AIM Listed Companies

AIM Listed Companies

What is AIM?

AIM is the London Stock Exchange's market for smaller companies. When created, the object was to provide a framework and service akin to the main exchange without all the legal jargon that puts many smaller business holders off, and to offer AIM listed companies the chance to raise capital in similar style to their larger peers. This had to be done in an orderly and well managed fashion so that potential investors would not be put off.

Since AIM's inception, in 1995, there have been more than 2500 AIM listed companies. These companies vary between the small venture capital inspired start-ups, to developed companies with an eye to the future. The common denominator was and still is a desire to grow. AIM listed companies have benefited from £34bn in IPOs and other capital injections, in their quest to grow and develop, and many have gone on to join the full exchange market.

To become one of the next AIM listed companies you don't need to

• Have a proven financial or business record
• Be a minimum size
• Have a certain percentage of shares in public hands

You do need to want to have the chance to raise capital, helped by AIM's Nominated Advisors (NOMADS), and to work within a flexible framework where the regulations are easy to understand and not couched in technical jargon. AIM listed companies get the benefit of AIM's experienced professional specialists to help them through the admissions process right through until they get their AIM quotation, and then on as they continue to grow.

Benefits for AIM Listed Companies

The London Stock Exchange provides an easy to understand set of rules & regulations which can be followed with the help your NOMAD. Within AIM's framework AIM listed companies and investors get the benefit of LSE's world renowned reputation for the way in which they are managed and is striving to become international businesses first choice for the growth market for smaller companies. In its first year (1995) more than five hundred businesses from 26 different countries became AIM listed. AIM listed companies also benefit from the ever growing international investor base who regard the involved companies as a sound investment opportunity in the companies of the future.

checkSURE and AIM Listed Companies

Keep up to date with your AIM listed companies from the UK and Ireland by purchasing a checkSURE report. Growing companies can have the same problems as any other business and a credit report from checkSURE can give you a broader perspective of a targeted company, before you deal with them.