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http://tinyurl.com/jfyqyjc Utilitywise PLC (LON:UTW) has been named a partner by the computing giant Dell Inc, propelling the group further into the Internet of Things market. Brin Sheridan, chief operating officer, tells Proactive that the deal will “help enhances the range of technologies we can deploy,” adding that Dell was “very impressed” with its technology’s capability. The relationship could ultimately enable the Aim-listed firm introduce intelligent devices that help a wider range of customers save money on their utility bills, and Sheridan says he believes “will allow us to acquire and keep more customers because of the services that we can now offer.”

http://tinyurl.com/hpjqqhr Ergomed (LON:ERGO) Chief Financial Officer Stephen Stamp tells Proactive Investors about plans to make bolt-on acquisitions in 2016. "My background is in investment banking, capital raising, that is the kind of CFO background I have so that is what I hope to bring to the party and in coming quarters you can expect to see an announcement or two" he says. Phillips says Deltex has a small pipeline they are looking at and is keen to broaden the firm's geographical reach. "We feel we are a little under-represented in the U.S. - that is one place we are looking and there a few spots in Europe where we have some gaps we would like to fill in... and then to the Far East, but not China" he says. "China is a special market and there are other places for us to go first".

http://tinyurl.com/hk5yhyw Deltex Medical Group (LON:DEMG) CEO Ewan Phillips tells Proactive Investors that the company is getting into healthy growth rate numbers in international and U.S markets. "You've got to crack America if you want to be successful. That is what we are setting out to do, " he says. .There is clearly a curve starting to come through there of accelerated growth in the States, which is good" . Phillips says the milestone the company is trying to get to is 1500 probe sales per month. "That would see us breaking even cash-wise in the States - after that we think we have enough stuff in the pipeline for good growth, this year, next year and the year after", he says. The disappointment has been the NHS which created a financial strain on the business, but Phillips sees a shift coming. "The mood music is already changing in the UK. I am confident the business will come back" he says.

http://tinyurl.com/po3nmo4 Bruno Jactel, chief executive of life sciences technology group TyraTech Inc (LON:TYR), says the firm’s Vamousse treatment, as of December 2015, is now “the fastest growing head lice product in the US, and we are the number one non-pesticide product”. He speaks to Proactive after Tyratech posted a 154% increase in gross product revenue to $7.1mln in the year to the end of December. Jactel adds that the company is now focused on “growth and the pathway to profitability,” with three key areas for long-term growth – expanding its distribution network in existing markets, penetrating other markets including animal health, and moving into new geographies.

http://tinyurl.com/go7jjgo Tom Becker, chief executive of Iofina PLC (LON:IOF), says the company’s iodine production in the first quarter “was pretty much right on what he had anticipated to do”. The company, which extracts iodine from waste brine water from oil production in the US, said on Monday that output for the first quarter was 124.6 metric tonnes (MT). Becker tells Proactive he is “pleasantly pleased” with the production figures and confirms Iofina remains “right on track to hit our production targets”.

http://tinyurl.com/j3l7b4s Nasstar PLC (LON:NASA), the cloud service provider, increased adjusted pre-tax profit in 2015 and that is thanks to benefits of integrating acquisitions, its chief executive Nigel Redwood tells Proactive Investors. Nasstar is cautious not to make acquisitions for growth alone and seeks key strategic justifications. Its most recent acquisition, VESK, in late 2015, the company found several benefits, including James Mackie, the founder whom Redwood was keen to get on board and has appointed Group Sales Director. But organic growth is also important to the future of the business. “Hence, in 2016 we are putting a lot of investment into sales and marketing. To re-launch under one umbrella brand name which will be Nasstar,” he says.

http://tinyurl.com/jmk44k4 Nick Clarke, chief executive of Central Asia Metals Ltd (LON:CAML) says by paying a dividend, the company is showing it has confidence in its “future production, future costs of production and the commodity price going forward”. The company has now paid back more in dividends than it raised in its initial public offering, saying the milestone was “pretty unique”, adding that it gave the company “a strong following from the investment community”. He spoke after the firm released 2015 results, which showed the company sold a record 12,040 tonnes of copper from its Kounrad project in Kazakhstan, to generate revenue of US$67.3mln.

http://tinyurl.com/h3bh6at John Dawson, chief executive of Alliance Pharma PLC (LON:APH), tells Proactive Investors that the recent acquisition of the Sinclair Healthcare Products Business has had a “transformational” effect on the business. He says the deal doubles Alliance’s sales, profits, and market capitalisation, adding that the company is now “in a place that we can bid for other opportunities in the future”. Dawson goes on to say it also gives the company a “much stronger presence across the top five EU countries,” as well as in China and South East Asia. Alliance reported robust final statement for the year ended 31 December 2015 on Thursday, with revenue up 11% to £48.3mln, compared to £43.5mln the previous year.

http://tinyurl.com/hbwesad A marketing campaign for Mirada PLC’s (LON:MIRA) rollout of the Iris Multiscreen solution used by five Mexican networks could begin in a matter of weeks, its chief executive Jose Luis Vazquez tells Proactive Investors in a phone interview on Thursday. The total subscriber base of the other four networks is in excess of 3.5mln. Previously it was on record that Mirada planned to launch on two of those networks. “But what we are saying today is that we are launching the solution in the full four networks at the same time. That is great news for us,” he adds.

http://tinyurl.com/z5sohan ServicePower Technologies PLC (LON:SVR) is confident of growing the business in 2016 as well as migrating services to cloud storage. Speaking to Proactive, chief executive Marne Martin says “we should have the new products to their next level of road map development by June - so that will benefit the second half of the year. We are also doing some cost rationalisation as we migrate internal infrastructure to the cloud.” That process is underway but didn’t fetter full-year top line growth, tells Proactive Investors. “We’re very happy to have grown the top line. As we know with the oil price and the general economic constraints, it’s a bit of a challenging environment, so to be able to go top line 2% higher…is very positive,” Martin says. This is despite softening in demand in the UK and Europe ahead of the UK [Brexit] vote, in part due to America, where the company continues to perform strongly.

http://tinyurl.com/hqfguot John Swaite, finance director of business telecoms provider AdEPT Telecom PLC (LON:ADT), says the acquisition of Centrix last May is one of the reasons for the company’s strong performance during the last financial year. Swaite admits that the impact of the Centrix has been a pleasant surprise for the Kent-based firm, as the acquisition “has been a lot stronger than [AdEPT] thought.” Moving forward, Swaite believes the company will continue to focus on the public sector, while he says “there is now significant headroom within [AdEPT’s] existing debt facility to look for more acquisitions”.

http://tinyurl.com/zdhaq72 Zvi Marom, chief executive of BATM Advanced Communications Limited (LON:BVC) says cyber issues are becoming a “hot topic” and that already more and more clients are “installing and testing” its offering. “Cybercrime will become, I think, the most common way that sophisticated criminals will be active. The days of Bonnie and Clyde are over” he adds. Its network division has picked up a US$4mln, three-year contract to provide secure applications for an unnamed government - the second national government contract awarded to BATM's network and cyber arm Marom says that he expects “more clients and bigger clients” to come take up its technology,” adding “I expect that this will materialise in our results.”

http://tinyurl.com/zgkchvb Nigel Goldsmith, chief financial officer of Instem PLC (LON:INS) tells Proactive the firm had an “exceptionally good year in 2015”, which has given it a “very strong platform” for this year. The company, which develops software used in clinical trials, recorded significant year-on-year growth in 2015 as its main markets continue to expand. Revenues increased by 22% in the 12 months to December 31 to £16.3mln, £10mln of which were recurring. Instem also increased its cash reserves, and Goldsmith says this, combined with a £5mln fundraise, will allow the company to look at “new acquisitions” in a “fragmented sector” with “lots of opportunities”.

http://tinyurl.com/zgkchvb Nigel Goldsmith, chief financial officer of Instem PLC (LON:INS) tells Proactive the firm had an “exceptionally good year in 2015”, which has given it a “very strong platform” for this year. The company, which develops software used in clinical trials, recorded significant year-on-year growth in 2015 as its main markets continue to expand. Revenues increased by 22% in the 12 months to December 31 to £16.3mln, £10mln of which were recurring. Instem also increased its cash reserves, and Goldsmith says this, combined with a £5mln fundraise, will allow the company to look at “new acquisitions” in a “fragmented sector” with “lots of opportunities”.

http://tinyurl.com/j8srke9 Deltex Medical Group PLC (LON:DEMG) announced on Tuesday that it signed up two more US hospitals for its bloodflow monitoring systems including its first major account in a veterans’ hospital. The new accounts are with hospitals in the Mid-West and the Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital. There are 20 US hospitals using Deltex’s oesophageal Doppler monitoring (ODM) probes in sufficient quantities to be deemed ‘platform’ programme accounts, and Ewan Phillips, chief executive, tells Proactive that getting to 20 is “a major staging post in our US expansion plans”. He adds that Deltex “sees opportunities over the next two to three years to get some programs going through the whole VA system”, which he says would be “a real start to a roll-out program”.

http://tinyurl.com/j8srke9 Deltex Medical Group PLC (LON:DEMG) announced on Tuesday that it signed up two more US hospitals for its bloodflow monitoring systems including its first major account in a veterans’ hospital. The new accounts are with hospitals in the Mid-West and the Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital. There are 20 US hospitals using Deltex’s oesophageal Doppler monitoring (ODM) probes in sufficient quantities to be deemed ‘platform’ programme accounts, and Ewan Phillips, chief executive, tells Proactive that getting to 20 is “a major staging post in our US expansion plans”. He adds that Deltex “sees opportunities over the next two to three years to get some programs going through the whole VA system”, which he says would be “a real start to a roll-out program”.

http://tinyurl.com/j3w6ejx Tidal power specialist Atlantis Resources PLC (LON:ARL) is to work with infrastructure investment group Equitix to develop its portfolio. Under the agreement, funds managed by Equitix will acquire at least 25% of each Atlantis project at financial close. Tim Cornelius, chief executive, tell Proactive “having a fund the size and the prestige of Equitix coming alongside to invest in each of our projects really transforms the industry from R&D to full-scale commercial roll-out”.

http://tinyurl.com/hpdbz63 Jeremy Martin, chief executive, Horizonte Minerals PLC (LON:HZM), says that in the current climate of low commodity prices companies have got to be “creative”. He says long term planning is “extremely difficult” but adds that the company is focused on advancing the Araguaia nickel project on a low cost basis, “ensuring that we are putting the milestones down and de-risking it so that when the market returns to normal we are the number one tier-one nickel project to go to”. In the second half of the year, Horizonte will be looking at “securing the funding” to complete its pre-feasibility study on Araguaia, which he says is a “much more competitive project” since the acquisition of the adjacent nickel project from Glencore (LON:GLEN) last year.

http://tinyurl.com/jjqzvxc John Sisay, chief executive of Sierra Rutile Ltd (LON:SRX) says the company had a “fantastic year” against the backdrop of slumping commodity prices and the Ebola crisis in Africa. He adds that while some companies were downsizing, Sierra “chose the brave step to expand in our Gangama project”, all while cutting cash costs. Looking ahead, Sierra said first quarter rutile production is expected to be about 26,000 tonnes, down by a third on the previous quarter but up 11% year-on-year, and confirmed it is trading in line with expectations.

http://tinyurl.com/zm9ahgy Project management and technical consultancy group WYG PLC (LON:WYG) says it did well during the second half of its financial year and expects full-year results to match market expectations. Paul Hamer, chief executive, tells Proactive that the key is “continued momentum” with business in the UK growing by more than 10%, while in Europe, he says the company is winning “a huge amount of new work”. He adds that the firm’s record order book “provides a very solid long term platform for the future”, and that the company is now looking to expand its international footprint in the next six to twelve months.