IN BRIEF

■ Oil giant BP saw profits more than double to £2.9billion in the three months to the end of September.

■ Reckitt Benckiser, maker of Dettol, Nurofen and Durex condoms, took a £70million sales hit after technical problems at its Netherlands

Mead Johnson baby formula factory left it unable to meet demand. Sales growth slowed to 2% in the past three months.

■ WH Smith has struck a £155million deal to double the size of its international travel business by snapping up US airport-based chain InMotion.