DCC holds fast to weather global equity market storm

Shares in sales and marketing services group DCC emerged from the storm that raged among international equity markets last week pretty much intact.

As leading Irish shares were battered in a global equity slump, DCC stock finished last Friday only 20 cent off where it started the week.

The resilience was put down to two factors - the defensive nature of the group’s diversified portfolio which includes energy, healthcare and food, and annual ...