Mporium Group PLC (LON:MPM) has sealed a strategic partnership with BPC Land Sales and Marketing, which acts for some of the UK's largest house builders. The pair will deploy Mporium’s IMPACT product to help guide the marketing of newly built properties.
Goldplat plc (LON:GDP) chief executive Gerard Kisbey-Green has said the firm remains confident its strategic initiatives will yield “improved results” going forward despite the “very difficult quarter”.
Bluebird Merchant Ventures PLC (LON:BMV) has made the required expenditure to farm-in to the Kochang mine in South Korea. Under the terms of the agreement, Bluebird was required to inject A$250,000 into partner Southern Gold and spend a minimum of US$250,000 on a feasibility report into reopening the mine.
Arix Bioscience Plc (LON:ARIX) has noted that one of its group businesses, Autolus Therapeutics PLC (NASDAQ: AUTL) will present one oral and two poster presentations related to its AUTO3 and AUTO5 programs at the 60th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition, to be held December 1-4, 2018 in San Diego, California. The group said the announcement can be accessed on Autolus' investor website.
ADES International Holding Ltd. (LON:ADES), the leading oil & gas drilling and production services provider in the Middle East and North Africa, announced that it has completed the acquisition of twelve onshore rigs from Weatherford International PLC in Kuwait. The group said the transaction forms part of the previously signed definitive agreement with a subsidiary of Weatherford to acquire thirty-one onshore drilling rigs for a total consideration of US$ 287.5mln across Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Southern Iraq.
Kibo Energy PLC (LON:KIBO) is confident that TANESCO’s decision to cancel the tender process is more of a postponement and will have little effect on the company’s Mbeya Coal to Power project in Tanzania. The AIM-quoted firm owns a thermal coal deposit near Mbeya in southern Tanzania, where it is developing MCPP – a 250-350 megawatt mouth-of-mine thermal power station.
Vast Resources PLC (LON:VAST) said it has successfully raised £1mln through a share placing. The AIM-listed miner said it had raised the funds through the placing of around 189mln new shares at a price of 0.53p each, on par with its last closing price.
Africa-focused metals explorer Cradle Arc PLC (LON:CRA) has appointed Credit Suisse’s former general counsel James Turnbull as a non-executive director. The firmalso revealed that Michael Golding and Oscar Kirkovits have resigned from the board with immediate effect to pursue their other business interests.
Next 15 Communications Group PLC (LON:NFC) said it has successfully completed the fund-raising announced on 1 November, with a total of 4,210,526 new ordinary shares in the company placed by Numis Securities at a price of 475p each via an accelerated bookbuild, raising proceeds of £20mln before expenses. The placing shares issued represent approximately 5.3% of the company’s issued ordinary share capital.
Echo Energy Plc (LON:ECHO), the Latin American focused upstream oil and gas company, has announced the appointment of Dr Gavin Graham as an independent non-executive director of the company with immediate effect. The group pointed out that Graham has nearly 40 years' experience in the oil & gas industry, with 29 of those years at Royal Dutch Shell PLC (LON:RDSA).
Anglo Pacific Group PLC (LON:APF) (TSX:APY) has announced the appointment of Vanessa Dennett as an independent non-executive director of the company, effective from 1 November 2018. The group said Dennett is a highly experienced mining executive, most recently as Senior Legal Counsel at Anglo American PLC (LON:AAL), specialising in M&A transactions and joint ventures.