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10 Mar 2025

Warehouse REIT secures 375,000 sq ft lease renewal at Midpoint 18

Warehouse REIT (WHR) has announced that it has agreed a 375,000 sq ft, ten-year lease renewal at Midpoint 18, Middlewich, with Wincanton Plc, a leading supply chain specialist and one of the largest occupiers in WHR’s portfolio. Wincanton will be paying a new headline rent of £6.50 per square foot, rising to a minimum of […]

10 Mar 2025

HydrogenOne Capital Growth’s Elcogen announces SYRIUS Project in green steel

HydrogenOne Capital Growth (HGEN) says that its portfolio company Elcogen AS, which it describes as a leading European manufacturer of solid oxide technology, has announced the launch of the Horizon Europe SYRIUS project, with Acciai Speciali Terni Spa, a leader in Europe’s stainless-steel sector. As at 31 December 2024, HydrogenOne’s investment in Elcogen represented 18% […]

10 Mar 2025

TRIG completes sale stake in German offshore wind farm

The Renewables Infrastructure Group (TRIG) has announced that it has completed on the sale of a 15.2% equity interest in the 330MW Gode offshore wind farm project in Germany, originally announced on 1 August 2024, at a 9% premium to carrying value. The completion follows the receipt of relevant consents and clearances, and TRIG has […]

10 Mar 2025

QuotedData’s morning briefing 10 March 2025 – MTU, INV, IPU/AFL, SOHO, WHR

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 10 March 2025: Montanaro UK Smaller Companies (MTU) has published a circular seeking to renew the trust’s repurchase authority (for up to 21,640,007 ordinary shares, or, if fewer, that number of ordinary shares which is equal to 14.99% of MTU’s issued ordinary share capital (excluding treasury shares) at the date of […]

07 Mar 2025

Vietnam Enterprise announces 100% conditional tender in 2030

Vietnam Enterprise (VEIL) has said that it proposes to introduce a five-year performance-related 100% tender offer that will be conditional on VEIL’s NAV total return underperforming against its reference index, currently the Vietnam Ho Chi Minh Stock Index (VN Index), over the five-year period from close of business on 31 March 2025 to close of […]

07 Mar 2025

Alliance Witan publishes first set of results since merger

Alliance Witan (ALW) has published its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2024, which it describes as a landmark year – 2024 saw the trust promoted to the FTSE 100 merger following the merger with Witan. ALW’s share price was £12.44 as of 31 December 2024, representing a share price total return of […]

07 Mar 2025

QuotedData’s morning briefing 7 March 2025 – AJOT, UTL, JEMI, JEMA

In QuotedData’s morning briefing 7 March 2025: AVI Japan Opportunity (AJOT) has appointed Singer Capital Markets to manage an irrevocable share repurchase programme to buy back ordinary shares within certain pre-set parameters. The programme commences today and will run until 7 April 2025. UIL Limited (UTL) says that, further to its announcement on 10 December […]

04 Mar 2025

abrdn goes full circle, rebranding itself as Aberdeen

The investment management firm abrdn has announced that it is reversing its widely derided rebrand of 2021, which saw it remove the vowels from its name. The firm, which in the past has been known as Aberdeen Standard Life and Aberdeen Asset Management, will now be known as Aberdeen Group. The change was announced with […]

03 Mar 2025

HICL Infrastructure increases share buyback programme by £100m

Following the publication of an ‘interim update statement’ this morning (covered in our morning briefing), HICL Infrastructure has announced that it is expanding its share buyback programme by a further £100m (its initial £50m share buyback programme completed last week). HICL says that the programme will commence today and end no later than 31 December […]

03 Mar 2025

Aquila Energy Efficiency sells German Bio-LNG and Italian Superbonus investments

Aquila Energy Efficiency Trust (AEET) has agreed to realise its Bio-LNG investment in Germany and the majority of its Italian Superbonus investments for a combined gross consideration of €31.84m. AEET’s board says that it will make a significant distribution to shareholders following receipt of these realisations and that a further announcement will be made in […]