Companies: DTZ   

DTZ continues to make decent progress, increasing pre-tax profits by 20% to £7.7m at the interim stage, with turnover up 14% to £64.8m. New chairman Tim Melville-Ross, who took over from Richard Lay following the company's AGM in September, plans to continue the work started by Lay, who himself was made a CBE in the New Year's Honours. This strategy is focused upon DTZ's present core activity of providing property advice to its clients through its 120 offices in 35 countries worldwide.