Diamonds lose their polish
Falling diamond prices are making many small diamond mines uneconomic and things are expected to get worse before they get better. Diamonds used to be very different from other minerals. They did not suffer from the cycles where prices soared and then slumped. Diamonds would steadily rise in price over the years. The risk was all in the exploration side where it can take many millions of pounds to find and develop a mine.
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Fund set up to provide investment for small Aim companies
At last there is some good news for small, soundly based companies. Aim broker Alexander David Securities Group has launched a new EIS Fund, which will focus its investments on existing Aim companies that require cash to help them to grow their business. More
African Medical Investments
Isle of Man-registered African Medical Investments raised £5.1m at 10p a share when it joined Aim on 27 June 2008, which valued the company at £5.6m. More
Imaginatik
Imaginatik provides collaborative software and consultancy for innovation management and problem solving. The core software product is called Idea Central. More
Bright Things
Bright Things has wound down its original interactive DVD business and is concentrating on social networks maker SocialGo. More
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Blinded by numbers
A few years ago Aim and many others were crowing when the number of companies on Aim reached 1,000. More
- 2.4mNumber of messages posted on SocialGo networks
- $38mCost savings generated by ideas from WalMart staff over a two month period
- 19.4m
Number of people passing through Johannesburg Airport in 2007
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Sanderson Group
Enterprise software provider Sanderson Group is continuing to benefit from growth in multi-channel retailing.
Resources In Insurance Group
Claims management services provider Resources In Insurance Group has slashed its loss in 2011.
atUK
e-commerce services provider @UK has gained a four year national e-commerce framework agreement for all UK public bodies.
Hydrogen Group
Recruitment firm Hydrogen Group says that net fee income for the first four months of 2012 was higher than the same period last year.
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