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Dominion Energy +275%
Datum International +252%
Argyll Consultancies +233%
NCI Vehicle Rescue +200%
Bluehone Holdings +188%
Frontier IP Group +137%
V2 Ventures +135%
Qu ercus Publishing +130%
AH Medical Properties +115%
Marshall Lake Mining +100%

(One year share price performance 23/3/09 to 23/3/10)

Famous names on PLUSquoted
Arsenal Football Club - The Gunners successful Premier League club (Value 572m)

Shepherd Neame - Famous brewer and owner of 369 pubs (Value 88m)

Newbury Racecourse - Home to the Hennessey Gold Cup (Value 28m)

English Wines Group - Famous for its Chapel Down Wine (Value 6m)

Some Previous Companies on Ofex/PLUS Quoted

Sportingbet was one of the first, and remains one of the largest, online gaming companies in the world. Its website spans over 30 different markets, across Europe, Australia, Canada, South America and South Africa, localising each product to recognise different languages and currencies and, most importantly, offering local events to local people.

From Wimbledon to the Melbourne Cup, and the Premiership to the Moldovian Football league, Sportingbet offers an unparalleled range of sports to its customers. Now with its market leading in-running betting feature, Sportingbet offers up to 8,000 betting markets every day.

The company was founded by Mark Blandford in February 1998 and is now celebrating its 11th year. In April 1999 it listed on OFEX, the forerunner to PLUS Quoted. In January 2001 it moved on to AIM and in December of that year was awarded the title of Best 2001 OFEX Graduate. It now commands a market cap of over 365million (as of 26.3.10)



Manchester City was floated on OFEX, the forerunner to PLUS Quoted in 1995 with a value of 8 million. In November 1999 broadcaster BSkyB purchased a 9.9% stake in the club for 5.5 million.

In 2007 UK Sports Investments Limited, a company controlled by the former Prime Minister of Thailand, Thaksin Shinawatra, took control of the club in a takeover worth 81.6 million.. In August 2008, the club was purchased by Abu Dhabi United Group a private equity company owned by His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Member of the Abu Dhabi Royal Family and Minister of Presidential Affairs for the UAE. It is alleged he paid 210 for a 90% stake in Manchester City.


NCP National Car Parks, sold two years ago for 801m to Cendant


Weetabix Joined Ofex in 1995. In 2003 Weetabix was gobbled up by Hicks Muse Tate & Furst, the US venture capitalist group, for 642m

Genus is a world leader in applying science to animal breeding. Genus creates advances to animal breeding through biotechnology and sells added value products for livestock farming and food producers. Its non-genetically modified organism technology is applicable across all livestock species but is only commercialised by Genus in the bovine and porcine farming sectors.

Genus plc was established as an independent company following privatisation of the Milk Marketing Board at the end of 1995, being the cattle breeding and agricultural consultancy business of the MMB. Genus joined OFEX in December 1997, having received an unsolicited bid approach from a consortium valuing the business at around 50p per share. Based on its results to September 1997 it commenced trading on the OFEX market at 110p per share.

When Genus left to join the AIM market in July 2000 turnover had reached 133.7 million, and the share price stood at 180p. Today Genus is still traded on AIM with its shares valued at 700p (Market cap 417m)

OK I assumed commercial reasons behind it which sort of makes sense (although not for us.)

Is that news site also yours? Quite neat having news divided up by category so clearly.

http://whois.domaintools.com/businessfinancialnewswire.com - and it is quite a neat idea - try bfnnews.com if you want to save the typing :-)

I also think http://www.directorsholdings.com - another MoneyAM stealth site - looks quite interesting - it probably isn't official yet ;-) Personally really like the design - kudos from me for whoever did that.

Selected further oddities from the greater MoneyAM multiverse:

jobble.com
financialappointments.com
racingam.com - judging from Mike's 827.81% gain he's in the wrong line of work! :-)

Yes they are all ours. BFNNews is a particularly interesting one for us. With the demise of AFX we decided to do our own thing . We produce between 150 and 200 UK stories a day and have found it very popular as a white label solution for third party websites.

And do sign up to racingam, its free but in beta, bit of a different game for us.

And anyone wanting a beta trial of directorsholdings do email me mike@moneyam.com

Can't we just have the features of BFN, directors holdings, etc. in one site? How about one really top class financial site that has everything with might need? Looks like MoneyAM is going to be tinkered with (different fonts/margin sizes) while the interesting new features go elsewhere.

One thing I don't quite understand is that on the company list on the plusquoted.com page ARI, EMG & GKN are not listed, yet I have traded all three today & the paperwork has come through with Plus Market execution venue. I trade through Selftrade, but the venue for the trade seems to be totally random. Presumably a nominee account holder has to go where the broker takes him?

harrycat. plusquoted is for the companies that are 'listed' on PLUS. The 3 you mentioned are listed on the LSE but are tradeable through PLUSmarkets retail platform.

Ah, all is clear now, thanks.

Clicked on the "PLUS" option from a MoneyAM page and Wow! the PlusMarket web page appears (so it's not a MoneyAM site, unless they've bought them out) - AND - alarmingly the Webmaster deceided that it was easier to dump the MoneyAM page return. ((the normal commercial arrangement is to "open a new window" - thus when you close the page you return to where you were)). Oh deary!
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MoneyAM should address this. . . . . . . . .

I have very little in Plus-quoted/listed (grief I still get confused by their language battering)[see Bulshares explanation above].....but I notice that under "B" Barclays Bank plc is quoted(mid) at about 27p - clearly this ISN'T [L.BARC] but the indistinction is allowed to blur (my)/the punter's mind. This was my view, but the website doesn't have LSE-listed companies showinig, maybe I've missed something...however, I remember the confusion of some years ago - and the singular lack of profit from investing in their companies, remains as a warning --so there.
IMHO Plus seems to be more-interested in their own profit than that of the punter that supports their entire purpose....strange business model, still I bought a very few (on AIM), at 8p a few years ago...I should have sold at 30p - but look at it now!

Plus models will do well in Bull-Markets when punters are eager to buy, buy, buy + there is plenty of "fat" in the transactions . . . . for lean-times they need to adress Service - all IMHO