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Alternative financing options attract international investors
Australian public companies are increasingly attracting international investment from US and European companies through creative methods of financing, says Australia’s biotechnology industry organisation, AusBiotech. >more
Phylogica to Pursue Antimicrobial Peptide Discovery Through Licensing Agreement with MedImmune
PERTH, AUSTRALIA -- Phylogica Ltd (ASX: PYC, XETRA: PH7), a public Australian drug discovery company, announced today that they have entered into an agreement with MedImmune to evaluate Phylogica’s proprietary Phylomer® peptide library for novel antimicrobial peptides. >more
EcoQuest signs Australian swimming great to launch Little Takas
Australian swimming great Elka Whalan (nee Graham) has been signed up to launch our environmentally friendly Little Takas disposable nappy range. >more
Special Phages Holdings Feature in The Australian
In a laboratory in a nondescript industrial building in Sydney, Sandra Morales pulls a small tray of plastic vials from a refrigerator. >more
Special Phages Holdings featured on Sunday Sunrise
Special Phage Holdings (“SPH”) is an innovative biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel antibacterials in response to the growing threat from antibiotic resistant “super bugs” such as MRSA (Golden Staph). here is the story Sunday sunrise conducted on the company. >more
BRW - What Venture Capitalists Want
Entrepreneurs are from mars and venture capitalists are from Venus. So how on Earth do the two team up? >more
Vogue Management Featured on Board Room Radio
Vogue Management Featured on Board Room Radio >more
ECO Quest Featured on Board Room Radio
ECO Quest Featured on Board Room Radio >more
Commissioners Gold Featured on Board Room Radio
Commissioners Gold Featured on Board Room Radio >more
Cloncurry Metals Featured on Board Room Radio
Cloncurry Metals Featured on Board Room Radio >more
EasyFood - EASYFOOD SUSTAINS JESSICA WATSON ON HER EPIC VOYAGE
Teenage adventurer Jessica Watson is the World’s youngest ever female to sail non-stop and unassisted around the world solo and enjoyed EasyFood’s delicious readymade meal products throughout her world record attempt. >more
Qbiotics - QBiotics closes $10m capital raising in 26 days
QBiotics Limited, a QLD based life-sciences company, has successfully raised $10m through an Offer Information Statement. The offer opened on the 27th May and closed over-subscribed on the 21st June 2010. >more
Atlantic Healthcare - Renowned expert Professor Derek Jewell to chair Atlantic Healthcare’s European faculty of leading IBD specialists
Professor Jewell, of Oxford University and John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, is one of Europe’s leading experts in the treatment of IBD and has been Chairman of the International Organisation for the Study of IBD and is a past-President of the British Society of Gastroenterology. >more
KFSU - KFSU Finalist in the ATS Member of the Year Awards
Three KFSU board members will travel to Brisbane for the 2010 Australian Technology Showcase Business Development Summit. >more
MRS Limited - MRS assemble team of International Forensic Auditors
MRS is a quality assured ISO 9001 company focused on providing project resources to various companies throughout the world. A >more
MyGuestlist - MyGuestList launch iPad application and record profitable Proof of Concept
MyGuestList, Australia’s first, automated guestlist management and hospitality CRM solution is entering a new phase with the launch of its iPad Application and by recording a Profitable Proof of Concept. >more
Gratuk - Gratuk to short cut time to market for a range of new animal pharmaceuticals
It is common for a new drug to be 10 years in development and cost many $100 millions. However, the Gratuk team have worked with the technology for the past 10 years and now know precisely what they have to do. >more
EasyFood - EasyFood develops products for major international diet company WeightWatchers
EasyFood Limited is pleased to announce that the Company has been given permission by "WeightWatchers" to release information regarding developments between the two companies. >more
EasyFood - Healthy meals now in vending machines
EasyFood Limited has commenced the development of a range of healthy meal options for sale in vending machines. The EasyFood Ready Meal has an un-refrigerated shelf life of 2 years and is ideal for the vending machine Industry. >more
QBIOTICS - As featured on Channel 7's Sunday night
AS FEATURED ON CHANNEL 7'S SUNDAY NIGHT - 13th June 2010 >more
Australian discovered anti-cancer drug EBC-46 raising $10m to fund human trials
QBiotics Limited, an Australian biotech company based in Yungaburra, North Queensland, continues to pursue the multi-billion dollar human anti-cancer market, following the success of its revolutionary anti-cancer drug EBC-46 in animals. >more
Atlantic Healthcare - Renowned expert Professor Derek Jewell to chair Atlantic Healthcare’s European faculty of leading IBD specialists
Professor Jewell, of Oxford University and John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, is one of Europe's leading experts in the treatment of IBD and has been Chairman of the International Organisation for the Study of IBD and is a past-President of the British Society of Gastroenterology. >more
Gratuk Technologies Featured on Board Room Radio
Gratuk Technologies Featured on Board Room Radio >more
Wireless Nation Featured on Board Room Radio
Wireless Nation Featured on Board Room Radio >more
Navra Invest Featured on Board Room Radio
Navra Invest Featured on Board Room Radio >more
Atlantic Healthcare - Production commencing for the use of Alicaforsen in named patients
Atlantic Healthcare’s first drug – alicaforsen – a breakthrough treatment for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, is about to go into production ahead of launch. >more
Ecobiotics featured on Sunrise, Seven Network
Simon Reeve reports on how EBC-46 discovered and the amazing results it has achieved in animals. >more
How Wholesale Investor is addressing a market failure
To understand the role we play in the business community, and how we are addressing inefficiencies and failures in the Venture Capital space >more
Acquisition of Sustainable Energy Australasia by ASX listed Company
Shell Villages and Resorts Limited, an ASX listed Public Company (ASX code SVC), is to acquire Sustainable Energy Australasia Limited (SEA) together with SEA's wholly owned subsidiary Sustainable Australasia USA LLC which houses SEA's oil and gas assets in the USA. >more
Camco Group Featured on Board Room Radio
Camco Group Featured on Board Room Radio >more
Rentmaster Featured on Board Room Radio
Rentmaster Featured on Board Room Radio >more
Green Resources Group Featured on Board Room Radio
Green Resources Group Featured on Board Room Radio >more
Tailored Franchise Holdings Featured on Board Room Radio
Tailored Franchise Holdings Featured on Board Room Radio >more
Primewest Management Featured on Board Room Radio
Primewest Management Featured on Board Room Radio >more
KFSU Featured on Board Room Radio
KFSU Featured on Board Room Radio >more
Special Invitation to Investor Presentations for Atlantic Healthcare
Special Invitation to Investor Presentations for Atlantic Healthcare >more
Atlantic Healthcare Featured on Board Room Radio
Atlantic Healthcare Featured on Board Room Radio >more
Ecobiotics Featured on Board Room Radio and A Current Affair
Ecobiotics Featured on Board Room Radio and A Current Affair >more
BRW - Angels meet their match
Why should Wholesale Investor succeed, when so many other services of a similar nature have failed before it? And does it matter if it does? >more
Blue Fusion Featured on Board Room Radio
Blue Fusion Featured on Board Room Radio >more
Capital Raising Back on the Agenda for Australian Business Owners
Capital Raising is back on the agenda for entrepreneurs with over 800 people registering to attend this Saturdays Capital Raising Conference in Sydney. >more
Tech sector veterans Domenic Carosa and Danny Wallis to raise $3 million for internet fund ahead of IPO
Tech sector veterans Domenic Carosa, Danny Wallis and Tony Stephen will raise more than $3 million for acquisitions through their Future Capital Development Fund, before a planned listing on the Australian Securities Exchange later this year. >more
Sydney Event - Wholesale Investor Opportunity and Networking Event
The "Wholesale Investor Opportunity and Networking Evening" provides you with a rare opportunity to meet with the CEO's of companies featured in Wholesale Investor, along with the opportunity to network with the other high net worth investors and fund managers who are active in the market place >more
Possible cancer cure found in blushwood shrub
CANCER patients are offering themselves as human guinea pigs as researchers investigate a possible cure for cancer found in north Queensland rainforests. >more
ASX IPO Workshop to provide guidance to small caps seeking to go to IPO
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in association with Wholesale Investor will be holding an IPO Workshop designed to introduce private small cap companies to the fundamentals of IPO (Initial Public Offering) planning from a financial, legal, fundraising and broking perspective. >more
Wholesale Investor feature in the BRW
This weeks BRW includes a Feature on Wholesale Investor. It is a great synopsis of the WI offering. >more
Phylogica cuts UK development deal
PHYLOGICA has cut its second significant partnership deal in a month, announcing yesterday it has reached an agreement with Cambridge-based peptide company Isogenica to further develop three of the Australian company’s lead anti-inflammatory candidates. >more
Phylogica cuts major Roche deal
While the terms of the deal have not been disclosed, Phylogica corporate development vice-president Dr Paul Watts told BTN the deal was a significant one for the Western Australian biotech junior, which might see the company earning substantial revenue within the year. >more
2010 a big year for low carbon cement
An Australian mining company says their Cape York kaolin project could be put on the world mining map, if demand takes off for a low carbon cement product. Minerals Corporation says kaolin clay from their Skardon River mine is being used in a cement replacement product they've co-created with a Sydney inventor. >more
Minerals Coporation Ltd secures $10US mil order
Minerals Corporation is pleased to announce a confirmed order for the supply of low carbon cement product for the 2010 year spread over regular part shipments during the year. This is our first confirmed major export order and it will operate under a letter of credit payment arrangement to assist the Company’s working capital. >more
First cancer drug from the Australian rainforest to enter human clinical trials (As seen on A Current Affair and Sunrise)
Queensland life science company EcoBiotics today announced that, following very promising results in treating inoperable tumors in horses and dogs, it was fast-tracking development of the company’s lead cancer drug, EBC-46, into human clinical trials. >more
First cancer drug from the Australian rainforest to enter human clinical trials (As seen on Sunday Night, A Current Affair and Sunrise)
Queensland life science company EcoBiotics today announced that, following very promising results in treating inoperable tumours in horses and dogs, it was fast-tracking development of the company’s lead cancer drug, EBC-46, into human clinical trials. >more
Zeep (Zero Emission Energy Plants) Australia Ltd Interview with the Finance News Network
VIDEO AND TRANSCRIPTION OF FINANCE NEWS NETWORK INTERVIEW WITH ZEEP PRESIDENT OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OPERATIONS, GRANT SCOTT >more
Australian Financial Review 11/08/09
Latest Wholesale Investor Opportunities in AFR. >more
Patties gets hungry
It is unusual for microcap investment universe to include companies with established household brand names; it may be inhabited by companies whose brands become well known later. Great companies such as Microsoft, our own MYOB or Cochlear were all once microcaps that went on to become large-cap companies. Generally, though, most microcaps – in terms of brand recognition – are a work in progress. >more
Focus - The future for Oil and Gas
With the current financial predicament and the drop in the oil price over the last 12 months, many oil and gas companies are having financial difficulties. The large companies are selling off small developments, the medium companies have over committed themselves on their cost basis and the small companies cannot get any more finance. >more
Duttondirect.com now ready to merge with international partner, founder says
Duttondirect.com, an online portal for luxury goods, is now ready to talk to an international merger partner that can help with its global expansion plans, founder James Dutton told this news service. Duttondirect.com is currently rolling out licenses for its technology globally, first in Milan, to be followed by Russia, Dubai, the UK and US, and a planned 119 more countries in the next five years, by which time Dutton believes Duttondirect.com could have turnover of AUD 250m (USD 201m). >more
FLIP SCREEN SOLVES PROMINENT HILL’S PIPELINE MATERIAL NEEDS
One of the award winning and innovative screening and recycling attachments manufactured by Flip Screen Australia Pty Ltd has enabled contractor B J Jarrod Pty Ltd to reuse material excavated from a water supply pipeline trench for the new Prominent Hill copper-gold mine in South Australia’s remote north to be re-used to ‘bed in’ the new pipeline. >more
Tim Trumper - Former PBL Media and ACP Magazines Commercial Director, Joins Wholesale Investor Advisory Board
Former PBL Media and ACP Magazines director Tim Trumper has become a shareholder and joined the advisory board of Wholesale Investor – a new digital & print publication that highlights exclusive investment opportunities and is currently reaching a database of over 4,000 high net worth and professional investors. >more
THE FUTURE OF CLEAN ENERGY- AUSTRALIA TO LEAD WITH CLEAN COAL PLANTS
Following recent announcements in the US, Australia has been selected to be one of four countries in the world joining the United States, Canada and China to commercialise clean coal technology. ZEEP (Zero Emission Energy Plants) is please to announce that a global licence agreement has been executed with Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (PWR) to build and operate gasification plants using PWR’s compact gasifier technology. >more
Heating your house from the ground
When we think of Geothermal technology, we usually think of large scale operations drilling thousands of meters underground to hot volcanic rocks. But what if there was a technology which allowed you to use the latent energy in the soil to heat anything from a small house to a large building. >more
Gain insights on the current private investment space by completing our 2 min survey...
Wholesale Investor is conducting an anonymous survey of the private / unlisted investment community in Australia. The survey is multiple choice and takes less than 2 minutes to complete. This is your opportunity to contribute to the results. Your answers will help gain visibility into the current investment landscape, attitudes, funds available, good sectors, bad sectors, and more. We will make these results available to you which will assist with your research and investment decisions. This information will also be made available to the financial media. >more
Wholesale Investor Edition 3 is now available
Subscribers should stay on the look out. Wholesale Edition will be arriving in your mailbox and on your desk shortly. If you cant wait... here is our publication online for you. >more
FLIP SCREEN BOOSTS ALBURY’S RECYCLING AND SAVES LAND FILL CAPACITY
Albury City Council has recently purchased an innovative Flip Screen screening and recycling attachment. The Council is using the Flip Screen at its Albury Waste Management Centre to screen bricks, concrete and timber out of their landfill operations. >more
Article in the Aviation section of The Australian - Friday 7th Nov 2008
A SLEEK, futuristic machine that could easily take a starring role in the latest James Bond blockbuster is spearheading an Australian push to change the way people view helicopters. Wieland Helicopter Technologies has been working since 2003 on coaxial rotor technology acquired from the US military, and now has a single-seat prototype ready to showcase its advantages. >more
Surfers group has wind tunnel vision
THE Gold Coast has landed itself another high-flying tourist attraction with the Southern Hemisphere's first vertical wind tunnel set to open smack in the heart of Surfers Paradise. >more
Wholesale Investor launch
As the public markets continue to falter, IPO's have all but ceased, and small cap ASX listed companies struggle to maintain their share price and liquidity. Investor money is seeking alternative investment options that represent more stability and strong growth for the future. This month, a new magazine and website called Wholesale Investor has been launched in Australia. Wholesale Investor aims to be a communication portal between investors seeking access to private and unlisted opportunities and companies who seek to raise capital or a trade sale. >more
