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RNS Number : 2722Y

First Derivatives PLC

02 March 2017

 

2 March 2017

 

First Derivatives plc

("FD" or the "Group")

 

Contract Win

 

FD (AIM: FDP.L, ESM: FDP.I) announces that it has signed a contract with a Fortune 500 engineering solutions company for the use of its Kx technology within precision manufacturing. Kx has been selected as the high-performance, time-series data historian and analytics platform in the next version of the client's fault detection product range, expected to be released in mid-2017. The client expects the use of Kx to provide a competitive advantage in its market and has therefore asked not to be named at this stage.

 

The client is a leading supplier of precision fault detection solutions which enable its customers to increase productivity, improve quality and maximise manufacturing equipment efficiency. The fault detection solution takes readings from thousands of sensors providing rapid ingestion, complex event processing, and compares these readings to historical data to detect anomalies and potential faults. With increasing numbers of sensors and frequency of readings now taking place, the performance of the client's existing solution had become sub-optimal and, following a successful proof of concept, it has decided to replace it with Kx. Initial benchmarking shows that, by incorporating Kx, the product is capable of handling many millions of sensor reads per second, representing a significant change in the product's performance and scalability.  

 

FD will receive revenue as existing customers of the fault detection solution upgrade to the version powered by Kx. The total expected value over a five year period places this contract amongst some of the larger software contracts FD has signed.  In addition to the use of Kx within its fault detection solutions, the client has identified additional potential uses of Kx within its operations and FD is working with the client to develop these additional opportunities.

 

The use of Kx for fault detection is one application of the use of sensor data to aid efficiency within manufacturing, also known as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). According to ABI Research, the addressable market for analytics and other value-added services for the IIoT is expected to reach $80-120 billion by 2018.

 

Brian Conlon, Chief Executive Officer of FD, commented: "This is a flagship contract win for Kx in the Industrial Internet of Things, secured through our ability to demonstrate higher performance, greater scalability, and lower total cost of ownership than competing solutions. We see considerable potential for Kx to establish itself as a market-leading solution for streaming analytics on sensor data, particularly within manufacturing environments."

 

For further information please contact:

First Derivatives plc Brian Conlon, Chief Executive Officer Graham Ferguson, Chief Financial Officer Ian Mitchell, Head of Investor Relations	+44(0)28 3025 2242 www.firstderivatives.com
Investec Bank plc (Nominated Adviser and Broker) Dominic Emery Carlton Nelson Sebastian Lawrence	+44 (0)20 7597 4000
Goodbody (ESM Adviser and Broker) Linda Hickey Finbarr Griffin	+353 1 667 0420
FTI Consulting Matt Dixon / Dwight Burden / Antonia Gray	+44 (0)20 3727 1000

 

About FD

FD is a global technology provider with 20 years of experience. The Group's Kx technology is used by some of the world's largest finance, technology and energy institutions. FD employs over 1,700 people worldwide and has operations in London, New York, Stockholm, Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Sydney, Palo Alto, Toronto, Philadelphia, Dublin, Belfast and its headquarters in Newry.

 

For further information, please visit www.firstderivatives.com

 

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RNS Number : 1419Y

Northern Petroleum PLC

01 March 2017

 

Northern Petroleum Plc

("Northern Petroleum" or "the Company")

Onshore Italy seismic programme

Northern Petroleum (AIM: NOP), the AIM quoted oil and gas company focusing on production led growth balanced with high impact exploration and appraisal opportunities, announces that Shell Italia E&P S.p.A ("Shell") has initiated a local engagement programme in relation to the Cascina Alberto permit, onshore northern Italy.

The programme is being undertaken in advance of the submission of an Environmental Impact Assessment ("EIA") necessary to conduct a geophysical survey. The programme includes up to 200 meetings with local authorities, communities and stakeholders to gather information and opinion to assist with the EIA submission. Field work for the seismic survey is expected to begin in 2018 following approval of the EIA. Northern Petroleum owns a 20 per cent. non-operated working interest and is carried for the seismic acquisition up to a gross cost of US$4 million.

Keith Bush, Chief Executive Officer of Northern Petroleum, commented:

"Shell have demonstrated great commitment in progressing this exploration opportunity, even during the recent industry downturn. The views of local stakeholders are important when planning any type of operational work and we support Shell's inclusive approach during the EIA process.

"Cascina Alberto represents an important part of the Company's strategy of creating three to four company changing events over the next few years, something that will enhance the value of the sustainable production growth in Canada."

 

The Cascina Alberto licence

The Cascina Alberto exploration permit covers an area of 462 square kilometres across the Piedmont and Lombardy regions.

The area was held in the late 1990s by ENI and was the subject of a farm-in by Enterprise Oil in 2000. The exploration focus was on a prospect which ENI had interpreted as holding 300 million barrels of prospective resource. The structure of the prospect was believed to be similar to the nearby Villafortuna-Trecate field, located 25 kilometres to the south east and one of the largest onshore oil fields discovered in western Europe, having produced in excess of 210 million barrels of oil to date.

Northern Petroleum was awarded the permit in July 2014 and, after being approached by Shell, completed the farm out in early 2015. Shell acquired 80 per cent. of the permit and operatorship for a cash consideration of US$850,000, a carry for seismic acquisition of up to US$4 million gross cost, a carry on an exploration well of up to US$50 million gross cost and a carry on all ongoing general and administrative costs.

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For further information please contact:

Northern Petroleum Plc                                                                                                        Tel: +44 (0)20 7469 2900

Keith Bush, Chief Executive Officer

Nick Morgan, Finance Director

 

Stockdale Securities Limited (Nomad and Joint Broker)                                         Tel: +44 (0)20 7601 6100

Antonio Bossi

David Coaten

 

FirstEnergy Capital LLP (Joint Broker)                                                                              Tel: +44 (0)20 7448 0200

Jonathan Wright

 

Note to Editors:

Northern Petroleum is an oil and gas company focused on production led growth. The Company is undertaking a redevelopment and production project in north west Alberta and has a broader portfolio of exploration and appraisal opportunities in countries of relatively low political risk, primarily Italy. Comprehensive information on Northern Petroleum and its oil and gas operations, including press releases, annual reports and interim reports are available from Northern Petroleum's website: www.northernpetroleum.com

 

 

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RNS Number : 9770X

SpaceandPeople PLC

28 February 2017

 

SpaceandPeople plc ("SpaceandPeople")

Promotional and MPK Contract with Primesight's Airport Portfolio

SpaceandPeople (AIM: SAL), the retail, promotional and brand experience specialist, is pleased to announce it has been awarded the exclusive rights to promote brands and manage promotional space across Primesight's airport portfolio in the UK.

SpaceandPeople now has the exclusive rights to promote brand activity across six major airports in the UK including London Gatwick, London Stanstead, Manchester and London Luton. This contract reinforces SpaceandPeople's position as Europe's biggest company selling experiential media.

As well as brand experience promotions, the contract will include the installation of several SpaceandPeople's Mobile Promotions Kiosks into airports for the first time.

 

Sarah Parkes – Managing Director – Primesight Airport said "We are delighted to be working with SpaceandPeople on our airport network. Their experience at major transit hubs including all the London Railway stations as well as their extensive geographic network of venue locations make them the perfect choice of partner for our prestigious portfolio of high footfall airports."

 

Matthew Bending – CEO – SpaceandPeople said "We are excited to be working with Primesight on their airport network. This will deliver key brand experiences and promotions which will complement the customer demographic and add further vibrancy to the airports."

 

 

Contact details:

 

SpaceandPeople Plc	0845 241 8215
Matthew Bending, Gregor Dunlay
Cantor Fitzgerald Europe	020 7894 7000
David Foreman, Will Goode (Corporate Finance)
David Banks, Alex Pollen (Sales)

 

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RNS Number : 7346X

EU Supply PLC

24 February 2017

 

24 February 2017

EU Supply plc

("EU Supply", the "Company" or the "Group")

 

Grant award

 

EU Supply (LSE AIM: EUSP), the e-procurement software provider, is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a grant from the European Union for the development of additional features to its CTM™ platform (the "Grant").

 

The Grant is expected to be worth up to €120,000 and to be received during 2017. It has been awarded for the development of certain additional features to the Company's CTM™ platform in order to meet new legislative requirements in the EU/EEC countries.  

 

 

               

 

FURTHER ENQUIRIES

EU Supply PLC Tel: 020 7127 4545 Thomas Beergrehn, CEO   Mattias Ström, CFO       Stockdale Securities Tel: 020 7601 6100 Tom Griffiths, David Coaten

 

A copy of this announcement is available at www.eu-supply.com.

 

Notes to Editors

EU Supply is the UK holding company of the EU Supply Group, a Sweden-based e-commerce business, which has an established, market-leading, multilingual e-procurement platform for esourcing, e-tendering and contract management, tailored for the highly regulated European public sector market.

Since 2006, the Group has invested heavily in employing specialist programmers to add functionality, legal compliance as required and security features to its Complete Tender Management™ ("CTM™") platform to ensure that the Group is ideally placed to secure new contracts with EU Member States and their Contracting Authorities. The platform is available in 16 different languages.

The Directors believe that the Group's CTM™ platform is one of the easiest to use and most functionally advanced solutions available in the market. The CTM™ platform is used by over 7,000 European public sector bodies in 9 EU/EEC Member States and has National Procurement System status in four Member States (the UK, Ireland, Norway and Lithuania).

The Company's shares were admitted to trading on AIM in November 2013. In August and September 2015, the Company raised a total of £2.061m (before expenses) through a placing of new shares and the issue of first and second tranches of Convertible Loan Notes to institutional and other investors.

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Fitbug Holdings PLC

22 February 2017

 

 

 

Fitbug Holdings Plc / Epic: FITB.L / Index: AIM / Sector: Leisure

 

 

RNS REACH ANNOUNCEMENT (NON-REGULATORY):

 

22 February 2017

 

FITBUG HOLDINGS PLC ('FITBUG' OR 'THE COMPANY')

 

Non-regulatory – new client contract win

Fitbug Holdings Plc (AIM: FITB), the AIM quoted digital wellness provider for corporate organisations, is pleased to announce a new contract for a one year programme to serve select UK-based employees of an international FMCG company. This programme will be administered in collaboration with Olympic gold medallist Sally Gunnell, OBE.

Fitbug can confirm an initial contract value of £36,000 in revenue, but client confidentiality does not allow for the disclosure of further details at this time.

 

**ENDS**

 

For further information visit www.fitbugholdings.com 

 

Contact:

 

Anna Gudmundson / Donald Stewart	Fitbug Holdings Plc	020 7449 4949
Mark Brady / Neil Baldwin	SPARK Advisory Partners Limited (Nominated Advisor)	020 3368 3551
Claire Louise Noyce / William Lynne / Niall Pearson	Hybridan LLP, Broker	020 3764 2341
Stephanie Forrest	T/F/D, Public Relations	07917 695755

 

 

Notes

About Fitbug®

Fitbug provides digital wellness solutions that empower employers to create a positive culture of health within their organisation. By helping employees to embrace a healthier way of living, Fitbug can help maximise performance, reduce absenteeism, decrease the risk of chronic illness, and lower healthcare costs.

 

The Company's technological edge allows it to address holistic wellness by engaging both individuals and teams through intelligent, personalised interaction and gamification. The progress of individuals translates to actionable data, meaningful reporting and insights that allow the organisation to monitor the impact of the programme and to refine it in order to achieve success.

 

About RNS Reach announcements

RNS Reach is an investor communication service aimed at assisting listed and unlisted (including AIM quoted) companies to distribute media only / non-regulatory news releases such as marketing messages, corporate and product information into the public domain.   An RNS Regulatory announcement is required to be notified under the AIM Rules for Companies.

 

Fitbug's shares are admitted to trading on the London Stock Exchange AIM market under ticker FITB.

 

 

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RNS Number : 0162X

Cronin Group PLC

16 February 2017

 

16 February 2017

 

Cronin Group Plc

(the "Company")

 

Digital Chemistry to be performed in space

Cronin Group Plc, the AIM listed company with a business activity of the digitization of chemical space is pleased to note that an experiment designed by its scientific founder is to be carried out on a DIDO2 nano-satellite, successfully launched yesterday on an Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) rocket.

 

Prof Lee Cronin, the University of Glasgow Regius Chair of Chemistry and Founding Scientific Director of the Company, designed the experiment in partnership with SpacePharma, a company which specialises in providing scientists with access to microgravity environments. The Company owns the commercial rights to intellectual property from the University of Glasgow to develop the Chemputer™, which intends to open up chemistry to a wide user-base via digitization. 

 

Prof Cronin said: "It's exciting to see digital chemistry being trialled in space for the first time.  Low and zero-gravity offer a range of new opportunities for performing chemical reactions which I believe will only be able to be performed routinely using a digital chemistry platform.

 

"The Company announced in January that during 2017 it anticipated early product releases of DigitalGlassware™, it's low-cost, easy to use chemical telemetry product designed to enable the routine digitization of chemistry in commercial and academic research laboratories.

 

"The experiment carried out today is part of previous research performed and part-funded by the University, with additional funding from the European Research Council and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. The research aims to digitize chemistry and make it possible for chemical compounds of all kinds to be printed on demand."

 

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Contacts:
Cronin Group Plc	www.croningroupplc.com
James Ede-Golightly, Chairman	T: 01481 701 564
WH Ireland Limited	www.whirelandplc.com
Mike Coe / Ed Allsopp	T: 0117 945 3470

 

 

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RNS Number : 0176X

Fitbug Holdings PLC

16 February 2017

 

 

 

Fitbug Holdings Plc / Epic: FITB.L / Index: AIM / Sector: Leisure

 

 

RNS REACH ANNOUNCEMENT:

 

16 February 2017

 

FITBUG HOLDINGS PLC ('FITBUG' OR 'THE COMPANY')

 

Non Regulatory – Results of Case Study

 

Fitbug Holdings Plc (AIM: FITB), the AIM quoted digital wellness provider for corporate organisations, would like to share some insights and findings from a recent case study, following a pilot wellness programme with MTR Crossrail. The pilot was rolled out in collaboration with Olympic gold medallist Sally Gunnell, OBE, (the partnership which was announced in December 2016) to a select group of about 100 MTR Crossrail employees over a period of three months.

Of the group participating, 60% were headquarters staff, 20% were train drivers and 20% were station staff. The rate of uptake and engagement was high, with 94% of the eligible employees joining the programme.

As with its typical service offering, Fitbug gathered aggregate data about employee progress and compiled after-action reports. The report for the MTR Crossrail programme revealed some interesting findings when it came to their employee wellness and engagement:

·      Over the course of the programme, participants walked 72% more than the average person in the UK

·      Activity levels gradually increased from week one to week four

·      Some individuals improved their step activity by 177% over the course of the programme

·      60% of employees who participated in the post-programme survey thought that the programme had a positive impact on office morale

MTR Crossrail has shown a real commitment to the wellbeing of its employees by setting some valuable benchmarks during this pilot wellness programme.

 

**ENDS**

 

For further information visit www.fitbugholdings.com 

 

Contact:

 

Anna Gudmundson / Donald Stewart	Fitbug Holdings Plc	020 7449 4949
Mark Brady / Neil Baldwin	SPARK Advisory Partners Limited (Nominated Advisor)	020 3368 3551
Claire Louise Noyce / William Lynne / Niall Pearson	Hybridan LLP, Broker	020 3764 2341
Stephanie Forrest	T/F/D, Public Relations	07917 695755

 

 

Notes

About Fitbug®

Fitbug provides digital wellness solutions that empower employers to create a positive culture of health within their organisation. By helping employees to embrace a healthier way of living, Fitbug can help maximise performance, reduce absenteeism, decrease the risk of chronic illness, and lower healthcare costs.

 

The Company's technological edge allows it to address holistic wellness by engaging both individuals and teams through intelligent, personalised interaction and gamification. The progress of individuals translates to actionable data, meaningful reporting and insights that allow the organisation to monitor the impact of the programme and to refine it in order to achieve success.

 

About RNS Reach announcements

RNS Reach is an investor communication service aimed at assisting listed and unlisted (including AIM quoted) companies to distribute media only / non-regulatory news releases such as marketing messages, corporate and product information into the public domain.   An RNS Regulatory announcement is required to be notified under the AIM Rules for Companies.

 

Fitbug's shares are admitted to trading on the London Stock Exchange AIM market under ticker FITB.

 

 

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Xeros Technology Group plc

14 February 2017

 

14 February 2017

 

Xeros Technology Group plc

 

Xeros Introduces Cleaning System for Firefighters' Personal Protective Equipment in USA

 

Xeros Technology Group plc (AIM: XSG, 'Xeros'), the developer and provider of patented polymer based systems with multiple commercial applications, has today launched a US-approved polymer cleaning solution for firefighters' personal protection equipment ('PPE'). 

 

The Xeros cleaning method is highly effective at removing harmful contaminants whilst also extending the life of expensive firefighting garments.

 

The Xeros system is fully compliant with the USA National Fire Protection Association 1851 standard for the cleaning of firefighter equipment. 

 

The PPE solution will be delivered as part of Xeros' existing Sbeadycare® service and is now available to the more than 58,000 fire stations in the USA. The system will also be used to clean high performance workwear and technical protective equipment in other markets including, amongst others, petroleum, mining, construction and military agencies.

 

Mark Nichols, Chief Executive of Xeros, said:

 

"Our ability to meet the highest performance requirements of firefighter PPE cleaning whilst simultaneously delivering significant operational benefits provides further evidence of good progress on our objective to become the de facto standard for cleaning high performance workwear.

 

"This market is a significant addition to that of our existing on-premise laundry business and another example of commercialising our intellectual property across multiple large scale global industries."

 

Enquiries:

 

Xeros Technology Group plc Mark Nichols, Chief Executive Officer	Tel: 0114 321 6328
Jefferies International Limited (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker) Simon Hardy / Harry Nicholas	Tel: 020 7029 8000
Berenberg (Joint Broker) Chris Bowman / Ben Wright / Amritha Murali	Tel: 020 3207 7800
Instinctif Partners Adrian Duffield / Helen Tarbet / James Gray	Tel: 020 7457 2020

 

Notes to Editors

Xeros Technology Group plc (LN: XSG) is a platform technology company that is reinventing water intensive industrial and commercial processes by reducing water and chemistry usage with its polymer technologies.  Its patented technologies have the capacity to provide material economic, operational and sustainability improvements that are unattainable with traditional processes.  The Group is currently exploiting its intellectual property in three areas: Cleaning Technologies, Tanning Technologies and Textile Technologies. Xeros has a number of agreements in place with such international organisations as Hilton and Wollsdorf Leder.

For more information, please visit – http://www.xeroscleaning.com/

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13 February 2017

Anglo African Agriculture plc

(???AAAP??? or the ???Company???)

AAAP wins significant supply contract for major South African food manufacturer

Anglo African Agriculture plc (LSE: AAAP), the London Main board listed food manufacturing and distribution company, is pleased to announce that its wholly owned spice manufacturing business, Dynamic Intertrade, has been awarded a significant contract to supply a custom blended spice product to a leading South African food manufacturer for the 2017 calendar year. The contract award calls for Dynamic Intertrade to supply up to 300 tonnes of specialty spices throughout the year. This order is subject to supply chain volumes from the purchaser.

David Lenigas, the Company???s Chairman, commented:

???This is a tremendous achievement for AAAP and a significant boost for the business as the Company moves in to the 2017 year. Our outstanding service over the past year to this particular blue chip customer, coupled with excellent quality controls and the fact that AAAP???s facilities are FSSC accredited cemented this achievement. This order now places the Company in a good position to exceed last financial year???s c.1,000 tonnes sold.???

For further information, please contact:

Anglo African Agriculture plc	+44 (0) 20 7440 0640
David Lenigas, Non-Executive Chairman Rob Scott, Non-Executive Director
VSA Capital Limited (Financial Adviser and Broker)	+44 (0) 20 3005 5000
Andrew Raca / James Asensio

About Dynamic Intertrade

Dynamic Intertrade is based in a modern 3,000 m?? FSSC compliant facility in Cape Town, South Africa and is involved in the importation, milling, blending and packaging of agricultural products that include herbs, spices, seasonings and confectionary for both the domestic and export markets. Dynamic???s commercial activities fall into two principal categories: milling and/or blending of herbs and spices and bulk trading of agricultural products.

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Neville Registrars is delighted to welcome Ve Interactive Limited as the newest addtion to its list of client companies.

Ve Interactive is a technology company whose platform helps businesses to acquire, engage and convert customers.

Formed in 2009, Ve has gone on to become National Champion representing the United Kingdom in the 2013/4 European Business Awards, Digital Champion in the Growing Business Awards 2014, Gold medal winner for Software Company of the Year in the Stevie International Business Awards 2013, winner of a Data Strategy Award 2014 and a European Business Award for Best Practice 2014.

Further information can be found on the Company's website: https://www.veinteractive.com/

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