The Swedish-Swiss engineering group ABB has posted record high profits for last year, and is upbeat about 2008.

Asia's biggest personal-computer seller Lenovo Group Ltd. tripled profit to a record, beating estimates, after adding sales agents to increase shipments. The company plans to sell its mobile-phone unit to focus on PCs.

Investment bank Lazard reported Wednesday its record fourth-quarter profits of $122.6 million.

Ryanair the Europe's largest low-cost airline, announced that its revenue and yield per passenger in the year to March 31 has increased to post pre-tax profits up 33 per cent to €451m ($608m, £305m). And that figures they got notwithstanding a considerable rise in fuel costs.

Theo Fennel the famous jeweller, among whose clients are the Beckhams and the singer Elton John, today has announced record results for another year: his pre-tax profits have doubled and equalled to £1.6 million.

Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2007 second quarter ended March 31, 2007. The Company posted revenue of $5.26 billion and net quarterly profit of $770 million, or $.87 per diluted share.