The housebuilder Bovis Homes has announced another 200 job cuts and decided not to pay a dividend.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A year ago the company employed 1,000 staff and it had already cut 400 of those jobs.<\/p>\n<p>It said profits for 2008 would be as expected but warned trading conditions were &#8220;the worst seen in many years&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Bovis completed 1,817 homes in 2008, down from 2,930 the previous year, but the average price paid fell from \u00a3179,500 to \u00a3150,000. <!-- E SF --><\/p>\n<p>That was partly a result of falling house prices and partly due to the company building a higher proportion of cheaper, social housing.<\/p>\n<p>Bovis said that its overheads in 2009 would be between 40% and 50% lower than in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>source: bbc.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The housebuilder Bovis Homes has announced another 200 job cuts and decided not to pay a dividend. A year ago<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-finance-zone.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}