British Gas seeks customer growth

British Gas-owner Centrica has said it will focus this year on winning back customers it lost in 2004.
British Gas – which also provides electricity – revealed in December that it had lost about one million users over the year after it put up prices.

Centrica said it had no plans to raise household bills further, but added that wholesale costs remained volatile.

The comments came as the company reported a 16% rise in operating profits to £1.2bn ($2.3bn).