2009 Sponsors

Headline Sponsors

Grant Thornton UK is a leading financial and business adviser with 4,500 partners and staff operating out of 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 13 years
that the market has been in existence.

As a result of the firm investing time in understanding the needs of AIM companies, it
is retained by 250 UK and overseas AIM-listed companies – more than any other adviser. Grant Thornton is the leading auditor and reporting accountant to AIM companies, of which it advises 200. It is the leading independent nominated adviser to AIM and has executed 190 AIM mandates. Its 65 retained clients have raised £1.5 billion in the past 12 months.

As the UK member of Grant Thornton International, one of the world’s leading
international organisations of independently owned and managed accounting and
consulting firms, Grant Thornton UK can offer clients access to professional advice
delivered by other Grant Thornton International firms from around 520 offices in
over 110 countries.

Growth Company Investor is widely recognised as the UK's leading authority on fast-growing companies. Published ten times a year, the magazine offers subscribers unrivalled insight into high-potential smaller companies via company news, expert share recommendations, informative features, research, specialist columns, brokers' tips and much, much more.

Premium Sponsors

CITY A.M. launched in September 2005 as the first newspaper aimed exclusively at London’s financial and business areas. It’s distributed from 6am, Monday to Friday, at key commuter points as office workers pour into the City of London and Canary
Wharf districts. The newspaper has established more than 1,000 corporate distribution points, as well as airport distribution. The paper’s positioning – ‘business with personality’ – combines the latest business news and analysis with leisure, lifestyle and sports editorial. Brand extensions include the CITY P.M. podcast, available to download from www.cityam.com/podcast every weekday from 5pm.

Located at the centre of the financial industry, the London Stock Exchange is universally recognised as the world’s foremost international exchange. Its dedication to excellence is demonstrated through its world-class technical and trading offering combined with its superior client service and partnership. The London Stock Exchange enables companies from global giants to smaller enterprises around the world to raise the capital they need to grow.

The Quoted Companies Alliance (QCA) is the only organisation dedicated solely to fighting for the interests of small- and mid-cap companies in one of the most important sectors of the UK economy – the thousands of companies outside the FTSE 350 on the Main List, including those companies on AIM and the PLUS markets. Its members include companies seeking listing on a UK equity market, either the Main Market (ex FTSE 350), AIM or the PLUS markets. The QCA promotes the interests and views of its members to Government, Europe, regulators and other professional bodies, educates its members on best practices and provides a vital forum for networking to help its members stay ahead. Celebrating 16 years in 2008, the QCA forms its views through highly focused committees and working groups comprising senior representatives from across the smaller quoted-companies sector.

The Financial Mail on Sunday is the UK’s leading Sunday business section, with a readership of 6.5 million and more ABC1 readers than any other Sunday newspaper. The Financial Mail has a strong following in the business community and the City, attracting more small- and medium-sized business owners than any of its rivals. With two pages
dedicated to enterprise, the paper maintains a strong focus on the success of Britain’s
entrepreneurs and is keen to highlight the stories of the growing companies that are so often neglected by other areas of the media.

Millnet is the UK’s leading provider of electronic and paper document production and review for the financial and legal sectors. Millnet has a demonstrable track record of producing essential and time-critical documents in circumstances that are generally very demanding. In the financial markets, Millnet is the financial printer of choice, having produced the prospectus, offer and other shareholder documentation for over 380 transactions in 2007.

Growth Company Investor is widely recognised as the UK's leading authority on fast-growing companies. Published ten times a year, the magazine offers subscribers unrivalled insight into high-potential smaller companies via company news, expert share recommendations, informative features, research, specialist columns, brokers' tips and much, much more.