Asda staff get pounds 43m windfall; SHARES.Byline: CLINTON Clinton. 1 Town (1990 pop. 12,767), Middlesex co., S Conn., on Long Island Sound; settled 1663, set off from Killingworth and inc. 1838. The school that later became Yale opened here in 1702. MANNING; RUKI SAYID THOUSANDS of Asda workers are toasting a pounds 43million shares windfall windfall An unexpected profit or gain. An investor holding a stock that increases greatly in price because of an unexpected takeover offer receives a windfall. - the biggest in 10 years. This morning, more than 16,000 staff will be waking up to a 150% return on the supermarket's sharesave plan. On average, employees who invested in the three-year scheme will pocket around pounds 2,700. And those who salted away the maximum pounds 250 a month will see a pounds 13,800 jackpot - that's pounds 4,800 more than the pounds 9,000 they invested. This year's pay-out is the largest since WalMart bought Asda in 1999 and follows a near 50% rise in its share price since 2006. |
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