(Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers on AIM in London on Friday.
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AIM - WINNERS
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Directa Plus PLC, up 10% at 107.00 pence, 12-month range 95.1p-178p. Sees an acceleration in trading in the last two months since the first quarter of the year. The graphene-based product supplier says that revenue from the start of the year to the end of May was approximately 44% ahead of the same period the previous year at EUR4.6 million. Directa Plus says this was driven by growth in all its commercial verticals, with sales in line with expectations.
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Bidstack Group PLC, up 6.4% at 2.40p, 12-month range 1.6p-6.15p. The in-game advertising platform hires David Reeves as chair designate to succeed Donald Stewart on September 1. The company says Reeves will serve as a non-executive director in the meantime. Stewart will move to a non-executive role and serve on the audit and remuneration Committees on Reeves' becoming the chair. Reeves has over 30 years' global experience in senior management roles within multinational companies across the video games industry, having working at Sony and Capcom.
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AIM - LOSERS
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ValiRx PLC, down 12% at 19.15p, 12-month range 17.3p-63p. The drug development company anticipates extension request to the exclusivity period between itself and TheroemRx Inc regarding the proposed sub-licence for VAL201. An exclusivity period was granted to June 30 to enable TheoremRx to progress its financing round, which the sub-licence of VAL201 depends. Progress on financing remains positive, but ValiRx anticipates that an extension to the exclusivity period will be requested and intends to seek "more formal confirmation" of the progress. "The letter of intent and proposed sub-license therefore remain non-binding and there is no guarantee that this sub-license will be executed or that it will generate material revenues within the expected timeframe or at all," it says.
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M&C Saatchi PLC, down 7.3% at 164p, 12-month range 122p-227p. Directors pull support for takeover offer by Next Fifteen Communications Group PLC, while still not supporting a rival offer by AdvancedAdvT Ltd. M&C Saatchi directors "no longer consider the terms of the Next 15 offer to be fair and reasonable solely on the basis of the deterioration in value of Next 15 shares since the announcement date," the London-based advertising agency explains. Since announcing its share-based acquisition offer in May, Next Fifteen shares have fallen by around 30%. M&C Saatchi, however, also warns that it may be prevented from delivering on its own plans as a standalone company. Shares in Next Fifteen fall 1.9% on Friday.
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By Lucy Heming;Â lucyheming@alliancenews.com
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M&C Saatchi (SAA)
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