MARKET REPORT

POWER producer Drax Group was fired up 33½p to 311¼p after it announced the £340million acquisition of business energy provider Opus Energy. It is also paying £18.5million for four open-cycle gas turbine projects. Chip designer Imagination

Technologies gained 20½p to 240½p after half-year profits of £2.9million compared with a £5.5million loss before.

Hilton Food Group was 18½p tastier at 605½p on plans for a new meat processing facility in Queensland to supply leading Australian retailer Woolworths.

LED lighting technology company Dialight brightened 60½p to 759½p after shining up annual pre-tax earnings materially ahead of expectations.

Filtration and environmental technologies group Porvair climbed 9¼p to 446¼p on the back of a bullish trading report.

Cloud computing firm Iomart jumped 12¼p to 292¼p after a 23 per cent rise in half-year adjusted pre-tax profits to £10.6million. Industrial products distributor

600 Group eased ½p to 9.13p as interim underlying pre-tax profit edged up by £10,000 to £760,000.