Centaur launches GBP64 million tender offer, plans to go private
(Alliance News) - Centaur Media PLC announced the launch of a tender offer on Friday, alongside its plans to delist from the London Stock Exchange. Read More
(Alliance News) - Centaur Media PLC announced the launch of a tender offer on Friday, alongside its plans to delist from the London Stock Exchange. Read More
Investec PLC and Ltd - Sandton-based financial services company - Announces the results of its tender offer for holders of its 2.63% callable fixed rate resettable subordinated notes due 2031, which are worth GBP350.0 million in total. The tender offer expired on Thursday afternoon. Investec says notes worth a total principal amount of GBP305.5 million have been validly tendered, and that its final acceptance amount is GBP294.2 million. Notes outstanding after the settlement date, expected to be Monday, are expected to total GBP55.8 million. Read More
(Alliance News) - Stock prices in London were higher at midday on Friday, as markets reacted to US President Donald Trump's nomination of former Federal Reserve governor Kevin Warsh to succeed Jerome Powell as chair of the US central bank. Read More
Cohort PLC - Reading, England-based technology company - Announces that its subsidiary Marlborough Communications Ltd has been awarded a contract with a total value of GBP14.0 million by a UK government customer for immediate delivery of uncrewed air systems. The contract includes an in-service support for two years. Read More
(Alliance News) - Chrysalis Investments Ltd on Friday reported "immaterial" quarterly investment activity in its portfolio, although its largest investment, Starling, performed well. Read More
Kore Potash PLC – London-based owner of the Kola and DX potash projects in Republic of Congo – Says it continues to engage with two suitors that made approaches to take over Kore Potash early in November. Notes that the formal sale process since November has seen site visits and due diligence. Also says it is still awaiting formal instructions from authorities in the Republic of Congo as to the government-owned entity that will hold the government's 10% free carry stake. Says Mines Minister Louis Watum Kabamba in the Republic of Congo has expressed his full support for the formal sale process. Read More
(Alliance News) - Chinese sanctions against British MPs and peers have been lifted following Keir Starmer's talks with Xi Jinping – but the group of parliamentarians affected warned they should not be used as a "bargaining chip" in talks with Beijing. Read More
(Alliance News) - Roundhouse Digital Ltd on Friday started trading on London's Aquis Growth Market. Read More
(Alliance News) - Avon Technologies PLC on Friday said it is on track to meet or exceed the full-year guidance provided at its results in November, as it reported progress in the first quarter of its financial year. Read More
(Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers on AIM on Friday. Read More
(Alliance News) - ICG Enterprise Trust PLC on Friday increased its dividend guidance as it posted a higher net asset value at the end of the third quarter. Read More
(Alliance News) - The following stocks are the leading risers and fallers among London Main Market small-caps on Friday. Read More
IG Group Holdings PLC - London-based online trading platform operator - Completes acquisition of Australian cryptocurrency exchange Independent Reserve, having received regulatory approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore. The deal, worth an initial AUD178.0 million, or GBP86.8 million, was announced in September. IG says it expects to launch an Independent Reserve-powered crypto proposition for customers in Singapore, Australia and the United Arab Emirates, in the second half of this year. Read More
(Alliance News) - Ireland's annual harmonised consumer price index inflation rate decelerated in January, data published by the Central Statistics Office showed Friday. Read More
Gemfields Group Ltd - London-based miner and marketer of coloured gemstones - Says auction revenue drops 34% to USD129 million in 2025 from USD196 million in 2024, and drops 47% from USD242 million in 2023. Notes that the second processing plant at Montepuez Ruby Mining Ltda in Mozambique is now in its final commissioning stage, with the project being delivered materially on budget. Expects commissioning to be completed "imminently". Says it looks forward to introducing the first rubies produced by this plant to the market at the February 2026 mixed-quality ruby auction. Read More