2012 Sponsors

The Grant Thornton Quoted Company Awards are pleased to welcome the following companies as sponsors of the 2012 awards:

Grant Thornton – Headline Sponsor

Grant Thornton UK is a leading financial and business adviser with over 4,000 partners and staff operating from 30 locations nationwide. The firm has an unrivalled track record in advising AIM-listed companies, or those seeking to be listed, built up over the 15 years that the market has been in existence.

Growth Company Investor – Headline Sponsor

Growth Company Investor is widely recognised as the UK's leading authority on fast-growing companies. With a team of 12 dedicated researchers and experienced journalists, our coverage is extensive as well as insightful. We interview on average 400 CEOs every year and we track over 2,000 companies. Published ten times a year, the magazine offers subscribers unrivalled insight into high-potential smaller companies delivered direct to your door. Each issue covers over 200 companies, with company news, expert share recommendations, informative features, research, specialist columns, directors' dealings, brokers' tips and much, much more. Subscribers also benefit from daily online updates, including smaller company recommendations as they are unearthed, company updates, over 12,000 smaller company commentaries, email newsletters and deep archives. You can also access share prices, charts, portfolios and search tools online.

Argus Vickers – Event Sponsor

Argus Vickers works closely with public limited companies, their broker and their nomad to enhance their visibility and measure the impact of their investor relations strategies. Argus information is used on 70% of UK sales, trading and corporate finance desks, which assists in creating further liquidity for the Plc. Argus services include: institutional and beneficial ownership/movements for 2,200 quoted companies; history of equity ownership for the past ten years; weighting and peer comparisons against the market and AIM; section 793 and section 808 analysis; and analysis of a share register the same day you request it. www.argusvickers.co.uk

London Stock Exchange – Event Sponsor

The London Stock Exchange is at the heart of the global financial market and is home to some of the largest, most successful and dynamic companies in the world.

The Exchange's markets are specifically designed to cater for the particular needs of different companies, offering the widest choice of routes to market. With access to an unrivalled network of sophisticated investors and professional advisers, London offers proven, cost-effective capital raising opportunities to companies. www.londonstockexchange.com

Millnet Financial – Event Sponsor

Millnet is the UK’s leading provider of electronic and paper document production and review for the financial and legal sectors. The range of services offered extends from digital print and distribution, scanning and e-bibles to leading-edge solutions for virtual data rooms and electronic document review. Millnet has a demonstrable track record of producing essential time-critical documents in circumstances that are generally very demanding. In the financial markets, Millnet is the financial document specialist of choice.

Quoted Companies Alliance – Event Sponsor

The Quoted Companies Alliance campaigns, educates and provides networking for quoted companies, particularly small and mid-sized quoted companies. The small and mid-sized quoted sector is vital to the UK economy – there are nearly 2,000 such companies, representing 85% of all quoted companies. Celebrating 20 years in 2012, we are an independent not-for-profit organisation. Our membership consists of small and mid-sized quoted companies, their advisors, investors, companies seeking admission to a UK equity market and other market participants. For more information, please visit www.theqca.com

Shore Capital – Investor of the Year Award Sponsor

Founded in 1985, Shore Capital has become one of London’s leading independent investment houses specialising in equity capital market activities and investment in alternative assets.

Shore Capital Markets offers a wide range of services for companies, institutions and other sophisticated clients including corporate finance, stockbroking and market-making.

Shore Capital Limited manages specialist funds, with a particular focus on alternative asset classes, and has £1.3 billion in funds under management. Shore Capital International Limited provides investment banking and asset management services in Germany and Eastern Europe.

Walbrook Public Relations - PR Sponsor

Walbrook PR provides Financial Public Relations and Investor Relations to Small Cap. and AIM listed companies communicating to four key groups: (1) The Financial Media, (2) Sell-side Research Analysts, (3) Private Client Investment Managers, and (4) Institutional Fund Managers.

Walbrook PR has been the best performing Financial PR Adviser over the last 2 years (by number of AIM listed clients) and has a strong reputation for working with Smaller Growth Companies with clients ranging from £3m Mkt Cap to £300m Mkt Cap across a wide variety of sectors.

For more information please look at our website www.walbrookpr.com or contact Paul McManus on paul.mcmanus@walbrookpr.com

Winterflood Securities – CEO of the Year Award Sponsor

Winterflood Securities is an international capital markets firm committed to efficient and responsive liquidity provision with integrity. Classic trading values and sophisticated modern technology combine to deliver a range of highly-flexible execution services custom-designed for each client.

As one of the leading European liquidity providers, Winterflood makes markets in more UK stocks than any other firm (source: London Stock Exchange). It has a team of over 70 traders who bring a wealth of experience and commitment to market making, offering brokers, asset managers and institutional investors over 13,000 tradable instruments including UK, European and North American equities together with investment trusts, ETPs, Gilts and bonds.

www.winterflood.com

finnCap – Award Sponsor

Profile to follow.

PLUS-SX – Deal of the Year Award Sponsor

PLUS Stock Exchange (PLUS-SX) is a Recognised Investment Exchange (RIE) providing UK and international companies with straightforward and cost-effective access to European capital through its markets for fully listed and growth companies.

PLUS-SX helps growth companies to achieve their ambitions. It is a proven source of equity finance for companies coming to the public market for the first time as well as being an established venue for existing issuers to raise further funds. It provides wide exposure for companies within a dedicated smaller companies marketplace. The clear and simple admission process does not impose specific eligibility criteria but requires companies to meet certain basic standards to ensure investor confidence and protection. The regulatory environment allows management to devote its energy to what it does best - generating value for shareholders.

To find out more about PLUS-SX visit www.plus-sx.com or call Vivienne Cassley on 020 7429 7831

Religare Capital Markets (RCM) - Emerging Market CEO of the Year Award

Profile to follow.

WH Ireland

WH Ireland focuses on corporate broking and private client wealth management.

We provide corporate broking services in London, Manchester, Bristol and Leeds. This enables us to provide a high quality, local service to our clients, whilst providing access to centralised trading and the investment community in London.

We differentiate ourselves from many competitors by focusing on smaller companies, which we can promote to our private clients to supplement institutional demand.

Being one of the few corporate brokers still to have private clients, WH Ireland is ideally placed to raise capital for corporate clients under the revised EIS legislation.

Since December 2010, we have carried out over 30 equity issues and have been appointed to act for over 20 companies, making us the 4th largest NOMAD.