1.   Companies surely benefit from being quizzed about their strategies and from a free flow of ideas with the Market.

2.   Electricity companies in particular benefit from low interest rates because they are big borrowers.

3.   Mr McVeigh said the investment programme would enable the company to benefit from economic recovery in its most important Markets.

4.   The company is now benefiting from the popularity of period design in a wider market.

5.   And North-East companies could benefit from the buying bonanza, according to Mr Hamilton.

6.   If business leaders, who say their companies have benefited from previous privatisations, do not support such changes why should anybody else be expected to?

7.   SCOTTISH companies should benefit from the decision to host the ninth Europartenariat in Glasgow later this year, Allan Stewart, the Scottish industry minister, said yesterday.

8.   Almost all drug companies are benefiting from the trend toward more use of prescription medications, though.

9.   Analysts also said cable television companies are benefiting from reduced regulation that lets them increase revenue.

10.   Analysts said financial companies are benefiting from expectations of continued cuts of the federal budget deficit and modest inflation.