Aquis Stock Exchange Weekly Highlights 19/04/24

One Health Group PLC announced that two of the largest NHS commissioners with which it works have renewed their contracts. It is expected that these new agreements will run for five years rather than twelve months, which has been the case previously, and will cover approximately 4,000 new patients and 2,000 surgical procedures per year. The two contracts are with the Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board (‘ICB’) and South Yorkshire ICB. Under these agreements, One Health states that it will continue to provide free care to NHS patients over a longer term. The coverage includes Doncaster, Barnsley, Rotherham, Sheffield, Wakefield, Kirklees, Leeds, Bradford, Calderdale, Derby and Derbyshire and most of Lincolnshire. Read more…

Capital for Colleagues Plc announced an investment update in respect of the quarter ended 29 February 2024.
Key Statistics for the quarter:
• Portfolio comprised of 15 unquoted EOBs at the end of the quarter (30 November 2023: 14).
• Net Asset Value (‘NAV’) of £16.2m (30 November 2023: £15.1m).
Key Developments in the quarter:
• The Company led a £1.5m investment round, contributing £0.5m, into a new investee company, Rapid Retail Limited (`Rapid Retail'), which designs, sells, refurbishes and rents portable shops, retail kiosks and retail merchandising units (RMUs).
• During the period, C4C also made follow on loans of £392,600 to five investee companies to support their working capital requirements.
As at 29 February 2024, the Company reported cash balances of £686,179 with no debt. Read more…

Cooks Coffee Company provided a trading update covering the Company's Esquires branded franchised coffee focused stores in the UK & Ireland for the financial year ended 31 March 2024.
Highlights
• Group store sales up 17.6% at £27.9m (2022: £23.8m).
• UK store sales up 21.1% at £18.1m, FY23: £15.2m and Ireland store sales up 11.3% at £9.6m (FY23: £8.6m).
• 77 Group sites in the UK and Ireland as 31 March 2024, up from 66 as at 1 April 2023.
• Strong pipeline of new stores with more than 10 outlets expected to open in Q2 2024.
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Black Sea Property Plc announced that it has, through two of its subsidiaries, signed license and management agreements with Nobu Hospitality LLC (‘Nobu’), to build two Nobu properties in Bulgaria. These will be Nobu's first properties in the Balkans. Nobu Sofia Hotel and Restaurant will be located within the Company's ‘Uni-Credit building’, a renowned historic landmark in the centre of Sofia, also known as the ‘Bankers Building’. The second site, located on the Black Sea coast at the Grand Hotel Varna acquired by the Company in 2023, will be transformed into the Nobu Varna Hotel and Restaurant. Read more…

Incanthera plc announced that it has received further warrant exercise notices over 5,166,667 new ordinary shares in the Company, at an exercise price of 10 pence per share, providing the Company with gross proceeds of £516,666.70. Following the completion of these warrant exercises and, in conjunction with the warrant exercise announced earlier in April 2024, the Company has received a total of warrant exercise notices for 7,166,667 new ordinary shares in the Company providing it with gross proceeds of £716,667. Read more…