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The following is a round-up of updates by London-listed companies, issued on Wednesday and not separately reported by Alliance News: ---------- Xaar PLC - Cambridge, England-based industrial inkjet manufacturer - Expects to report revenue of £60.3 million for 2025, up 17% on a like-for-like basis, against £61.4 million in 2024. Says revenue has been stable in core ceramics segments with growth from newer products and markets, while Printhead revenue rose 29%. Xaar expects full-year adjusted profits to be marginally ahead of expectations and reports a net cash position of around £4.8 million at December 31, down from £8.2 million one year prior. Says it is ‘optimistic about the range and scale of the opportunities ahead’. ---------- DP Poland PLC - operator of Domino’s Pizza stores and restaurants in Poland and Croatia - Group system sales for 2025 rise 8.3% on-year at constant currency and by 11% at reported currency to £61.4 million. For the fourth quarter, sales rise 22% at reported rates and 14% at CER. Pre-IFRS 16 earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation for the year has more than doubled to £2.6 million, in line with market guidance, from £1.1 million. Company says it is prioritising accelerating its transition to a franchise-led, capital-light operating model. Anticipates this will be its main driver of system sales growth, margin expansion and improved returns. Also expects strategic and operational initiatives to support Ebitda margin improvements. ---------- Cirata PLC - Sheffield, England-based software solutions provider - Says total contract value for data integration in the fourth quarter is $9.8 million, more than quadrupled from $2.3 million the prior year. TCV for 2025 more than doubles to $13.2 million from $4.7 million. Total contract bookings for the year increase 96% to $13.9 million from $7.1 million. Says 2025 is its strongest bookings year for DI since 2017. Says it has realigned its target cost base to an annualised total of $12 million to $13 million exiting the fourth quarter, compared with a $16 million to $17 million run-rate exiting the first quarter. ‘As we go forward through 2026, we consider the continued success of our expansion win strategy to be a critical component of our growth,’ Cirata says. ---------- Alkemy Capital Investments PLC - critical minerals-focused investor - Says the front-end engineering design study for subsidiary Tees Valley Lithium Ltd’s UK lithium refining facility in Teesside is more than 90% complete. Expects this ‘to confirm TVL as one of Europe’s lowest capital and operating cost refineries.’ Says lithium market conditions are improving, noting that prices have increased 60% on-year, which reinforces ‘the strategic importance of progressing a cost-competitive, battery-grade lithium refining capability in the UK’. Says the facility’s layout is optimised to deliver 30% greater production efficiency per acre, that supply chain engagement is strong, and that the Veolia process design is complete and delivering a lithium recovery in excess of 94%. ---------- M Winkworth PLC - London-based franchisor of real estate agencies - Expects 2025 adjusted pretax profit to be 20% below market expectations at approximately £2.1 million, down from £2.4 million in 2024. Says trading conditions softened more than expected in the second half, reflecting a broader slowdown in market activity ahead of the government’s Autumn budget. Says, however, that this was temporary and that the announced measures did not materially alter the underlying supply and demand dynamics in its markets. Expects deferred transactions to progress as confidence improves, and is ‘encouraged by strong levels of enquiry reported across the network so far in January’. Adds that it enters this year with a healthy pipeline of further franchising opportunities. Also, M Winkworth declares a 3.3 pence per share fourth-quarter dividend, unchanged annually but bringing the total dividend for 2025 to 13.2p, up 7.3% from 12.3p. ---------- Truetide PLC - Glasgow, Scotland-based investor in listed and unlisted companies in technology sector, formerly known as Braveheart Investment Group PLC - Says Paraytec, in which it has a 100% interest, has started a development program to establish a high-throughput, real-time fluorescent assay for alpha-synuclein fibril formation using the CX300 detection system. Says alpha-synuclein aggregation is widely regarded as the central pathological process in Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. If Paraytec’s planned work is successful, it ‘expects to possess a proprietary, accurate, rapid and low-cost assay that is currently unavailable from any commercial source in a format optimised for the CX300 platform.’ Such an assay could potentially become a preferred screening tool for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, Truetide says. It sees Paraytec’s investment ‘as a high-return opportunity to establish clear technical differentiation for the CX300 platform in one of the most commercially attractive areas of neurodegenerative disease research.’ ---------- Eqtec PLC - London-based provider of syngas technology and engineering services for converting waste into sustainable energy and biofuels - Outlines a complementary strategic expansion alongside its core gasification business. Says it plans a capital-light move into critical and precious metals assets linked to global electrification to introduce nearer-term cash flow while its waste-to-value projects mature. Intends to prioritise opportunities that are cash-generative ‘or near-term production’; capital-light at the point of entry; situated in established, lower-risk jurisdictions; and positioned for value uplift. Says it already has an active pipeline under evaluation. Adds that its lenders are supportive of the broadened strategy and it is in advanced talks on a debt restructuring aimed at deleveraging the balance sheet and improving liquidity. Also, Eqtec announces that Executive Chair David Palumbo is transitioning to non-executive chair effective immediately, and will remain as chair until a suitable appointment is made ‘to a successor with direct experience across both technology and complementary asset resources.’ Finally, Eqtec has received a conversion notice for the principal amount of £50,000 of the Global Investment Strategy UK Ltd facility, to be converted into 122.5 million new shares at 0.0408p each. ---------- Copyright 2026 Alliance News Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
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