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Small caps round-up: Andor, Birmingham City, Bowleven...

Wed, 12th Aug 2009 12:49

Shares in Andor Technology climbed after the digital camera manufacturer said it expects revenues and profits for the full year to exceed expectations.Shares in Birmingham City climbed by 10% after the football club confirmed it has received an approach from Grandtop, the company owned by Hong Kong businessman Carson Yeung. Strong growth in its international operations helped the sports consultancy TSE Group nearly double profits in the half year to June 30. Pre-tax profits rose to £101,000 from £55,000 the previous year as revenue jumped to £818,000 from £612,000. Bowleven rallied to its best in over four months after the Africa-focused oil explorer agreed to farm-out part of its Etinde permit, Cameroon to Vitol E&P.Vitol will get an initial 25% interest in return for funding a $100m gross work programme and has an option to add another 25% for a further $100m spend plus a $25m cash payment to Bowleven.Electronic payment and loyalty card provider Universe Group has posted an operating profit before non-recurring items of £345,000 for the six months to 30 June versus a £347,000 loss a year ago. Those one-off items included £366,000 of redundancy payments. The firm, which has moved away from manufacturing and towards higher margin software and managed services, trimmed pre-tax losses to £174,000 from £618,000 last time on revenue down 6.5% to £7.3m.Drug discovery technology and information company Cyprotex has raised half-year revenue by 9% to £2.45m, helping net profit rise more than £100,000 to £157,000.TV programme maker and digital technology specialist Motive Television cut losses from £507,000 to £430,000 in the half year to June. Revenue fell to £1.86m from £2.71m. 'We do not expect commercial broadcasters to experience any revenue increases until 2011 and so we are focussing all of our development efforts on the BBC. As a result we expect to maintain our production activity at current levels,' it said.Car renter Northgate's right issuer received a 97.5% take-up. The group raised raise £30m through the issue of 50m shares at 60p per share, and £84.4m through a 10 for 1 fully underwritten rights issue of 1.2m shares at 7p.Pentagon Protection gained on news of a further contract award for the supply of equipment to a UK government department with a value in the region of £287,500.
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27 Jan 2012 15:45

Imagination Technologies CEO makes multi-million pound sale

The Chief Executive Officer of chip designer Imagination Technologies has sold off a number of shares in the firm to pay income tax and national insurance of around £3.5m, due as a result of exercising nil-cost share options under the company's employee share plan. Following the £4.6m sale of 802,

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Small caps round-up: Pinnacle Telecom, Plant Health Care...

Shares in Pinnacle Telecom jumped after said it has completed contracts to provide temporary voice and data networks for the Latitude and T in the Park music festivals. Plant Health Care (PHC) is also in demand. The biological fertiliser group signed an agreement for the agricultural products gian

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Small caps round-up: China Shoto, Resources in Insurance, Cello...

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