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The boss says ""I firmly believe that the business is now well placed for robust future growth and I look forward to providing further positive news for the Company's shareholders in the future."

Highlights · Turnover increased to £6,054,000 (6 months 2009: £1,726,000) · Adjusted* EBITA of £14,000 (6 months 2009: £204,000) · Loss for the period before tax of £6,273,000, (6 months 2009: Profit of £196,000) · The loss for the period before tax includes an impairment charge of £4,500,000 in relation to the acquisition of Xploite plc ("Xploite") · 70 new contracts signed during the period with an aggregate value in excess of £3,200,000 · More than £1,000,000 of annualised cost savings achieved since the acquisition of Xploite in April 2010 · Disposed of loss making South African operations resulting in a gain on disposal of £381,000 · Since the completion of the six month period the Board has successfully reached an agreement to settle a claim received by Xploite, prior to the acquisition, for an immediate payment of only £300,000 against an original claim amount of £4,500,000. The maximum potential settlement has been capped at £600,000

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+8% going well on results

Looking good. Avisen, the acquisitive performance management specialist, has this morning released its results for the six months ended 31st July 2010. Although the group is still completing its integration of the earlier Xploite acquisition, Avisen has continued to drive its operations ahead and the second quarter performances suggest that our existing full year expectations appear achievable. The group underwent a fundamental transformation in scale and opportunity through the Xploite acquisition, which makes comparison of the financial performance with the prior year period meaningless. For example, sales revenues for the continuing operations were £6.054 million compared with £5.906 million for the entire 2010 financial year; similarly gross profit was £2.055 million (2010: £2.231 million), EBITDA (before exceptional charges) was a profit of £0.035 million compared with a loss of £2.754 million while the loss per share on a similar basis was 3.32p against 2.11p. Following the 28th April 2010 acquisition of Xploite, Avisen commenced an intense restructuring and integration programme that has resulted in over £1 million of annualised operational expenses being removed as well as the disposal to management of the small South African operation, Avisen (PTY) Limited. Consequently, Avisen incurred exceptional charges of £6.218 million, of which £4.765 million related to an initial impairment to the intangible carrying value for Xploite of £4.765 million while strategic, integration and other costs amounted to £1.453 million. Nevertheless, management has remained focused on business development and the group has signed 70 new contracts with an aggregate value in excess of £3.2 million and currently over 23% of turnover is recurrent due to the expansion of annual support and maintenance contracts.

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source for dates. hemscott.co.uk

Luis da Silva, President and CEO of African Aura commented: "We are incredibly pleased with the metallurgical test results from the Putu project which indicate substantially improved recoveries and higher concentrates to what had previously been modelled by Amdel on early-stage less representative samples taken in 2008. With our joint venture partner, Severstal Resources, the project is moving forward rapidly, with four drill rigs conducting an initial 62,000m resource definition programme, of which over 14,000m had been completed as at mid-September 2010. The existing 43-101 resource of 1.08 billion tonnes sits within 22% of the project's estimated 13km strike length. As the current drilling campaign covers an increasingly higher percentage of the total ridge and as we learn more about the structure of the ore body and types of ore, we anticipate an increase in confidence of the resource as we progress towards our minimum target of 2 billion tonnes. Putu is shaping up to be a significant iron ore deposit and we look forward to keeping shareholders updated on progress."