Amryt Pharma PLC (LON:AMYT) has reported increased revenues in the first haf of the year following a jump in sales for its Lojuxta cholesterol drug.
Directa Plus (AIM: DCTA) said the world’s first road has been resurfaced with a supermodifier containing the company’s graphene.The producer of graphene-based products said the road surface is on a section of Rome’s Strada Provinciale Ardeatina. It is part of a commercial test of Ecopave, which is based on Directa’s Graphene Plus graphene product.
Live Company Group Plc (LON:LVCG) is considering an equity fundraising to finance the potential acquisition of a “complementary business” and to “accelerate organic growth”, the media firm said on Wednesday. The group said it was in talks with certain institutional and other investors with regard to a potential fundraising, which is expected to be carried out at a modest discount to the recent prevailing market price.
CentralNic Group PLC (LON:CNIC) saw its adjusted earnings nearly double in the first half of the year, with the company saying it was eyeing further acquisitions going forward.
Allergy vaccines specialist Allergy Therapeutics plc (LON:AGY) continued to gain market share in its most recent fiscal year.
Sareum Holdings Plc (LON:SAR) has selected another candidate molecule to take through the clinic, this time as a potential therapy for certain cancers.
Bushveld Minerals LTD (LON:BMN) delivered £62.1mln in revenue during the six months to June 2018.That translated into profit after tax of £21.1mln, up significantly on the £1.1mln delivered in the corresponding period a year earlier.
Goldplat plc (LON:GDP) produced 35,431 gold equivalent ounces during the year to 30 June 2018, at higher margins. The overall figure represents a 17% decrease over the previous year.
Connemara Mining Company PLC (LON:CON) ended the six months to June 2018 with €366,000 in the bank, after turning in a loss of €160,000. Among the highlights of the period were the establishment of a high-grade maiden resource estimate at the Stonepark zinc joint venture.
The chief executive of ImmuPharma PLC (LON:IMM) has told investors he is excited by the “blockbuster potential” of the company’s flagship lupus treatment, Lupuzor.
Stock market star FairFX Group Plc (LON:FFX) enjoyed a strong first half to 2018 despite the weakness of sterling, and has continued the momentum in the second half.
Corero Network Security PLC (LON:CNS) reported that earnings losses have halved in the first half of the year as sales of its SmartWall DDoS mitigation software surged. BP March
Futura Medical PLC (LON:FUM) expects to dose the first patient in the late-stage study of its MED2002 erectile dysfunction gel within the next few weeks, capping off what has so far been an “excellent” year for the company.
Arix Bioscience Plc (LON:ARIX) investee company LogicBio Therapeutics Inc has filed with the US Securities & Exchange Commission ahead of an IPO that will see the business list on the NASDAQ exchange. LogicBio is a specialist in genome editing that is developing drugs for rare diseases.
OptiBiotix Health plc (LON:OPTI) said it has teamed up with an unnamed pharmaceutical and food supplements group to commercialise its CholBiome product in Bulgaria. With access to 60% of the country’s pharmacies and 15,000 GPs, OptiBiotix’s new partner provides the commercial heft required to get started in this new territory.
Internet domain specialist Minds + Machines PLC (LON:MMX) increased interim revenues by a fifth as use of its names grew by 38%.
Registrations rose to 1.5 million with particularly strong growth in the US, though there has been a recent slow-down in high value one-off sales that will affect top-line revenues.
ITM Power plc (LON:ITM) has, alongside Johnson Matthey Plc (LON: JMAT), announced the opening of the company’s seventh public access hydrogen refuelling station (HRS) - it is located on Johnson Matthey, in Swindon, and is supported by car makers Toyota, Hyundai and Honda.
Kibo Energy PLC (LON:KIBO) told investors that it moved closer to securing permits for the Mbeya coal to Power Project (MCPP) in Tanzania. The company, in a statement, revealed that the mine element of the project had now been recommended for a special mining licence from Tanzania’s mining commission.
LoopUp Group PLC (LON:LOOP) reported strong growth in half year profit and said its recently acquired MeetingZone business would deliver greater cost savings than expected.
The AIM-listed company on Wednesday posted a 65% rise in its adjusted underlying earnings (EBITDA) to £2.7mln on revenue 39% higher at £12mln.
Sound Energy PLC (LON:SOU) said chief executive James Parsons has exercised a total of 1,250,000 options to subscribe for new ordinary shares in the company at an exercise price of 14.2p per share.
Virtual reality (VR) technology provider Immotion Group PLC (LON:IMMO) expects its VR revenue to grow significantly in the second half of the year after it posted its maiden interim results. The provider of ‘out of home’ VR experiences, which floated on AIM in July, posted a maiden operating loss of £1.5mln in the six months to the end of June on revenues of £0.55mln.
Africa-focused property trust Grit Real Estate Income Group Limited (LON:GR1T) increased net assets by 6% in the latest half year, while the number of investments rose to 22. The group raised US$132.2mln through a listing on the main market in London in July to expand a portfolio that already encompasses assets in Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, Ghana and Mauritius.
Kibo Energy PLC (LON:KIBO) told investors that it moved closer to securing permits for the Mbeya coal to Power Project (MCPP) in Tanzania. The company, in a statement, revealed that the mining element of the project had now been recommended for a special mining licence from Tanzania’s mining commission.
Galantas Gold Corporation (LON:GAL) has raised C$1.57mln after issuing issued 22,137,619 common shares in a private placement. Proceeds will be used for working capital purposes and to continue underground development at the Omagh gold mine in Northern Ireland.
Tavistock Investments PLC (LON:TAVI) continues to trade profitability across its advisory and investment management businesses, the company said in an AGM statement on Wednesday.