Nadhim Zahawi is to move from online polling to the political sort after deciding to step down as chief executive of AIM-listed market researcher YouGov and stand as a Conservative candidate in the forthcoming general election.
Already identified as best-in-class, the deserving winners of the recent Quoted Company Awards, presented by Growth Company Investor, are well worth backing. Oliver Haill reports
Professor Mike Thwaites and his Hampshire neighbour Barry Holton are tapping wealthy backers for £1 million to advance their company, Plasma Quest, which claims to have the new generation of thin film technique, able to provide ever thinner layers that are exact in microscopic depth and able to put materials onto heat-sensitive plastic and other surfaces.
Veteran Australian oilman Alan Burns, the man who sold Hardman Resources and its celebrated prospects in Uganda to Tullow Oil for £650 million, is noted for his adroit sense of timing.
Yorkshire-born Deborah White, chief executive of bombed-out but newly ambitious digital media and technology outfit Milestone Group, is poised for a bracing few months as the company emerges from two years of ‘fire fighting’.
As currency markets blow cold on sterling, Robert Tyerman looks at some potential winners from the pound’s discomfort
Global tech sector M&A activity grew for the third consecutive quarter in Q4 2009, bringing optimism about further deals in 2010. Against this backdrop, directors have been buying throughout February
Diamonds are making the news again, as rough gem prices continue to recover from recessionary lows
This year has already left many shaken and stirred, with the optimistic start to 2010 quickly fading before a considerable global sell-off in stocks and some massive moves in currencies
After three years of poor performance, Jupiter’s Richard Curling delivered a 50 per cent return in 2009 but says good returns are still difficult to find
The AIM IPO scene appears to be rather blurred at present, with as many companies joining the market as shelving floats at the last minute
AIM has a long tail of very small companies, most of them drifting along and worth ducking. However, investors prepared to sift through the minnows can fish out the odd bargain
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Potential bid candidate Cluff Gold produced 19,288 oz of gold in West Africa in the first two months of the year.
As foreshadowed in the latest Growth Company Investor, investment minnow Brainspark is buying into Italian football club AC Ancona.
Gold producer Avocet Mining hopes its Wega acquisition will take 2010 group output to 200,000 oz after a flat nine months.
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