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eg Solutions, blur Group, Haydale Graphene, Rightster Group at next forum

Last updated: 03:30 15 Nov 2014 AEDT, First published: 04:30 15 Nov 2014 AEDT

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Next Thursday we would be delighted if you could join us in Mayfair to hear from four fantastic AIM-quoted companies -  eg Solutions (LON:EGS), Haydale Graphene (LON:HAYD), blur Group (LON:BLUR) and Rightster Group (LON:RSTR). 

Each oversees very different projects but all four are united by their exciting and significant progress. To ensure you don't miss out on the event on November 20, secure your place HERE.

Back office software specialist eg solutions has turned a corner after a tough time in 2013. Under new management, it swung back strongly into the black in its latest six months as revenues surged nearly 80% to £4mln after an “exceptional” nine new contracts.

Future sales are also underpinned by a £13mln order book covering the next three to four years, while  finances are improving alongside revenues. The company is now cash generative with an inflow of nearly £700,000 over the past six months.

All round it was an impressive interim performance and added to a growing appreciation in the market of the company’s potential that was kick-started by a big profit upgrade in August.

Since then the shares have risen by a third, but with orders still worth more than the company’s market capitalisation, there would seem to be more value yet to unlock. Joining us to talk through the developments and what’s to come is Elizabeth Gooch, the company’s chief executive.

Haydale Graphene Industries is focused on commercialisation of new “wonder material” graphene. Its technology isa cost-effective and environmentally friendly method to tailor the properties of graphene precisely to meet a certain need  – think bendable mobile phones for one.

Since listing on AIM in April, the focus has been on partnerships and deals to construct the infrastructure required around the world to take full advantage of its technological edge.

Most recently it bought EPL, a developer and tester of polymer materials that has a clutch of household-name UK utilities as customers. Other partners include planarTECH across the Asia-Pacific region, tech hothouse The InVentures Group in New York, advanced materials marketing specialist Goodfellow Cambridge and Swansea University’s world-renowned printing and coatings unit.

It’s a good-looking name check list, but having put in the building blocks, the next phase will be to generate meaningful revenues. Here to talk us through how this will be achieved is chief executive Ray Gibbs.

S-commerce specialist blur Group continues to gain new business, with retailers Argos and Tesco the latest blue-chips to kick off projects via the blur 4.0 business services platform.

They join other big name customers already making use of the crowd-sourcing model via blur's platform, such as Regus, Danone and Amazon.The Exeter-based company also revealed recently a products innovation company has started two new development projects worth in excess of US$500,000, further demonstrating blur's capability for handling large value contracts. Based on N1+1 Singer’s forecasts, blur should move to profitability within two years. Joining us is financial director Stephen Harvey and Barbara Spurrier, Director of Financial Reporting.

Size matters in the YouTube universe and Rightster Group is the largest multi-channel network outside the US. Youtube, owned by Google, has all but replaced TV for the under 20s and Rightster now has 53mln subscribers. Views for the content it distributes online reached a record 1.2bn a month in the quarter just ended.

That was a 211% increase in its audience in just three months. Acquisitions, Viral Management and Base79, boosted the total, but underline this is a company building the scale required to take advantage of a market expected to grow in size to £24bn by 2017.

Rightster’s cloud-based service provides a single, “upload once; commercialise everywhere” platform for providers of all forms of content from news, sports, fashion, entertainment to the owners of viral vids.

Revenues are maximised on a licensed, ad-funded, direct-to-consumer or paid placement basis and are forecast to grow by an impressive 150% net year-on-year in 2014. Joining us to put meat on the bones is chief executive Charlie Muirhead.

Please join us at 5:45pm to allow for a prompt 6pm start. Each company has around 30 minutes to give a short presentation and for Q&A. This will be followed by the 'Champagne Raffle' where four guests will win a bottle each. The evening will end with a drinks reception with canapés.

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