Birmingham, 19 March 2009

Company descriptions and their presentations from the day


The firm was established in 1883, went public in 1958, changing its name to Goodwin PLC in 1982. It has an engineering commitment with investment criteria aimed at the profitable, efficient, economic supply of technically advanced products to growth markets. The current Chairman and Chief Executive have both successfully led the group for the last 15 years, during which time it has been consistently profitable, showing average annual growth in turnover of over 10% and annual compound profit growth in excess of 21 %. Half year profit of £6.8 M up 44% on turnover of £46.8 M up 34% was made in the half year ending 31st Oct 08
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Amino specialises in digital entertainment solutions for IPTV, Internet TV and in-home multimedia distribution. Amino’s range of software and set-top box systems can be tailored for telecom, broadcast and hospitality companies to offer highly scalable and targeted services. The award-winning AmiNET™ and Mood range is used by leading service operators in over 80 countries.
Amino Communications and AssetHouse are wholly owned subsidiaries of Amino Technologies PLC. Listed on the London Stock Exchange AIM, symbol AMO. Amino's HQ is based near Cambridge, UK, with offices in the US, China and Sweden.


Maxima holdings plc floated on AIM in 2004.  It was established to acquire businesess supplying IT solutions and services, with the objective of building a broad IT services group.  On flotation it immediately acquired Azur Holdings Ltd, bringing together a management team with the skill, experience and incentive to deliver significant shareholder value, through a combination of acquisitive and organic growth.
It has since made a further eleven acquisitions, expanding the scope of its operations to embrace information, applications and infrastructure managed services. 
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Oxford Instruments is a world-wide business, supplying commercially successful, high-tech tools and systems into diverse markets including industry, research, education, space, energy and defence. It has offices and manufacturing sites in over 25 locations, world-wide with customers benefitting from local support, backed by an international network of Oxford Instruments’ teams, agents and distributors – all part of a robust, established public company.
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Mattioli Woods plc was established by Ian Mattioli and Bob Woods in 1991 with a view to providing a pensions trouble-shooting and advisory service for owner managers, senior executives, professionals and small to medium sized PLCs.  Founded on a strong culture of client care, the group has grown dynamically year-on-year since inception, and became a public company following its listing on AIM in November 2005. Centred in the East Midlands, Mattioli Woods now acts for over 3,000 pension fund clients, principally self-invested personal pensions (SIPP) and small self-administered schemes (SSAS), carrying funds under trusteeship of over £1.4 billion. 
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S&U Plc is the foremost specialist lender in home credit and motor consumer finance in the UK. Founded in 1938, it started to develop its consumer finance based home credit business in 1975 and launched Advantage Finance, its motor finance subsidiary, in 1999. The home credit business, branded as loansathome4u, services 125,000 customers throughout the United Kingdom excluding Northern Ireland and the motor finance business has 11,000 customers currently on its books.
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IQE plc is the leading global supplier of advanced semiconductor wafers with products that cover a diverse range of applications. The Company is able to provide a 'one stop shop' for the wafer needs of the world's leading compound semiconductor manufacturers, who in turn use these wafers to make the chips which form the key components of virtually every high technology system. The group has particular focus on the growing global wireless sector for applications including: mobile handsets; wireless devices; global positioning; and satellite communications.
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