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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjmozrtSC78 StratMin Global Resources PLC (LON:STGR) has disposed of its Graphmada business in Mauritius after the acquisition was agreed on Monday. Acquirer Bass Metals Ltd (ASX:BSM) will make an initial payment of A$1.5mln in cash by the end of the month. The remainder of the A$15.25mln will be met through shares and a net smelter royalty. Brett Boynton, chief executive, tells Proactive Investors '' through the sale we have ended up with an equity position which will enable us to pursue our joint venture with our technical partner Tirupati on another Graphite project about 20 km away from the existing operation.'' ''Our focus will immediately switch, from an operational point of view, to the development of the Vatomaina asset'', he adds.

Interview with Chagala CFO Svetlana Mendesh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tqzQOjLTpU Chagala Group Limited (LON:CGLO), which provides services and facilities to Kazakhstan’s oil and gas industry, enjoyed a strong first half of trading in 2016 despite the well-documented problems surrounding the oil price. “In spite of the world economic crisis and volatile oil prices, the group still demonstrates a stable performance and manages to invest in the development of new projects,” said chief financial officer Svetlana Mendesh. Mendesh added that a mix of active sales strategies and extensions of several major contracts allowed to Chagala to weather the storm in the first six months of the year. She also believes that the company “is a really good place to invest for investors who are looking for opportunities in Kazakhstan”.

Sierra Rutile’s (LON:SRX) board of directors and major shareholder have accepted a takeover bid from Iluka Resources that values it at £215mln. Check out: http://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/129513/big-on-the-bulletin-boards-including-iog-aex-srx-cnr-pvr-hur-xel-gkp

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http://tinyurl.com/znbk8tg Nik Philpot, chief executive of Eckoh PLC (LON:ECK), says the secure payment systems supplier has an excellent pipeline of deals in the US. Philpot describes the market there as at an earlier stage where there’s very little competition. “The US generally is playing catch up with Europe in terms of credit card security, but they are catching up and are looking to make big strides over the next couple of years, and we hope to take a very big slice of that market.” The pipeline at home is described as “great,” with leads from the rest of the world being fulfilled from the UK.

http://tinyurl.com/zzjwhxl Andrew Mackie, chief business officer of Ergomed Plc (LON: ERGO), says the company is looking for more acquisitions principally specialist service companies operating in the post-marketing arena. The pharma services specialist has just bought Haemostatix and its pipeline of topical products to treat surgical bleeding. Mackie is confident the products could get to market quickly and economically, but tells investors there are earlier monetisation moments in terms of deals with licencing partners. Concurrent with this week’s acquisition, Ergomed raised £9 million to assist the development of Haemostatix products and fund bolt on acquisitions to cover geographical holes globally and enhance service delivery.

http://tinyurl.com/gu5l6xf Rosslyn Data Technologies PLC (LON:RDT) chief finance and operating officer Roger Bullen anticipates that the data and cloud technology specialist will “get to cash flow even by the end of this calendar year”. This comes after Rossyln announced a 40% growth year-on-year, and Bullen believes that the company’s ability to not only add new clients, but to retain existing ones, has been key to Rossyln’s strong economic outlook. Bullen also reveals that the company has a new HR analytics app coming out at the end of May which he says “is going to be disruptive to the analytics environment”.

Sorry - here is the correct blurb for the Tom Burnet interview with Proactive: Tom Burnet, chief executive at theme park services provider Accesso Technology Group (LON:ACSO) talks to Proactive Investors about the key contracts the company has won recently, including the large win with Merlin. Burnet says trading has started well in 2016, and that the company is seeing "good growth" across all its markets and products. He says the company will continue to invest heavily on building the best products they can.

http://tinyurl.com/hgm435q GLI Finance Ltd (LON:GLIF) is a leading small and medium sized enterprise (SME) lender, and chief executive Andrew Whelan says it will only lend to companies with a trading track record that have “sensible borrowing requirements”. “When you think that over 50% of business growth comes from the SME market, 50% of employment comes from the SME market, you have to provide the support,” he says. Speaking to Proactive Investors, Whelan, who took over the reins full time in February, says he aims to simplify the balance sheet of the business, streamline the company and improve communication with shareholders on its strategy.

http://tinyurl.com/hs8hs7k Ben Crawford, chief executive of Centralnic Group PLC (LON:CNIC), says the company is going from strength to strength, and is confident that “the growth is showing no particular signs of abating.” He says that the company’s progress is being driven by increasing demand from all over the world, but in particularly from China, “where [CentralNic has] really seen a boom in sales over the past six months.” Crawford also shows off the company’s latest addition to its inventory, the .store domain name, which “is the first domain name for e-commerce websites”.

http://tinyurl.com/ho7fhrz David Budd, chief executive of Epistem Holdings PLC (LON:EHP) says recent tests show its rapid diagnostic system Genedrive is “as accurate as the gold standard”. Genedrive, which has already launched in India for TB, performed well in EU-funded hepatitis (HCV) study carried out by Institut Pasteur and Hopital Cochin in Paris. It was 100% accurate in detecting inherited genetic polymorphisms in Hepatitis (HCV) patients compared to the current 'gold-standard' laboratory test, Roche's TaqMan PCR. “We feel that based on the results that we’ve had today with Institut Pasteur on the qualitative side of detecting HCV that we are in a great position now to go out and find partners that will work with us on commercialising and taking that product to market,” Budd says.

http://tinyurl.com/z7j3bbo DP Poland Plc (LON:DPP) chief executive Peter Shaw believes that the company will continue to grow throughout 2016, after it recorded its 14th consecutive quarter of double digit like-for-like system sales growth in the first quarter of the year. “The consumer economy is strong in Poland, people seem to be excited by the dominos offer and I certainly believe we will continue in the same vein,” he says. Shaw also announced that DP Poland is to open three new stores outside of Warsaw, two of which will be “in existing cities where [DP Poland] currently [has] stores, and also there’ll be one new city in there as well”. For the time being, he says he won’t reveal the name of the new city, citing “competitive reasons” for his desire to keep the location under wraps.