List of Alternative Investment Market companies
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The following is an alphabetically ordered list of current, former and future Members of the Alternative Investment Market, the London Stock Exchange
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London Stock Exchange
The London Stock Exchange is a stock exchange located in the City of London within the United Kingdom. , the Exchange had a market capitalisation of US$3.7495 trillion, making it the fourth-largest stock exchange in the world by this measurement...
's incubator market for small- and mid-cap firms.
Current Constituents of the AIM UK 50 index
As at: 23 April 2010- ASOS.comASOS.comASOS.com is the UK's largest online-only fashion and beauty store. Primarily aimed at 16-34 year old men and women, it offers over 35,000 own-label and branded fashion goods. Sales for the financial year ending 31 March 2011 were £339.7 million....
- Abcam
- Albemarle & Bond
- Amerisur Resources
- Archipelago Resources
- Aurelian Oil & Gas
- Avanti Communications Group
- Avocet Mining
- Borders & Southern Petroleum
- BowLeven
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- Caretech Holdings
- Ceres Power Holdings
- Conygar Investment Company
- Daisy Group
- Datacash Group
- Desire PetroleumDesire PetroleumDesire Petroleum plc is an oil and gas exploration company headquartered in Malvern, United Kingdom. It owns offshore exploration and production licences in the North Falkland Basin in the waters north of the Falkland Islands...
- Faroe Petroleum
- GW Pharmaceuticals
- Gulfsands Petroleum
- H&T Group
- HamworthyHamworthyHamworthy is a parish and inner suburb of Poole in Dorset, England. Hamworthy lies on a peninsula of approximately and is bounded by Upton to the north, Poole Harbour to the west and Holes Bay to the east. Poole Bridge, the southern terminus of the A350 road, connects the suburb with the town centre...
- Hargreaves Services
- Healthcare Locums
- Immunodiagnostic Systems Hldgs
- Invista Real Estate
- James Halstead
- Kalahari Minerals
- London Mining
- Lonrho
- M.P. Evans Group
- MAy Gurney Integrated Services
- Majestic WineMajestic WineMajestic Wine plc is the United Kingdom's largest retailer of wine by the mixed case. -History:Majestic Vintners was founded by Sheldon Graner in 1980...
- Nanoco Group
- Nichols plcNichols plcNichols plc, based in Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, England, is a company well known for its lead brand Vimto, a fruit flavoured cordial. The company can trace its roots back to the invention of Vimto, by John Noel Nichols in 1908...
- Northern Petroleum
- Numis Corporation
- Plant Health Care
- Pursuit Dynamics
- RAB Capital
- RSM Tenon Group
- RWS Holdings
- Regal PetroleumRegal PetroleumRegal Petroleum plc is a petroleum company based in London with assets in Romania, Ukraine, Greece, and Egypt. It was founded by Frank Timiş in November 1996, and is listed on the London Alternative Investment Market.-External links:*...
- Serica Energy
- Songbird Estates
- SportingbetSportingbetSportingbet plc is a British e-gaming operator. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE SmallCap Index.-History:The Company was founded by Mark Blandford in 1997. Sportingbet acquired Paradise Poker in October 2004...
- Sterling Energy
- Valiant Petroleum
- Volga Gas
- Young & Cos Brewery A
Current Constituents of the AIM 100 index
This section of the list excludes the 50 firms listed above.- FyffesFyffes-History:In the 1870s Thomas Fyffe, a London food wholesaler, went into partnership with a fruit dealer named Hudson who had connections in the Canary Islands. In 1878 they shipped their first cargo of bananas to England. Within five years the business had become so successful that they purchased...
- PhormPhormPhorm, formerly known as 121Media, is a Delaware, United States-based digital technology company known for its advertising software. Founded in 2002, the company originally distributed programs that were considered spyware, from which they made millions of dollars in revenue...
- RenesolaReneSolaReneSola Ltd. is a Jiashan-headquartered manufacturer of solar wafers, which are thin sheets of crystalline silicon material primarily used in the production of solar cells....
Current Members of the Alternative Investment Market
- 1PM
- 1st Dental Laboratories
- 2 Ergo Group
- 21st Century Technology
- @UK@UK plc@UK plc is an e-procurement company specialising in spend analysis and company formation, headquartered in Aldermaston, England. It provides integration, purchase-to-pay and spend analysis to a number of British public sector organisations...
- ACM Shipping Group
- ACP Capital
- ADVFNADVFNADVFN is a financial market website. It provides online data and services to private investors such as stock quotes, charts, news, FOREX, Futures & Options and stock screeners. The site currently covers in excess of 70 stock exchanges from across the globe...
- AFC Energy
- API Group
- ASOSASOS.comASOS.com is the UK's largest online-only fashion and beauty store. Primarily aimed at 16-34 year old men and women, it offers over 35,000 own-label and branded fashion goods. Sales for the financial year ending 31 March 2011 were £339.7 million....
- ATH Resources
- Ablon Group
- Access Intelligence
- Accsys Technologies
- Acta S.p.A
- ZytronicZytronicZytronic is a British developer and manufacturer of touch technology products based in Blaydon upon Tyne, United Kingdom.Zytronic designs composite component technologies that optimise the performance of electronic display applications and manufacture projected capacitive technology based touch...
- cScape Group
- eServGlobalEServGlobaleServGlobal ) specializes in Mobile Money solutions and Value-Added Services , to help Telco Service Providers increase their revenue and gain and maintain customer ownership...
- eXpansys
- i-design Group
- Abcam plcAbcam plcAbcam plc is a UK biotech company based in the Cambridge Science Park in Cambridge, England, with offices in Boston MA, San Francisco, Hong Kong and Tokyo.The premise of the company was incubated from a laboratory in the University of Cambridge, UK in 1998...
- Arbuthnot Latham & CoArbuthnot Latham & CoArbuthnot Latham & Co is a small private bank based in Moorgate in the City of London in the UK. It has the status of one of the twelve accepting houses....
- Baltimore TechnologiesBaltimore TechnologiesBaltimore Technologies was a leading Irish internet security firm, with its headquarters in Dublin Ireland. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was briefly part of the FTSE 100 Index during 2000.-History:...
- Cape Lambert Iron Ore Ltd.
- CVS Group
- EndaceEndaceEndace Ltd is a New Zealand-headquartered company specializing in high performance network monitoring and analysis. Started in 2001, in 2005, they became the first company in New Zealand listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange...
- Falkland Islands HoldingsFalkland Islands HoldingsFalkland Islands Holdings plc or FIH is a British conglomerate which plays a key role in the economy of the Falkland Islands through the Falklands Islands Company...
- First Quantum MineralsFirst Quantum MineralsFirst Quantum Minerals Ltd. is a Vancouver, British Columbia based mining and metals company whose principal activities include mineral exploration, development and mining....
- Impellam GroupImpellam GroupImpellam Group plc was formed in May 2008 through the merger of The Corporate Services Group plc and Carlisle Group Limited.Impellam operates globally, with more than 20 specialist brands across a broad range of staffing sectors, which are complemented by businesses in the outsourced support...
- KedcoKedcoKedco plc is a bioscience energy company operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland which was established in 2005. -Stock market listing:Kedco floated on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange on Monday October 20, 2008. Kedco was admitted to the AIM at 17.5c per share...
- M&C SaatchiM&C SaatchiM&C Saatchi is an international advertising agency network formed in January 1995 by the brothers Maurice Saatchi and Charles Saatchi after they were ousted from the advertising agency group Saatchi & Saatchi which they had founded in 1970...
- Mecom GroupMecom GroupMecom Group plc is a newspaper publishing company headquartered in London, United Kingdom.It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index until 22 December 2008, when it became one of three media companies to fall out of the index.-History:The company was...
- Nighthawk energy
- OptareOptareOptare plc is a bus manufacturer and importer based in Leeds and Blackburn, UK. The company operates from three main business units, Bus Manufacturing, Coach Sales and Unitec....
- RDF MediaRDF MediaZodiak Media is a Anglo-American television production company. It was formed in 2010 when RDF Media Group was acquired by, and merged with Zodiak Entertainment...
- ReNeuronReNeuronReNeuron is a UK-based stem cell research company, whose shares are listed on the Alternative Investment Market. Its focus is on the development of stem cell therapies targeting areas of poorly met medical need, including peripheral arterial disease, stroke, and retinal diseases.ReNeuron is...
- RotalaRotalaRotala is an Alternative Investment Market listed company, which owns a variety of UK transport operators.Rotala was set up in 2005, with the main intention of acquiring or gaining majority interest in businesses within a number of areas.-Surrey Connect:...
- Rubicon SoftwareRubicon SoftwareRubicon Software is a British software company founded in 1989 and floated on the Alternative Investment Market on the London Stock Exchange in September 2006...
- SandvineSandvineSandvine Incorporated , in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.Sandvine network policy control products are designed to implement broad network policies, ranging from service creation, billing, congestion management, and security...
- Smart TelecomSmart TelecomSmart Telecom is an Irish telecom operator that started as a phone card seller. It is also the third largest provider of cost-sensitive telecom services sector in Ireland, behind the incumbent operator Eircom and BT Ireland. It currently has an estimated 50,000 land-line customers and 18,000...
- Solid State PLC
- Stanley Gibbons
- SynchronicaSynchronicaSynchronica plc is a public listed software vendor that develops and markets mobile push email and synchronization solutions, as well as mobile messaging solutions targeted at mobile network operators and device manufacturers....
- Titanium Resources Group
- Vitesse Media
- ZamanoZamanoZamano is a publicly listed internet and mobile technology company based in Dublin. Established in 2000, Zamano concentrates on mobile commerce, marketing and customer relationship management.- Business structure :...
Former Members of the Alternative Investment Market
- Arsenal F.C.Arsenal F.C.Arsenal Football Club is a professional English Premier League football club based in North London. One of the most successful clubs in English football, it has won 13 First Division and Premier League titles and 10 FA Cups...
- Cains BreweryCains BreweryCains is a brewery in Liverpool, England, founded in 1858 by Robert Cain. The company, with its 200 pub estate, merged with Peter Walker & Son in 1921, with the brewery operation being taken over by Higsons in 1923. Boddingtons of Manchester took over in 1985, and shut it down in 1990...
- CODA plcCoda (company)CODA plc is a mid-sized international financial software company based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1979, it was purchased in 2008 by Unit4, a supplier of Enterprise Software, based in the Netherlands. CODA creates, markets and implements a range of business software systems designed...
- MAXjet AirwaysMAXjet AirwaysMAXjet Airways was an American, transatlantic, all-business class airline that operated between 2003 and 2007. Its headquarters were located on the grounds of Washington-Dulles International Airport, and in the Dulles area of Loudoun County, Virginia, United States.MAXjet operated services to...
- SuperdrugSuperdrugSuperdrug Stores PLC is Britain's second-largest beauty and health retailer behind Boots. Superdrug - part of the AS Watson Group which in turn is part of the Hong Kong conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa - is a UK based company with over 890 stores, which since 2006, includes the Republic of Ireland...
- Winchester FilmsWinchester FilmsWinchester Films was a British production company. It was started in March 1993 and was listed on the Alternative Investment Market to raise the capital needed to build an effective portfolio of films and TV programmes...
Scheduled Initial Public Offerings
This section of the list comprises companies due to be listed shortly on the exchangeStock exchange
A stock exchange is an entity that provides services for stock brokers and traders to trade stocks, bonds, and other securities. Stock exchanges also provide facilities for issue and redemption of securities and other financial instruments, and capital events including the payment of income and...
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See also
- Alternative Investment MarketAlternative Investment MarketAIM is a sub-market of the London Stock Exchange, allowing smaller companies to float shares with a more flexible regulatory system than is applicable to the main market....