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Upcoming Floats
date	name	activity	location	news
01/08/07	Aisi Realty Public	Property investment	Ukraine
01/08/07	Worldspreads Group	Spreadbetting	Ireland	1
02/08/07	Lewis Charles Romania Property Fund	Property investments	Romania
Late June/Early July	Ludgate Environmental Fund	Investment fund	Jersey
02/08/07	Rapid Realisations Fund	Investments	Guernsey
03/08/07	Et-china.com	Travel services	China
03/08/07	Nordic Land	Property investment	Sweden, Norway
03/08/07	Oakley Capital Investments	Private equity	Bermuda
03/08/07	Sepura	Mobile radio equipment	UK	1
06/08/07	Energybuild	Coal Mining	UK
06/08/07	IdaTech	Fuel cells	US	1
06/08/07	In House Group	Property management	UK
06/08/07	Nviro Cleantech	Environmental technology	UK	1
06/08/07	Wadharma Investments (Kiwara)	Mineral exploration	Zambia
Early August	American Leisure Group	Leisure development	US
10/08/07	Azurite Investments (Hitchens Retail)	Retail investments	UK
10/08/07	Hollywood Media Services	Event services	UK
Missed Stated Date
date	name	activity	location	news
Mid/End-July	Mathon Capital	Commerical property lender	UK
Mid-July	Asia Environmental Partners	Environmental investments	Asia
19/07/07	IMSG	Sales/marketing services	Ireland
Mid-July	Tsar Emerald Corporation	Emerald mining	Russia
18/07/07	Spitfire Oil	Oil producer	Australia
17/07/07	Park Plaza	Hotels	Europe	1
12/07/07	PME African Infrastructure Opportunities	Investments	Africa
06/07/07	Cardsave	Card payments	UK
Early July	Vietnam Infrastructure	Investments	Vietnam
03/07/07	Discover Leisure	Caravan/leisure retailer	UK
Late June	AOI Medical	Orthopaedic devices	US
29/06/07	Equidebt	Debt collector	UK	1
28/06/07	PXP Qudos Vietnam Property Fund	Property Investments	Vietnam
Mid-June	Genesis Worldwide Inc	Construction technology	Canada
07/06/07	Vector Hospitality	Hotels	UK	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Recent Floats
date	name	activity	location	news
31/07/07	Connemara Mining Company (CON)	Zinc/Gold Mining	Ireland
Late July	Epicure Qatar Equity (EQEO)	Investments	Qatar
31/07/07	Pan African Resources (Barberton Mines) (PAF)	Mining	South Africa
26/07/07	Tawa (TAW)	Insurance investments	UK
24/07/07	Africa Opportunity Fund (AOF)	Investments	Africa
24/07/07	CapRegen (CGN)	Biotech investments	UK
24/07/07	India Hospitality Corp (IHC)	Hospitality investments	India
20/07/07	i-design group (IDG)	ATM adverts	UK	1
20/07/07	Mineral Securities (MXX)	Resource investments	British Virgin Islands
18/07/07	Mobile Doctors Group (Petsome) (MDG)	Medico-legal reports	UK
16/07/07	Freshwater UK (FWUK)	Marketing/PR	UK
16/07/07	Shieldtech (Base Group) (STEC)	Ballistic protection equipment	UK
13/07/07	Maple Energy (MPLE)	Oil/gas/ethanol	Peru
12/07/07	Dhir India Investments (DHIR)	Distressed investments	India
12/07/07	Superglass Holdings (SPGH)	Insulation manufacturer	UK
11/07/07	China Real Estate Opportunities (CREO)	Property investment/development	China	1
11/07/07	Trinity Venture Capital (TVC) (TVCH)	Investments	Ireland	1
10/07/07	Minerva Resources (Palladex) (MVA)	Mining	Kyrgyzstan, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone
09/07/07	Plant Offshore Group (POGL)	Oil/gas support	Malaysia
09/07/07	Queenco Leisure International (QLI)	Casino operator	Greece
06/07/07	Jetion Holdings (JHL)	Solar cell manufacturer	China	1
06/07/07	Mount Engineering (MOU)	Engineering	UK
05/07/07	Cobra Holdings (CBRA)	Wholesale insurance	UK
05/07/07	MobilityOne (MBO)	E-commerce payments	Malaysia

2007-08-01 13:20 (v1.0.3)

Floatations worth looking at as per Shares mag this week:
BELLZONE MINING - Late March - AIM - Market Value $4-6m
CSF GROUP - 22nd March - AIM - Market value 85m
EMIS GROUP - 29th March - AIM - Market Value 200m
METRIC PROPERTY - 24th March - MAIN - Market value 150m
SQUARESTONE BRASIL - 22nd March - AIM - Market value 150-250m
SUPERGROUP - 24th March - MAIN - Market value 395m
TELITI INT - H1 2010 - AIM - Market value 35-40m
AFRICAN BARRICK GOLD - NOW - MAIN - Market value $3.9bn

TAN share price up 36% last week - prompted company to put out an RNS announcement just before market close last Friday.

It is a little ambiguous. It could mean that Smith Electric Vehicles (now a US company) is raising more money from private US investors (they willingly and quickly stumped up $58m in 24 hours last March) - or it could be that Smith's long awaited floatation on the Nasdaq stockmarket is imminent - and the share price rise was due to expectation that TAN's price will jump high when that happens. Assuming TAN maintains a substantial stake in Smith (currently 32.2%). Goldman Sachs are known to have been sounding out market enthusiasm for months.

Royal Mail Share Offer
Royal Mail has announced its intention to float on the London Stock Exchange.

Royal Mail has not yet confirmed the date the Initial Public Offering (IPO) will open, however, you can read the Intention to Float and Group factsheet for more details. More information about Royal Mail and the Offer will be made available when the Prospectus is published.

Merlin Entertainments plc ("Merlin" or the "Company"), a global leader in branded, location-based family entertainment, today announces its intention to proceed with an initial public offering (the "IPO" or the "Global Offer"). Merlin intends to apply for admission of its ordinary shares ("Shares") to the premium segment of the Official List of the UK Listing Authority and to trading on the main market of the London Stock Exchange (together, "Admission").

Merlin operates 99 attractions in 22 countries which attracted more than 54 million visitors in 2012, generating total revenue of £1,074.3 million and underlying EBITDA of £346.0 million. It is Europe's leading visitor attraction operator and the second largest globally after Walt Disney.

Merlin's leading position has been built through a combination of organic investment and strategic acquisitions. The Directors of Merlin believe that the Global Offer will position Merlin for the next stage of its development by providing the appropriate long-term ownership structure. The Global Offer will also assist the Group in retaining and incentivising employees.

INVESTMENT EXTRA: Investors see magic in Madame Tussauds owner Merlin as it prepares for £3bn London listing

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/investing/article-2476989/INVESTMENT-EXTRA-Investors-magic-Merlin.html

Merlin to float at offer range between 280-330p. Just to sweeten the deal, they have offered investors who buy more than £1000 of shares, 30% discount at their attractions, such as Alton Towers.

Saga & House of Fraser propose to float in early 2014.

Sharecast- Poundland has started preparations for a stock market listing that will value the company at more than £700m, the Sunday Times said. The economy retailer has hired Rothschild to advise it on the flotation and its ambitions to double to 1,000 shops. It is getting ready for an initial public offering early in 2014.

What's the float price? not a quid by any chance is it?

99p lol

Well in excess of a pound. :-))

Merlin Entertainments brings forward deadlines to participate in IPO

Mon, 04 November 2013




Ahead of its upcoming initial public offering (IPO), Merlin Entertainments has revised the deadlines for institutional investors to express their interest in the bookbuilding process and for the receipt of completed applications from retail investors by approved intermediaries.

The deadlines for both have now been set at 17:00 on November 7th 2013.

On October 30th the company had said that the institutional offer bookbuilding process was expected to close at 17:00 on November 11th 2013.

The last date for the receipt of applications by Intermediaries had been set at 17:00 on November 8th.

The company continues to envisage that around 85-90% of the global offer will be allocated to institutional investors through the institutional offer.

Twitter raises the projected price range for its IPO

Mon, 04 November 2013


Social media firm Twitter has raised the projected price range for shares at its initial public offering by as much 25 per cent, putting it on track to raise 1.75bn dollars.

The micro-blogging site is now to offer 70m shares at an individual price of between $23 to $25, the firm said in a regulatory filing.

That would indicate a market value of as much as $13.6bn when the stock begins trading.

Twitter had earlier proposed selling shares for $17 to $20 each.

I have applied for some Merlin. Well at least I can get to be a boy again at Alton Towers on the cheap.

Also thinking about this any thoughts?

NEW IPO Offer: Infinis Energy plc

An opportunity to buy shares in Infinis Energy, the UK's third largest renewable power generator.

Infinis Energy has announced an initial public offering (IPO) of Ordinary shares on the main market for listed securities of the London Stock Exchange. Infinis Energy is one of the UK's leading generators of renewable power. It operates a growing portfolio of landfill gas, onshore wind and hydro plants across the UK. In view of the challenging decarbonisation targets adopted by the UK government by 2020, it has a unique opportunity to play an active role in building out the UK renewable power generation capacity requirements over the coming decade.

Infinis Energy operates a portfolio of 147 renewable generation sites across the UK and is in the process of developing many more, with a particular growth focus on onshore wind and hydro schemes. In the year to 31 March 2013, Infinis Energy generated approximately 7 per cent of the UK's renewable power and was the third largest renewable generator in the UK. In the past three years Infinis Energy completed acquisitions with the total enterprise value of just under £475 million. During the year £60.6 million was paid as a dividend to the shareholder. Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results.

May help Martini - Infinis IPO pricing and intermediary offer confirmed by Terra Firma

Tue, 05 November 2013




Wind power producer Infinis Energy will be valued at up to 930m pounds in its forthcoming London flotation, the company’s private equity owner Terra Firma has announced.

Shares in Infinis, the UK’s third-largest producer of renewable power, will be priced at between 260p and 310p, producing a market capitalisation of between £780m and £930m when the shares are launched onto the London Stock Exchange on November 15th.

The entire initial public offer consists of Terra Firma, the private equity company founded by Guy Hands, selling between 90m and 120m shares, or 30% and 40% of its majority stake.

As with Royal Mail's float, the company will continue the trend of offering shares to retail investors through an intermediaries offer, via stock brokers such as Hargreaves Lansdown, Halifax, Barclays, Interactive Investor and The Share Centre, with a minimum threshold for individual investors of £1,000.

Individual retail investors have until November 13th to make their orders, while institutional order books run by Barclays, Deutsche Bank and RBC Capital Markets are scheduled to close the day after.

is guy hands dumping his shares on pi's?

Ex-Asos Chairman Alli to float Indian rival Koovs on AIM

Wed, 13 November 2013



The former Chairman of online fashion sensation Asos has set out plans to float an Indian copycat online retailer on London's AIM.

Koovs has set out plans to raise £22m with its initial public offer (IPO), according to the Financial Times.

Lord Waheed Alli, the media baron who chaired Asos between 2003 and 2012, is chair of Koovs and has brought in former Asos director Robert Bready as Creative & Retail Director, who will be backed by a design and buying team based in London.

Bangalore-based Koovs was founded in 2010 as a daily deals website, but switched course to 'lifestyle e-tailing' in 2012 when a large stake was taken by Anant Nahata, scion of the family that runs India's HFCL telecoms group.

Koovs, which even has adopted a very similar website design to Asos, now focuses on affordable western fashion rather than Indian ethnic clothing, aping celebrity fashions to appeal to middle-class working men and women aged 18-30 years, exactly like the London-based company.

The owners plan to float about 35% of the company with 44% owned by the Nahata family, 11% by Lord Alli and the remainder with management.


http://sharecast.com/news/ex-asos-chairman-alli-to-float-indian-rival-koovs-on-aim/21288758.html

DC
I do not think the private investor will be offered any so have to wait for first day - whenever that will be!! Could be interesting with Robert Bready on board.

Thanks David. Still waiting for the Rosslyn Analytics IPO. £100 million float from another big data company. Should have been at the back end of the summer,

I'll keep an eye on that too looks interesting

As Shares Said ' It could be a story worth backing from the off'.
Market whispers had said Rosslyn has accelerated its float plans following the stunning success of server replication expert WANdisco