Karelian Diamond Resources (“Karelian”) is a diamond exploration company focussed on Finland. Karelian has demonstrated that at 6.9 hectares it’s Seitaperä target is the largest known diamondiferous kimberlite discovered to date in Finland. The Company’s objective is to discover in Finland a world class diamond deposit comparable to those which have been found in similar geology in Russia.
Regency Mines Plc
Regency Mines Plc is a mining exploration and mineral investment company with agromineral interests in Sudan, nickel interests in Papua New Guinea and nickel and other mineral interests in Australia. Regency’s predominant Australian interests are in the Fraser Range, adjacent to Sirius’ Nova Deposit. The Company is also an investor in the DNi process – a revolutionary lateritic nickel treatment technology. This is a forward-thinking Company which looks for projects globally which have the possibility for large-scale discoveries, and ultimately, significant gains to investors.
InterQuest
InterQuest has been trading since 2001, growing during this time to an AIM listed, £115 million Turnover Company.
InterQuest is a specialist recruitment Group, comprising a number of independent businesses that operate either in a single market sector, such as Financial Markets, Retail or Not for Profit, or within a clearly defined area of technology. Our sector and technology aligned businesses are augmented by others which provide services such as recruitment outsourcing and executive search spanning each of our niche focus areas.
Saxo Capital Markets
Saxo Capital Markets is a wholly owned subsidiary of Saxo Bank and enables private investors and institutional clients to trade FX, CFDs, ETFs, Stocks, Futures and Options via its multi-award winning online trading platforms. With clients worldwide, Saxo Bank is recognised for excellence in service and technology and prides itself on safeguarding client information. The group’s technology and liquidity is award-winning, and a large number of banks, brokers, asset and money managers choose to use Saxo Bank for its white label products.
Peterhouse Corporate Finance
Peterhouse Corporate Finance is a corporate advisory and fundraising group which provides a range of services to small and medium sized companies, including corporate finance advice, fundraising (IPO, pre-IPO, secondary, private equity, debt), corporate broking, mergers and acquisitions, takeovers and reverse mergers. The group is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, a member of the London Stock Exchange, a nominated broker on AIM and also a Corporate Adviser member of ISDX.
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Northern Shields Resources
Northern Shield Resources Inc. is a Canadian-based mineral exploration company with a focus on platinum exploration in under-explored regions of Canada. The company trades on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol “NRN” and on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under “N9S” providing investors with exposure to these high value, high demand commodities. Northern Shield is led by an experienced and dedicated management team whose combined experience of geology, corporate law, mining engineering, junior resource markets and the mining industry as a whole is causing much excitement across the sector.
Cello Group
Cello Group is an insight and strategic marketing group, which operates in more than 70 countries. With professional hubs in the UK and USA, the group creates value for shareholders through its international pharmaceutical advisory business which advises blue chip clients globally as well its marketing business which delivers a world class service. Cello is embarking on an exciting growth phase at present as the social media consulting and research arm continues to grow with a new office in New York and another due to open in Hong Kong later this year.
Strategic Minerals plc
Strategic Minerals plc is a UK registered resources company focused on development and supply of magnetite to the world’s industrial markets. Quoted on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM capture2market, the Company is currently developing a portfolio of production ready magnetite stockpiles that generate significant early revenues, as well as a number of significant upside iron ore exploration projects that the Company will typically progress to a JORC status. The first of the Company’s stockpile projects is the Cobre stockpile in New Mexico, USA. The Company likewise holds multiple exciting exploration tenements across Australia, with its most advanced exploration project being the Iron Glen project in Queensland.
Ethical Forestry Limited
Ethical Forestry is a UK company specialising in timber investments for private and corporate investors. The firm’s plantations are run on a ‘for profit’ basis, focused on healthy returns for investors whilst offering a high level of investor security. For this purpose, Ethical Forestry Own all of its plantations outright, have onsite management teams caring for them on a daily basis, supply individual GPS (global positioning system) reference points for each planted tree and process all timber through their bespoke timber mills. This attention to detail makes Ethical Forestry unique within the market place as it manages the whole process for investors, from seed to selling the valuable timber.
Tangent Communications plc
Tangent was founded in 2005 when Tangent Communications Ltd acquired Documedia plc and the whole group was relisted on the AiM market of the LSE as Tangent Communications plc. Tangent has two complementary businesses, in online retail of customised products and in website design and marketing. Last November’s £10m acquisition of Goodprint has significantly scaled up the group’s retail operation, adding to the range of personalised products on sale and expanding market reach across Europe. The burgeoning consumer demand for cost effective customisation of “own” brand products from business cards through t-shirts, and Instagram prints provides a healthy backdrop for the group to build its market share. Tangent is growing, it is profitable, cash generative and has a strong management team.
Small Cap Club
The Small Cap Club provides regular networking events for key participants, leaders and advisors of quoted small capcompanies in the UK. Regular meetings are organised where members can meet to network in a relaxed and informal environment with guest speakers. Membership is via application or invitation. Members are invited to nominate suitable candidates for membership.
Liquid Investments
Liquid Investments provides global financial solutions allowing institutional and private investors to accumulate wealth by utilising precisely applied Modern Portfolio Theory, and implementing a strategy of diversification to safe, secure alternative assets in emerging markets. The company specialises in ethically grown commodities, providing investors with significant returns based on farmland values, as well as an annual income from the production and sale of multi-use commodity based products.
Dividend Income Investor.com
Dividend Income Investor is a unique share valuation service that helps investors buy and sell dividend paying stocks at the right time while collecting an increasing income. Its algorithms ascertain when dividend paying companies have become historically undervalued and overvalued which, in turn, help would-be investors make more informed investment decisions. With this in mind, the Dividend Income Investor system is a powerful tool for investors which has the potential to take most of the “hard work” out of managing an investment portfolio.
PKF Malta
PKF Malta is a fast growing, progressive firm that will meet the technical standards that your organisation expects. As a member of PKF International, providing services to a list of prestigious clients, we enjoy an excellent reputation which stems from our dedication, professionalism and enthusiasm to serve our clients. Our credentials are well valued by Government the commercial sector in general.
Webis Holdings Plc (AIM:WEB)
Webis Holdings plc is an AIM listed company specialising in global gaming. The company owns two complementary licenced entities with operation centres in California and Kentucky: WatchandWager, a totalisator betting website and portal which provides easy access to a large number of global racetrack betting pools, including the United States, Hong Kong and France, and; Cal Expo, a Sacramento based harness racetrack that races twice-weekly from October through to May.
Premier African Minerals Limited
Premier African Minerals Limited is a multi-commodity exploration and development company focussed in Southern and West Africa. The company has a diverse portfolio of multi-commodity projects which includes tungsten, phosphate, REE, gold, lithium, tantalum, uranium and clays, in Zimbabwe and Togo, at various stages of development. Premier plans to utilise the strengths of its proven Board and management team, which is highly experienced in developing resource projects in Africa, to fulfil its strategy of developing and targeting projects which offer near term value uplift either through production, exploration, strategic alliances or commercial opportunities.
Manx Financial Group (AIM: MFX)
Manx Financial Group PLC offers retail and commercial banking services, payment solutions, wealth management, general insurance and life insurance, through its wholly owned subsidiaries Conister Bank Limited, Conister Card Services Limited, and Edgewater Associates Limited.
ECR Minerals Plc
ECR is a mineral exploration and development company with, among other interests, the right to earn a 50% interest in the Itogon gold project in the Philippines. ECR also has a 100% interest in the SLM gold project in La Rioja Province, Argentina. In addition, ECR is reviewing potential new investments on a highly selective basis, with a concentration on precious, base and strategic metals projects.
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Condor Gold PLC (LSE: CON)
Condor Gold in a UK based AIM listed company. It has 2.4M oz gold at 3.8g/t at its La India Project in Nicaragua which includes 1.1M oz in the Indicated category and 1.2M in the Inferred category. Condor completed a PEA in March 2013 and is due to produce a PFS in the coming weeks. The PFS will focus on a base case open pit using 840,000 oz gold at 3.1g/t in the indicated category in La India open pit, aimed at circa 80,000 oz gold production p.a. There will be two PEAs. One PEA will show the upside of adding two feeder pits with production increasing to circa 100,000 oz gold pa and the second PEA will show the upside of adding underground production with total production guidance of 130,000 oz gold pa.
Leyshon Resources
Leyshon Resources has been fully engaged in China since 2003 and has its main operating office located in Beijing. Leyshon, along with its partner PetroChina, is one of a small number of companies exploring and looking to develop unconventional gas production on the Eastern Flank of the Ordos Basin in China. The group is currently focusing on the 2013 programme for the Zijinshan Gas Project, with plans to drill and test six wells and capture 300 kilometres of seismic data with the aim of delineating resources by the end of the year.
BRR Media
BRR Media is a leading digital communications platform. We deliver cutting edge online communication tools for companies wishing to engage their stakeholders through the use of live and pre-recorded video and audio webcasting.
Kryso Resources plc
Kryso Resources plc is an AIM-listed mineral exploration and development company focused on projects in Tajikistan. Kryso owns 100% of the 5Moz Au (JORC) Pakrut Gold Project. Construction has now commenced following the securing of a US$93.5m project finance facility by Kryso.
Fundsmith LLP
Fundsmith is a fund management company established in 2010 by Terry Smith. The business is 100% owned and controlled by its partners, who have worked closely together over many years, and is headquartered in London with an office in Connecticut, USA. The investment process of the Fundsmith Equity Fund will be the only equity fund strategy that we employ and the Fundsmith Equity Fund is the main vehicle for Terry’s own investments.
Conroy Gold and Natural Resources plc
Conroy Gold and Natural Resources (“Conroy”) is an Irish based resource company exploring and developing gold and other projects in Ireland. Conroy has under licence the entire thirty mile gold trend which it has discovered in the Longford-Down Massif in Ireland. Conroy has discovered a series of gold targets along the trend and is working towards developing a gold mine on 20 per cent of one of these targets – Clontibret in Co. Monaghan, where positive technical and financial scoping studies have been completed by independent consultants – Tetra Tech.
AltEnergis
AltEnergis is a London-based technology company focusing on the development of novel renewable energy technologies that have a significant sales potential in markets with a serious unmet need. The firm’s vision is to develop early-stage research in order to bring many new Cleantech technologies to the forefront of the market, thus bridging the gap between innovation and commercial success. AltEnergis currently has 5 technologies under various stages of development that will be commercialised over the next 12-36 months.
They include:
- Wind turbine gearbox condition monitoring device – this could significantly impact the reliability and efficiency of the wind power sector – both onshore and offshore.
- Bioethanol enhancement technologies – we have two separate technologies which both offer significant improvements in production yield.
- Piezoelectric device- an interesting technology creating electricity at no cost from stress, strain and vibrations, with our design offering 100% more power than similar devices.
- Turbo-discharging – an innovative approach based on the traditionally researched turbo-charger, offering improvements in both power and efficiency in Internal Combustion Engines.
GenSignia Inc
GenSignia, Inc. was founded in 2011, based on leading academic research, to develop new molecular diagnostic techniques for the earlier detection of cancers. A privately-held company, its discoveries show that it is possible to detect signatures of cancer in blood through the identification of tiny nucleic acid fragments called miRNAS. Based on promising data, the company intends to build strong clinical test platform that will enable earlier diagnosis, and therefore improve survivability, of the most prevalent, lethal cancers, such as lung cancer.
Headquartered in San Diego, California, Trovagene is developing its patented technology for the detection of transrenal DNA and RNA, short nucleic acid fragments, originating from normal and diseased cell death that cross the kidney barrier and can be detected in urine. Trovagene has a strong patent position as it relates to transrenal molecular testing and has U.S. and European patent applications and issued patents that cover testing for HPV and other infectious diseases, cancer, transplantation, prenatal and genetic testing.
Optiva Securities
Optiva Securities (“Optiva”) is a growing and dynamic corporate advisory and private client stockbroking business, which can provide access to capital for companies that can demonstrate the potential to make substantial capital gains for investors.
We can also offer to certain private clients for whom it is suitable; In-House Placings, where Optiva Securities acts as corporate broker to the company as well as providing a conduit to External Placings. Optiva also offer private clients’ investments into AIM and Fully Listed companies via their ISAs, SIPPs and when available through EIS schemes.
KILLIK & Co
Killik & Co is a financial services firm with a stock broking heritage which offers financial and securities advice and execution, as well as investment management across the whole market. We are an independently owned business and are not tied to any particular product providers. We can therefore consider the widest range of investment options for our clients’ needs.
As a leading wealth management provider, we believe in providing comprehensive and independent financial planning services. Our private wealth management planners are holistic in their approach and cover all aspects of your financial matters from pensions and annuities to inheritance tax planning and trusts to ensure that you have the correct financial architecture in place to meet your wealth management planning objectives.
The Killik & Co partnership was founded in 1989 and operates from nine branch offices in, and around, Greater London and one international branch in Dubai. We currently look after approximately £3.3 billion on behalf of over 25,000 private clients.
Nyota Minerals Limited
Nyota Minerals is an Africa focussed mineral exploration and development company committed to creating a lasting positive legacy in the communities in which it operates. Its current focus is on unlocking the mineral potential of Ethiopia for shareholders through the development of Tulu Kapi, its flagship gold project. The company recently announced a maiden JORC-compliant Probable Ore Reserve for Tulu Kapi of 16.9 Mt grading 1.82g/t for 986, 000 ounces of contained gold. A Definitive Feasibility Study for Tulu Kapi confirms a technically feasible and economic project with average annual gold production of 105,000 steady state from an open pit. Nyoto is also evaluating multiple targets around Tulu Kapi, as well as additional regional prospects in its Northern Blocks exploration, which it believes have the potential to become future standalone projects.
Vatukoula Gold Mines
The Vatukoula Gold Mine is located in the northern part of Fiji’s main island, approximately ten kilometres inland. The mine is situated at the base of the hills that make up the Tavua volcanic crater. A producing gold mine which currently has 4.2 million ounces of Mineral Resources and 700,00 ounces of Mineral Reserves.
The mine is currently both an open pit and underground operation, however in the medium term it will become predominantly an underground mine.
Vatukoula Gold Mine Plc is a UK public company with its headquarters in London, while operations take place in Fiji. The company currently employs approximately 1,400 staff and is listed on the AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange trading under the symbol ‘VGM’.
Kefi Minerals
KEFI Minerals (KEFI) is an AIM-quoted exploration company focused on creation of shareholder value through the discovery and development of world-class gold and copper deposits within the Arabian Shield in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The Company owns 40%, and serves as operator, of the Gold and Minerals Joint Venture with a leading Saudi construction and investment group, ARTAR. Following its listing in late 2006, KEFI Minerals quickly expanded its exploration portfolio and currently holds 4 Exploration Licences and has lodged 19 Licence applications in Saudi Arabia.
West African Minerals Corp
West African Minerals Corporation (WAFM) is an AIM-listed iron ore mining and exploration group with one of the largest land positions in Cameroon considered prospective for high-tonnage, hematite-rich direct shipping ore (DSO). Through its wholly-owned subsidiary CMC SA, WAFM owns 100% interest in six exploration permits spanning the coastal vicinity of the deep water port of Kribi, to the southeast adjacent to such advanced projects as Mbalam.
A large-scale exploration programme is currently underway to outline the near-term potential of WAFM’s coastal permits towards production in relatively short time and at low cost, in addition to establishing large volume resources close to the proposed south Cameroon rail corridor. The regional prospectivity of southern Cameroon as the next major iron ore frontier is exemplified by increasing exploration activity and investment by global majors and diversified mining companies.
Sirius Minerals
Sirius Minerals is an AIM listed potash development. The group is primarily focused on the development of the largest and highest-grade Polyhalite deposit in the United Kingdom – the York Potash Project – and is committed to developing a portfolio of projects by continuing to review opportunities around the globe.
Polo Resources
Polo Resources is a globally focused natural resources and mine development investment company. Current investments include Ninimi Holdings, which currently has a resource of 784,000 ounces of gold at the Komahun Gold project in Sierra Leone, with a Preliminary Economic Assessment expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2013. Elsewhere, Signet Petroleum is an independent oil exploration company focused on acquiring and developing high impact exploration assets in Africa. Four highly prospective assets have already been acquired, in Benin, Burundi, Namibia and Tanzania, and the company is actively pursuing additional assets in other African countries. In addition, Polo has investments in GCM Resources, which is developing the Phulbari Coal Project in Bangladesh and is currently awaiting approval from the Government of Bangladesh; and in Ironstone Resources, a private Canadian company which owns the Clear HillsIron Ore/Vanadium Project in Alberta, Canada.
The Polo management team has an excellent track record of value creation and frequent delivery of special dividends to shareholders. At the time of writing the shares trade at a 35% discount to net assets of 36.2p per share as at the end of December 2012.
Union MedTech
Union MedTech is focused on acquisitions in the medical technology sector, excluding pharmaceuticals. Its goal is to find medical devices, diagnostics and other healthcare products and services that, although capable of generating substantial profits, need assistance to bring them to market or expand their markets internationally. The company works with inventors and small companies that have created high value technologies which have the power to transform lives, yet have struggled to achieve international market penetration due to lack of capital, expertise or resources.
Fastnet Oil & Gas plc
Fastnet Oil & Gas plc is an AIM quoted oil and gas exploration company focused on identifying early stage exploration and appraisal opportunities in Offshore Africa and Ireland. Fastnet’s aim is to assemble a portfolio of high impact conventional oil and gas assets in areas that have been underexplored by industry majors. The Company has a highly experienced management team with a proven track record of generating significant shareholder value in the oil and gas industry.
Toro Gold
Toro Gold is a private gold exploration and development company focused on the Birimian and Archean geological terrains of Africa. The company is seeking to establish a multi-million ounce portfolio of gold projects across multiple jurisdictions to offer investors exposure both to proven and emerging gold provinces while providing technical and political risk diversification. Toro currently operates eight early to mid stage exploration projects across five countries.
London’s Air Ambulance
London’s Air Ambulance is the Charity that delivers an advanced trauma team to critically injured people in London. The service provides pre-hospital medical care at the scene of the incident and serves the 10 million people who live, work and commute within the M25.
Based at the Royal London Hospital and founded in 1989, the service is unique in that it operates 24/7, with the helicopter running in daylight hours and rapid response cars taking over at night.
The Team, which at all times includes a Senior Trauma Doctor and a specially trained Paramedic, perform advanced medical interventions, normally only found in the Hospital Emergency Department, in time critical, life threatening situations. Missions commonly involve serious road traffic collisions, falls from height, industrial accidents, assaults and injuries on the rail network.
London’s Air Ambulance has an international reputation for clinical excellence and delivers pioneering procedures which have been adopted across the world.
Trovagene
Trovagene is a diagnostics company with headquarters in San Diego, California. It holds intellectual property around the discovery that cell-free DNA, RNA and other types of nucleic acids pass through the kidney into the urine. These “Transrenal Nucleic Acids” can be diagnostic of diseases such as cancer and infection. Through this revolutionary technology, Trovagene is setting out to change the way medicine is practiced, through simple, non-invasive sampling and analysis of these nucleic acids. This can ultimately lead to earlier detection, more effective treatment monitoring, and better management of serious illnesses.
Summit (Oxford) Limited
Summit Corporation is a UK company focused on the discovery and development of novel drug candidates to treat areas of high unmet medical needs. Its first area of focus is Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), a fatal genetic muscle wasting disease for which there is currently no cure. DMD has an incidence of 1 in 3,500 and the patient population in the developed world is estimated to be 50,000. Summit’s programme is a potential disease-modifying approach that is expected to treat all DMD patients, regardless of the genetic fault causing their disease. Its second area of focus is Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), a potentially fatal illness that is a major healthcare issue in hospitals and long-term care homes, and increasingly in the wider community. It is estimated that there are currently 900,000 cases across Europe and North America per annum. The rise means CDI has a high economic burden with the annual cost of care in Europe and North America estimated to be in excess of $7 billion.
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Amara Mining
Amara Mining is an AIM and TSX listed miner, focussed on West Africa, which has ambitions to become a mid-tier producer in the next few years. The Kalsaka mine in Burkina Faso is currently producing over 50,000 ounces of gold per annum, with this expected to be extended later this year by material being trucked from the nearby Sega deposit. Elsewhere, a feasibility study for the potentially company making Baomahun project in Sierra Leone is on track for the first half of 2013. In Cote d’Ivoire, a resource update for the Yaoure project is targeted for the first quarter of 2013, with a significant increase on the existing resource of 249,000 ounces expected.
EMED Mining
EMED Mining is a minerals development company, currently focussed on bringing the Rio Tinto copper mine in Spain back into production. Rio Tinto’s initial base case production rate is 37,000 tonnes per annum by the end of 2015, with production expected to commence in 2014 and plant construction expected this year. Significant expansion plans are also being made, focused on re-establishing Rio Tinto as a mining field with several mines operating around a central processing plant. With the company’s target case net present value for Rio Tinto being up to $1.3 billion (£820 million) there looks to be significant upside to the current market cap of £123 million.
Ariana Resources PLC
London-listed Ariana Resources (AIM: AAU) is a gold and silver mining development company with near-term production potential in Western Turkey. The Global JORC resource stands at 1,540,000 oz Au. Ongoing exploration is fulfilled through our own work in western Turkey, via joint venture (Eldorado Gold) and strategic investment (Tigris Resources). Ariana is spearheaded by an experienced management team, which aims to discover and develop new gold mines.
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e-Therapeutics
Based in Oxford and Newcastle, e-Therapeutics is a drug discovery company, with a pipeline of two drug candidates. ETS2101 is currently in Phase I trials for the treatment of primary and secondary brain cancer in the UK and US, the results of which are expected in the fourth quarter of 2013 and first quarter of 2014. Aside from its primary market, there have been signs that this drug may prove effective against other forms of cancer. The company’s second drug candidate, ETS6103, is used to treat depression and is scheduled to being Phase IIb trials in the second quarter of 2013, having shown encouraging results in a Phase IIa study when it was compared with the approved anti-depressant amitriptyline. The results of the next round of trials is due in the second quarter of 2014.
Anglesey Mining
Anglesey Mining is a base metal exploration company which owns the Parys Mountain deposit in North Wales, which has a historical resource of 7.76 million tonnes, containing an estimated 2% Copper, 2.9% Lead and 4.9% Zinc. The group has planning permission to develop the site and believes it will be capable of reaching production two years after it secures sufficient financing. Anglesey first began exploration in the region in 1988 but ceased exploration in 1991 due to poor adverse economic conditions, recommencing operations in June 2005. The group also noted that the mine contains gold mineralisation, estimating that 75 kilograms could be extracted from the processing of 350,000 tonnes of ore per year. Anglesey also holds a 26% interest in Canadian firm Labrador Iron Mines Holdings, which began production at its Schefferville Project in 2011, with its first iron shipment sent to China in October 2011. The site as an estimated mine life of over 20 years, with a JORC complaint resource of 37 million tones and an additional estimated historical resource of 125 million tones, and is located next to good quality transportation and power facilities.
Plastics Capital Plc
Plastics Capital is a specialist plastics products manufacturer focused on proprietary products for niche markets. The Group has five factories in the UK, two in China, one in Thailand and sales offices in the USA, Japan, India and China. Plastics Capital was incorporated in December 2002 and was listed on the AIM market in December 2007.
Currently approximately 40 per cent of sales are exported to over 80 countries worldwide and production is concentrated in the UK where significant engineering know-how and automation underpins the Group’s competitiveness.
The Group’s corporate strategy is to build shareholder value by continuing to grow its key businesses organically and through value enhancing acquisitions
Alliance Pharma
Founded in 1998, Alliance Pharma is a medical science company, whose principal activity is the acquisition, licensing and marketing of mature pharmaceutical products. The company has purchased the rights to over 50 established products across a wide range of therapy sectors, including Dermatology, Oncology and Nutrition. The group primarily targets the prescription market and its products are supplied directly to hospitals as well as pharmaceutical wholesalers. Its key treatments include Deltacortril, acquired from Pfizer in 2006, which is used against inflammatory and allergic disorders and anti-clotting agent Nu-Seals, purchased from Lilly in 2002.
Equatorial Palm Oil
Equatorial Palm Oil produces crude palm oil, which is used in foods and creating biodiesel fuel. The group was founded in 2005 and has amassed a land bank covering some 169,000 hectares across three locations in Liberia, West Africa. It plans to develop 50,000 hectares for production over the next 10 years and increase this to 100,000 hectares in the following 10 years. The firm also has the only commercial palm oil mill in the whole of Liberia, commissioned in May 2011, and is capable of processing 5 tonnes of oil palm fruit per hour. There is strong demand for palm oil in West Africa, with nearly 1 million tonnes imported every year. Equatorial Palm Oil’s local presence gives it an important advantage over its competitors, eliminating import costs and encouraging consumer loyalty through its provision of local employment and services.