HENRY ANSBACHER HAS 51 PCT OF ADAMS AND PORTER INC

  &lt;Henry Ansbacher Holdings Plc> said it
  has acquired a 51 pct interest in the U.S. Retail and general
  corporate insurance broker &lt;Adams and Porter Inc>.
      The move is the first step in building a new international
  insurance broking group following the appointment of a new
  management team for its Seascope Insurance Holdings unit.
      Ansbacher said A and P has exciting growth potential,
  particularly on the east coast of the U.S. And has an annual
  revenue of more than four mln dlrs. Ansbacher shares were up
  4-1/2p to 90-1/2, helped by the announcement earlier today of a
  1986 pretax profit rise to 5.56 mln stg from 2.74 mln in 1985.
  

