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Articles, news and analysis on London’s Alternative Investment Market.

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Kent plans AIM comeback

Andrew Kent, the entrepreneurial financier whose City role seemed finished with the controversial demise of stockbroker TC Coombs more than a decade ago, is lining up a string of eye-catching AIM floats.

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Timestrip backs onto AIM

Label technology venture Timestrip arrived on AIM today, following its reverse takeover of cash shell Internet Music & Media (IMM) and having raised just over £2 million en route.

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Qonnectis moves from OFEX to AIM

Meter-reading technology developer Qonnectis has completed its graduation from OFEX to AIM – raising a net £1.2 million, to fund its expansion plans, with the aid of broker HB Corporate.

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Exits from AIM

Listing on AIM can not only help growing businesses fund their expansion plans and increase corporate profile but can hasten the routes to exit too – as latest research from Business XL magazine reveals.

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Sarantel on its way to AIM

Advanced antenna maker Sarantel will be hoping for a good reception when it arrives on AIM next month via a £15 million placing.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Acquisitions on AIM

AIM has long been regarded as Europe's most successful growth company market, however, it is also a hive of mergers and acquisition activity - as new research from Business XL magazine reveals.

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AIM lesson for AEC

AIM's drive to attract more international companies appears to be bearing fruit, as educational course provider AEC Education has become the first Singaporean company to apply for a sole listing on the market.

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Ventus tests AIM wind

Stockbroker Brewin Dolphin has come up with a venture capital trust unlike any other. The Ventus VCT wants to raise £25 million purely to invest in a spread of ‘small on-shore UK wind farm projects’.

Financial Management

Annual survey of AIM executive salaries – The cost of leadership

Some AIM CEOs receive next to no salary, others are walking away with millions — on average they are paid a handsome six-figure sum. GrowthBusiness investigates.

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Begbies Traynor takes ‘haircut’

Insolvency practitioner Begbies Traynor has raised only £4.9 million on joining AIM, rather than the £12 million it wanted to pull in.

Company Flotations

Why I think small companies should join AIM

When the Stock Exchange set up AIM, the junior stock market, in 1995, I believed they had got it all wrong. But 900 companies are proving that the demand for it was huge.

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SmartFocus seeks AIM listing

Arbuthnot has been appointed broker to software concern SmartFocus ahead of the fast-growing company’s proposed flotation on AIM this September.