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Alliance Pharma, Brightside Group and Motive Television to present at next week's forum

Published: 02:00 11 May 2013 AEST

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Proactive Investors is serving up a tantalising mix of pharma, tech and financial services at its London forum next week.

At the Chesterfield Mayfair Hotel, London on Thursday, May 16, we will be showcasing Alliance Pharma (LON:APH), Brightside Group (LON:BRT) and Motive Television (LON:MTV). Register for the event here.

Alliance Pharma’s formula for success is to acquire low-risk, cash generative, out of patent, but well established drugs brands. And it is a strategy that has served the company well - as the stellar performance of the share price over the last five years reveals. “As we get bigger, clearly we are able to do larger deals; it really depends on the opportunities,” chief executive John Dawson told Proactive Investors recently.

City broker Hardman reckons Alliance has scope to make around £30mln of acquisitions over the next 30 months without needing to raise new equity. John will join us next week to walk us through the company’s plans, which includes taking the Alliance template overseas.

Competing in a world of talking meerkats, obnoxious tenors and perambulating telephones is challenging, but insurance broking and financial services specialist Brightside seems to be managing all right. With a market capitalisation of £114mln it is probably not ready to start making TV commercials of its own just yet. A more sensible option is returning cash to shareholders in the form of dividends.

Its maiden payout, announced with its interim results in September, marks it out as a rarity – an income paying AIM stock. A 21% advance in the share price also marks it out as a fairly solid growth stock. Affinity partnerships (we would call them white label deals) with supermarket chains and department store groups are likely to be the growth engine and will help compensate for competitive pressure on the margins of some is existing business, broker FinnCap believes. Joining us next week to tell us more will be chief executive Martyn Holman.

Meanwhile, AIM-listed minnow Motive Television has technology that can provide TV “anytime, anywhere”. TV Anytime enables digital broadcasters and pay-TV operators to offer “red button” broadcasting services – video on demand, catch-up TV etc - to customers, whether they have an internet connection or not.  TV Anywhere gives the user the ability to control and view live or recorded content from their main home TV rig on any internet connected device, whether it be a desktop computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone.  The company has a couple of major clients for its traditional set-top box service – Italian broadcasting giant Mediaset and Turkish satellite broadcaster Digiturk – but it is its Tablet TV division that, arguably, is getting the tech world most excited. Frank Sinatra may once have said of New York that if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere, but for the geeks of this world San Francisco (SF) is the place to lose your heart, so all eyes will be on Motive TV’s demo in SF later this year of its disruptive technology that delivers live broadcast television and video-on-demand to tablets and smartphones. Joining us at the forum will be chairman Michael Pilsworth.

Please join us at 5:45pm to allow for a prompt start at 6pm. Each company has around 30 minutes to give a short presentation and for Q&A.

Following the presentations there will be a complimentary bar and an assortment of the finest hot & cold canapés, giving you the opportunity to speak with the directors and other investors.
** We will be entering guests that arrive before 6pm into our prize draw to win a case of fine champagne that we’ll be giving away after the presentations have finished **

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