London, 22 October 2009
AssetCo has pioneered the development of the most extensive range of integrated support services. Our approach enables our clients to select from a unique menu of products and service options to meet all their specialist needs. AssetCo has highly developed skills and experience in supporting mission critical operational infrastructures; and we have years of direct experience in managing risk transfer. Our practical skills and strength in the emergency services supply chain is recognised by clients as immense value when brought to the benefit of a public sector partner operation in increasingly complex environments.
We have proven success with major contracts for London Fire Brigade, the third largest Fire Brigade in the world, and Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue, one of the largest rural authorities in the UK.
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Biocompatibles International plc is a leading medical technology company in the field of drug-device combination products.
The Oncology Products Division supplies medical devices from facilities in Farnham, UK and Oxford, CT. These include Drug-Eluting Bead Products which are used in more than 35 countries for the treatment of primary liver cancer (HCC), liver metastases from colorectal cancer, and other cancers; and Brachytherapy products (Radiation-Delivering Seeds) which are used in the treatment of prostate cancer. Our distribution partners include AngioDynamics Inc., Terumo Corporation and Eisai Co. Ltd. We have a clinical collaboration agreement with Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Our Licensing Division includes CellMed, in Alzenau, Germany, which is developing a Drug-Eluting Bead product for the treatment of stroke, based on proprietary stem cell technology; a GLP-1 analogue for the treatment of diabetes and obesity partnered with AstraZeneca; and a cosmetic Dermatology Bead partnered with Merz Pharmaceuticals GmbH. We also have a PC Licensing agreement with Medtronic Inc. in the field of Drug-Eluting Stents.
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Ceres Power is a leading fuel cell business, committed to providing alternative energy solutions to address the global challenges of reducing emissions, increasing fuel efficiency and improving energy security.
Residential combined heat and power is at the heart of the company’s product range, in which Ceres cells use fuel and air to generate electricity and heat via a highly efficient, environmentally friendly solid state electrochemical process.
Ceres’ patented technology is a new generation of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC), enabling products to be compact, rugged, load following and manufactured using low cost materials.
The Company is targeting global mass market opportunities in micro-generation, creating electricity at the point of use to avoid the wasted heat and transmission losses associated with conventional centralised power generation. As part of its B2B business model, Ceres has established volume contracts with major energy companies as channels to market (including British Gas and Calor Gas). Focusing initially on residential CHP in the UK, the Company is pursuing a growth strategy targeting a range of markets and products underpinned by its breakthrough technology.
After a recent site visit to its Headquarters, the UK Prime Minister described Ceres Power as “one of the most promising companies in the country”.
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Eredene Capital PLC is a leading specialist investor in Indian infrastructure. Formed in 2005, it focuses on ports/port services, distribution warehouses/logistics and transportation and has made nine investments to date. Three of its investments are revenue producing (one being dividend paying) and a fourth is taking sales deposits. Its major shareholders include Caledonia Investments, Ruffer, Henderson and Jupiter. It works closely with strong local partners in India, including Apeejay Surrendra (owner of Tyhpoo Tea) and has a specialist exclusive advisory team in India, many of whom were connected with P&O’s operations in India prior to its takeover by Dubai Ports World. Eredene Capital PLC has a proven investment portfolio, a strong deal pipeline, a highly experienced investment and operational team in India and the UK and deep sector knowledge.
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Future plc is an international special-interest media group. Founded in 1985 with one magazine, today we have operations in the UK, US and Australia creating over 180 special-interest publications, websites and events for people who are passionate about their interests. We hold strong market positions in games, film, music, technology, cycling, automotive and crafts. Our biggest-selling magazines include T3, Total Film, Digital Camera, Fast Car, Classic Rock, Guitar World, Official Xbox Magazine, Official Playstation Magazine, Nintendo Power, Maximum PC and MacLife. Our websites include gamesradar.com, bikeradar.com, techradar.com, musicradar.com, photoradar.com and dailyradar.com. Future sells nearly 4 million magazines each month; we attract more than 25 million unique visitors to our websites; and we host 25 annual live events that attract hundreds of thousands of enthusiasts. In addition, Future exports, syndicates or licenses its publications to 90 countries internationally, making us the UK's number one exporter and licensor of monthly magazines.
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Monitise plc, the mobile money people, has created the world's first mobile banking networks, which allow customers of multiple banks and mobile operators to perform banking and payment transactions directly from their mobile handset. With live services in the UK and the USA, where it has delivered the Monlink and Monitise networks in partnership with VocaLink and Metavante Corporation respectively, the Company is currently working with international partners to deliver similar safe, secure mobile banking & payment services in territories worldwide. In June 2009, Monitise announced a global strategic alliance with Visa Inc. In the UK, banks representing well over 55% of UK current account holders have now deployed the Monitise Mobile Money services, and in the USA over 100 partner banks and financial institutions are signed up. Monitise has more than 750,000 customers.
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Nighthawk Energy is an oil and gas company with a focus on the development of, and production from, hydrocarbon projects in the United States. Nighthawk holds substantial equity in several projects across the U.S. mid-continent, all of which are operated by Running Foxes Petroleum Inc., Nightawk’s partner and holder of the remaining interest in each project.
The Company's principal focus is on two core projects, the Jolly Ranch Group Projects in Colorado, a combined unconventional shale oil and conventional oil play and the Revere Project on the Kansas/Missouri border, a shallow waterflood oil project with additional gas reservoirs. Recent independent appraisal currently attributes 844 million barrels of oil in place (on a P50/most likely basis) net to Nighthawk on these core assets. Nighthawk’s strategy for growth is to expand the resource and reserve base and markedly increase the production profile through a cost effective and focused appraisal and development programme which will include the drilling of over 200 wells at Revere and 20 wells at Jolly, including a number of horizontal wells, to assess the producibility of this potentially world-class asset.