14th Apr 2026 14:43
(Alliance News) - The following is a round-up of updates by London-listed companies, issued on Tuesday and not separately reported by Alliance News:
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Kefi Gold & Copper PLC - gold and copper exploration and development company targeting Ethiopia and Saudi Arabia - Provides an optimistic business update ahead of its annual general meeting. Welcomes new shareholders, following an oversubscribed placing of shares at 1.2 pence each in March, which raised GBP34 million. Says placing participants will hold around 20% of the company. Placing proceeds will fund the development of the Tulu Kapi project in Ethiopia. Chief Executive Harry Anagnostaras-Adams comments: "Upon today's general meeting passing the resolutions, we will have financed and launched the start-up of perhaps the highest grade-highest recovery, and therefore highest margin, gold development in Africa. And we are doing it in high-growth Ethiopia. We are also doing so in a period of gold price strength as the world is allocating more of its long-term capital into gold. I believe that the current Middle East war only serves to reinforce this trend."
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PetroTal Corp - Calgary, Alberta-based oil producer - Estimates average production of 14,907 barrels of oil per day in the first quarter of 2026, down roughly 2% from the final quarter of 2025, but "slightly ahead of our internal expectations", says CEO Manuel Pablo Zuniga-Pflucker. Average sales price in March is USD90.00 per barrel. As of April 1, PetroTal is hedged on about 900,000 barrels of oil for the remainder of 2026. Cash totals USD128.1 million at the end of March, including USD104.2 million in unrestricted cash, down slightly from USD139.1 million at the end of December, but up from USD113.6 million a year prior. Zuniga-Pflucker hails "a strong start to 2026... which has been further supported by a constructive commodity price environment". The CEO continues: "Looking ahead, our focus over the next six months is on advancing our development program at Bretana. We are in the final stages of securing a contract with a third-party drilling contractor and expect to mobilise a rig to the field in the coming months, with drilling activities targeted to resume by October." PetroTal publishes first-quarter results on May 7.
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DP Poland PLC - operator of Domino's pizza chain restaurants in Poland and Croatia - Says first-quarter trading matched management expectations, "with double‑digit system sales and order growth". Estimates quarterly group system sales of GBP17.2 million, up 18% at constant currency and up 23% on a reported basis. Group system orders rise to GBP1.3 million in the first quarter, up 14% on-year. DP Poland says the consolidation of commissaries into a single facility completed in February. Also notes the addition of six new stores to its network in the first quarter, and conversion of four more Pizzeria 105 locations, with a total of 17 stores converted since acquisition. Reports a total of 141 Domino's stores in Poland and Croatia as of March 31, up 17% on-year. "We are pleased with the performance of the group in Q1 2026 and anticipate double‑digit system sales growth to continue in 2026, supported by the Pizzeria 105 conversion program, continued store rollout and ongoing like‑for‑like growth," DP Poland says. "The Group is targeting over 50% of the Domino's system to be franchised by the end of 2027, alongside continued expansion of the network beyond 200 stores."
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Zenith Energy Ltd - Calgary, Canada-based oil company, which has interests in the US, Italy, and Tunisia - Provides an update on litigation against the state of Tunisia, saying that the country has recognised Zenith's ownership of the Robbana and El Bibane concessions. Says Tunisia has confirmed in writing that Zenith's wholly owned subsidiary Ecumed Petroleum Tunisia Ltd has ownership rights over 3,987 barrels of oil produced since 2022, "which had remained unsold due to repeated obstructions by Tunisian authorities", Zenith claims. Estimates that this recognised inventory is worth around USD400,000 at an oil price of USD100 per barrel. Adds that roughly 8,000 barrels remain stored at Robbana, with a gross value in the region of USD800,000. "Zenith's claimant subsidiaries continue to pursue all available legal remedies through the [International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes]." Adds "that the Robbana production concession has been subject to extensive vandalism and theft, resulting in the site being entirely non-operational for a period of at least one year." Zenith has been engaged in arbitration against Tunisia since 2023, when Canadian North Africa Oil & Gas Ltd, Zenith's wholly-owned subsidiary, filed for around USD639.5 million in total damages. The final hearing of its three arbitrations is slated to begin on April 20.
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hVIVO PLC - London-based contract research organisation testing vaccines for infectious and respiratory diseases - Says it is launching a new "unified brand identity" as it signs a new contract with Nasdaq-listed Traws Pharma Inc. "The rebrand follows the successful integration of Venn Life Sciences, CRS and Cryostore and marks the completion of the group's transition from a specialist services provider to a fully integrated platform supporting clients from preclinical strategy through to Phase II and selected Phase III programmes. All operating companies will now trade under the hVIVO brand, simplifying the group's structure and re-enforcing its single partner model," hVIVO explains. It will operate via four service lines, including consulting, clinical trials, human challenge trials and laboratories. Also signs a clinical trial agreement with Traws Pharma. The trial will use hVIVO's influenza human challenge study model to assess Traws Pharma's prophylactic antiviral candidate, known as tivoxavir marboxil, at hVIVO's London lab.
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By Holly Munks, Alliance News reporter
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