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Geoff Wild, AZ's Chief Executive Officer, commented: "Our collaboration with Rice provides AZ with an exciting opportunity to bring new material solutions to our customers to help create the next generation of electronic devices. Rice's innovative approach to materials science coupled with AZ's industry-leading formulation and scale-up capabilities, plus our global presence supporting the key display manufacturing infrastructure, will allow us to develop novel carbon-type solutions for the flexible display industry."

AZ licenses technology from Rice University to explore materials for flexible displays AZ Electronic Materials S.A. ("AZ" or "Group") announces that it has entered into licensing and sponsored research agreements with William Marsh Rice University ("Rice") in the field of graphene nanoribbons ("GNRs") for application to electronic and advanced optical devices. Use of carbon materials such as carbon nanotubes ("CNTs") and GNRs is increasingly an area of interest within the electronics industry, particularly where cost efficiency and improved technical performance characteristics are key factors in the development of transparent and flexible electronics. Under the licensing agreement with Rice - a world-leading research university based in Houston, Texas - AZ receives exclusive worldwide rights to several patent families covering the preparation methods and application of GNRs. The technology provides potentially lower cost routes to produce functional GNRs from commercially available carbon sources such as CNTs. The sponsored research agreement will complement an internal program that AZ has initiated on GNRs and related materials at its US facility in Branchburg, New Jersey.

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Commenting, William Dewsall, Chief Executive of Gable Holdings Inc., said: "We are delighted to be working with such experienced partners in the Danish market and to be launching our first product in Denmark. Our latent defect policy has been very successful in the French arena since its launch in 2010 and we believe that we will see another successful launch in the Danish market. "In the UK, we will be providing ATE cover to the new £60 million fund and are delighted to be working with the experienced team who have identified a strong area of growth in the UK market where ATE business is currently in excess of £1 billion of premium per annum and we see this area as a major opportunity for Gable. "The current year continues to trade in line with our expectations and, as the two new programmes of business announced today demonstrate, Gable can look forward to a very strong year of continued growth in 2013."

New Programme of ATE business in the UK Gable has also secured a major new After The Event ('ATE') fund client in the UK which provides legal funding to claimants in the UK PPI and financial litigation market. The new business will be written under a rolling policy with monthly cover enabling the claims management company on behalf of the ATE fund, to attach a minimum of three thousand cases a month with projected annualised gross written premium for 2013 of circa £3 million. Gable's ATE product will provide pecuniary loss cover to support claims on behalf of claimants. The pecuniary loss arises if the claims made on behalf of the claimants fail to secure recovery of compensation.

Major new programme for UK ATE product Gable Holdings (AIM: GAH.L), the European non-life insurance company, is delighted to announce two new business agreements projected to add in excess of £10 million in annualised gross written premium. Launch of first product in Denmark Gable has launched its first product into the Danish market where it has commenced writing a programme of business for its Property Liability product with projected gross written premiums of DKK70 million (£7.5 million) annualised in 2013. Gable is delighted to be working along side Husejernes Forsikring Assurance Agentur AS, whose management team has over 25 years experience working in the insurance sector, also with the highly respected Howden Insurance Brokers AB and claims lawyers, TRønne & Lundgren Law firm, one of the largest and most experienced law firms in this area in Denmark .

Adjusted profit before tax for the year was £8.2m (2011 £10.8m). Adjusted basic earnings per share were 28.2p (2011 38.0p) a fall of 26%. Reported basic earnings per share were 24.4p (2011 35.5p).

Prospects Although the global macroeconomic outlook remains uncertain in the short term, Gooch & Housego's markets continue to exhibit attractive long term structural growth drivers as a result of the continued global investment in optical technologies. We remain of the view that the Aerospace & Defence sector has the potential to deliver significant growth for Gooch & Housego despite near-term delays and uncertainty resulting from budgetary constraints and political uncertainty in the US. With our highly specialised capabilities, Gooch & Housego is well positioned to address a growing demand for photonic technology in what is likely to be a shrinking overall market. In Life Sciences we are exploiting similarly unique capabilities in OCT and diagnostics, both of which are high-value, high-growth markets. Diversification within the Industrial sector into fields such as sensing, metrology and semiconductor equipment is progressively reducing our historic dependence on the Q-switch and the industrial laser market, although we are committed to maintaining our dominant position in this field. To provide long term sustainable growth and increased resilience to market cyclicality and macro-economic uncertainties, we will continue to execute our strategy of diversification and moving up the value-chain through a combination of organic R&D and strategic acquisitions.

Order book As at 30 September 2012, the Group order book stood at £24.9m, compared to £28.5m at the end of the 2011 financial year, a 13% fall. On a like for like basis, excluding the impact of foreign exchange, the order book is 11% lower. Book to bill ratios for the business as a whole were 1.01 times (six month rolling average) as at 30 September 2012, compared to 0.88 times for the same period last year. This is a reflection of the strong order performance over the last six months of the 2012 financial year in which £33.3m of orders were booked.

Gareth Jones, CEO commented: - "We have made good progress in executing our strategy of establishing a more diversified, resilient and broadly-based business. After a difficult first half we have delivered results in line with our revised expectations in a difficult trading environment."

Operating & Strategic Highlights · Satisfactory result for the year following a stronger second half performance · Net debt reduced, with continued focus on cash generation · Investment in key management to deliver growth and strategic objectives · Acquisitions now fully assimilated into the business · Strategy of diversification adds resilience

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KENYA FLUORSPAR DISPOSAL LONDON, UK -- (Marketwire - 27 November 2012) Fluormin Plc (AIM: FLOR) announces that pursuant to an agreement entered into on 9 March 2012, whereby the Company sold its 20% interest in Kenya Fluorspar Company Limited for an aggregate sale price of US$13 million (the "Consideration"), the outstanding balance of the Consideration equating to US$6.5 million has now been received by the Company and the sale satisfactorily completed.

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Commenting on the results, Chairman of Next 15, Richard Eyre, said: Next 15, a worldwide digital communications group, is pleased to report that it has continued to trade well with strong operational performances from almost every part of the Group. This success has been underpinned by the Group's early transition from traditional PR to digital and social marketing services. As I reported last year, this strategy is giving the Group access to new revenue streams and helping drive growth in many global markets. The transition is being driven both through organic expansion and targeted acquisitions. While the global economy continues to struggle, Next 15 continues to deliver revenue and earnings growth with a strong balance sheet.”

Operational highlights: Adjusted pre-tax profit margin increased to 10.5% from 9.8% last year Net debt increased by just £1.0m year on year to £2.6m, despite spending of £5.7m on acquisition related payments2 Acquired 80% of the issued share capital of two German-based businesses, Trademark PR and Trademark Consulting, to be integrated within the Bite Communications group Acquired the remaining 20% of CMG Worldwide Limited (trading as Bourne) that the Group did not already own Acquired a 71.8% shareholding in Paratus Communications Limited, a small UK-based corporate and consumer agency integrated within Lexis Acquisition of Content & Motion in August 2012, providing Beyond with a talented social media team creating programmes that drive engagement through blogger and media outreach and clients' owned social media presences

FINAL RESULTS ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 JULY 2012 Next Fifteen Communications Group plc (‘Next 15’ or ‘the Group’), the worldwide digital communications group, today announces its final audited results for the year ended 31 July 2012. Financial highlights: Revenues increased by 6% to £91.6m (2011: £86.0m) Adjusted profit before tax increased by 14% to £9.6m (2011: £8.4m) (see note 3) Profit before tax decreased by 21% to £6.0m (2011: £7.5m) after the impact of fraudulent activity (see Chairman’s statement) Diluted adjusted earnings per share increased by 15% to 10.07p (2011: 8.74p) (see note 8) Basic earnings per share decreased by 25% to 6.85p (2011: 9.10p) (see note 8) Final dividend of 1.735p per share (2011: 1.535p), raising the total dividend by 12% to 2.30p (2011: 2.05p) Adjusted EBITDA1 increased to £11.2m from £10.7m in the comparative period

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Outlook The actions we have taken to reposition the Group have enabled us to make progress in spite of headwinds in the UK economy. The new financial year has started well, the balance sheet remains strong and we remain confident that further progress will be made as we continue to execute our strategy.