The cash-point marketing company i-design said that revenues for the first half of its current financial year will be ahead of the same period of 2011. The group creates advertising solutions for banks and third parties through cash-point screens. A new contract with a Canadian bank has boosted turnover, with the firm now expecting to turn a small profit-before-tax for the full year.
The share price of medical diagnostics group Omega Diagnostics hit fever pitch after the firm revealed revenue for the year ended March 31st, 2012, is expected to be £11.12m, approximately 41% ahead of last year's result. On a like-for-like basis sales growth is approximately 5%.
Another medical firm, Oxford Biomedica, stormed higher after successfully completing a Phase I/II study of its ProSavin drug for treating patients with mid-stage Parkinson's Disease. The patients receiving the highest dosage of the treatment saw their motor function improve by 30%.
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