MILAN (AIMnews.it) – The total value exchanged during the week was € 47.7 million; 38 positive shares with an average of + 4.37%. The FTSE AIM Italy scored +1.24%. The FTSE Italia PIR PMI All posted a performance of +1.24%. The 5 best performances of the week: Portobello: 34.93% (CMG Euro 160.281) Bio-on: 20.89% (CMG Euro 5.701.687) Sostravel.com: 15.00% (CMG Euro 9.625) Grifal: 8, 95% (CMG Euro 298,868) FOPE: 7.81% (CMG Euro 34.970) Chemical Sector Performance: 20.9% (CMG Euro 5.701.687) Telecommunications: 3.3% (CMG Euro 35.622) Fashion and Luxury: 2, 2% (CMG Euro 15,223) Average: 1.5% (CMG Euro 27.650) Services: 1.4% (CMG Euro 31.683) Healthcare: 0.1% (CMG Euro 44.243) Food: -0.1% (CMG Euro 33.023) Finance: -0.4% (CMG Euro 67.838) Industry: -0.7% (CMG Euro 57.353) Renewable Energy and Energy: -1.8% (CMG Euro 21.461) Technology: -2.0% (CMG Euro 25.762) * Sector classification by IR TOP Osservatorio (www.pmicapital.it) The main News of the week Lugano IR Top Investor Day, meeting on September 21st The meeting ‘Lugano IR Top Investor Day’ is back: the goal of the event, conceived by IR Top Consulting and now in its ninth edition, is to facilitate the meeting between Small and Mid Cap businesses, AIM of the Italian Stock Exchange and the Swiss financial community. The Investor Day, with the support of Borsa Italiana, will be held on September 21st, starting at 8.30am, at the Hotel Splendide Royal, Lugano. The following AIM Italia companies will be participating: Bomi Group (Marco Ruini – CEO), Elettra Investimenti (Fabio Massimo Bombacci – President and CEO), ICF Group (Guido Cami – CEO), Notorious Pictures (Guglielmo Marchetti – President and CEO), Kolinpharma ( Emanuele Lusenti – CEO), Equita Group (Andrea Vismara – CEO), FOPE (Diego Nardin – CEO), Mailup (Nazareno Gorni – CEO), Costamp Group (Marco Corti – President and CEO), Portobello (Roberto Panfili – COO), Digitouch (Simone Ranucci Brandimarte – Chairman), Blue Financial Communication (Denis Masetti – Chairman). Main Sponsor: Invest Italy SIM (Gruppo Invest Banca) and Copernicus AM. Technical Partner: PMI Capital. During the day, listed companies will be available for One To One and Group meetings. There will be a limited number available for the event and registration is compulsory: Tel. +390245473884 – ir@irtop.com Fope doubles Ebitda and Net Profit in the first half of 2018 FOPE is a historical Italian goldsmith company founded in Vicenza in 1929, a leading player in the field of high quality jewelry. Sales and margins are growing for Fope. Today, the Board of Directors have taken note of the pre-closing data for the half-yearly financial report, which shows an annual increase in revenues of 13.3% to 15.28 million. Ebitda amounts to 3.18 million euros, a year earlier it was 1.76 million euros; Ebit also increased, reaching 2.65 million euros, compared to 1.36 million in the first half of 2017. The pre-tax profit amounted to 2.63 million euros (1.23 million 1H2017), while Net profit rises to 1.90 million compared to 0.80 million a year earlier. The Net Financial Position is € 2.88 million, up compared to € 1.17 million on December 31st, the same trend for Net Equity, which rose to € 13.13 million, from € 11.92 million at the end of 2017. “The results for the first six months – commented Diego Nardin, CEO of FOPE – confirm the positive outlook for the year. The figure confirms the initial budget expectations and the path of the sales growth that has always been supported by important developments of foreign markets (in particular Europe and America) and by the domestic market which consolidates and increases the position. The new collections presented at the beginning of the year have had an excellent response from the market, and which has contributed to the achievement of the positive commercial result registered in the early months of the year.” New agreement for Notorious Pictures with Sky Notorious Pictures, an independent company established in July 2012 and based in Rome, operates in the production, acquisition and marketing of film rights (full rights) through all distribution channels (cinema, home video, paid TV and free TV, new media). Notorious Pictures has signed a new agreement with Sky Italia for the exclusive concession of the rights and TV distribution of 22 film works, in part titles of the library, and partly ‘Direct to Video’. The agreement, worth € 1.6 million, has a multi-year variable duration per single film work. “The business side of film products with a priority towards the exploitation of television – explains Guglielmo Marchetti, Chairman and CEO of the Company – has become increasingly strategic for Notorious Pictures and has an important part in our increasingly significant revenue mix. The agreement with Sky further strengthens the company’s ability to select and offer to companies of primary importance, products of great artistic value and of great interest for television audiences.” Clabo: a 1.2 million dollar order from Boar’s Head Clabo, heir to an industrial tradition founded in 1958 and an international leader in the furniture sector for catering, is specialised in the production and marketing of professional display cases for ice cream parlors, confectioners, bars, coffee shops as well as, thanks to the acquisition of HMC, for convenience and variety stores. Howard McCray, a subsidiary of Clabo, has signed an agreement to supply 250 showcases for food display with the US restaurant chain Boar’s Head. Howard McCray closed the first half with revenues up 16% over the same period of 2017 and orders up 24%. “HMC is getting exciting results from the economic and management aspect- comments Pierluigi Bocchini, President of Clabo -. We are extremely satisfied with the activities of the local management and expect even more sustained growth in the second half of the year. On September 14th, we will approve the six-month group accounts that we have already announced are growing both in terms of revenues and profitability. It’s only a pity that the market does not seem to value the results we are achieving at an industrial and financial level.” Expert System: robotics in AI is the future for Forrester Expert System, a leader in the cognitive computing and text analytics market, offering the most innovative artificial intelligence solutions for process automation and information management. The partnership between Expert System and Blue Prism has been consolidated. The experimental collaboration started a year ago, in fact, and has found a new supporter in Forrester, which includes Expert System in the latest report dedicated to the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Robotic Process Automation (RPA). “Finally, thanks to artificial intelligence, RPA is starting to demonstrate its true potential: supporting decision-making processes and not only increasing operational efficiency” – comments Stefano Spaggiari, founder and CEO of Expert System. “We are very satisfied with both the cutting-edge work we are pursuing, which is rewarding our vision in a sector that today stands out for its extraordinary exponential growth, and with the interest and the strong confirmation that we are registering in the market thanks to successful implementations, particularly in the insurance sector.” Zephyro: the Consip MIES 2 agreement is in force Zephyro is a leading Italian operator in the energy efficiency sector and in the supply of integrated energy management solutions for complex structures, in Italy and abroad. Since September 3rd, 2018 the Consip MIES 2 (Integrated Maintenance Energy Health) agreement is in force. This entrusts Zephyro with Integrated Technology Multiservice activities, including the supply of thermal and electrical energy to the buildings used by the Public Administrations of Lombardy and Piedmont (included in the ordinary Lot 2). The total value of the agreement is about Euro 200 million, for contracts lasting 5 to 7 years. THE AIM COMPANIES: 4AIM SICAF: 0,00% Abitare In: -3,76% Agatos: -12,69% Alfio Bardolla Training Group: -6,85% Alkemy: -2,04% Alp.I: 0,63% Ambromobiliare: 2,84% Archimede: 0,00% Askoll EVA: 4,10% Assiteca: 1,15% axélero: sosp. BioDue: 3,37% Bio-on: 20,89% Blue Financial Communication: 0,88% Bomi Italia: 1,06% Caleido Group: 1,56% Capital For Progress 2: 0,00% Casta Diva Group: -7,07% CdR Advance Capital: 0,00% Cellularline: -0,60% CFT: 0,52% Clabo: 1,67% Costamp Group: -4,42% Cover 50: 2,33% Culti Milano: -2,15% DBA Group: -1,11% DHH: -0,84% Digital Magics: -7,32% Digital360: 0,00% DigiTouch: -1,96% Ecosuntek: 5,62% Elettra Investimenti: -0,20% Energica Motor Company: -2,15% Energy Lab: sosp. Enertronica: -3,88% EPS Equita PEP 2: -0,52% Equita Group: 1,12% Esautomotion: -1,23% Expert System: 3,06% Fervi: 2,10% Finlogic: 0,00% Fintel Energia Group: -2,34% First Capital: 0,00% FOPE: 7,81% Frendy Energy: 1,94% Gabelli Value For Italy: 0,00% Gambero Rosso: -4,89% Gel: -3,43% Giorgio Fedon & Figli: 2,27% GO Internet: -0,76% GPI: -2,39% Grifal: 8,95% Gruppo Green Power: 0,49% Health Italia: -1,12% H-FARM: -4,30% Icf Group: -2,78% IdeaMI: 0,00% Illa: -2,78% Imvest: 0,00% Industrial Stars of Italy 3: 0,21% Iniziative Bresciane: -0,99% Innova Italy 1: -0,98% Innovatec: -3,36% Intred: 7,27% Italia Independent Group: 0,53% Italian Wine Brands: 0,81% Ki Group: 0,00% Kolinpharma: 0,11% Leone Film Group: -6,67% Life Care Capital: -0,08% Longino & Cardenal: -1,89% Lucisano Media Group: -4,15% MailUp: -2,65% Masi Agricola: -0,23% Mondo TV France: 2,28% Mondo TV Suisse: -0,95% Monnalisa: -1,84% Neodecortech: -5,71% Net Insurance: 6,99% Neurosoft: -6,67% Notorious Pictures: 6,99% Orsero: 0,86% Pharmanutra: -0,65% Piteco: -1,30% PLT Energia: -1,80% Poligrafici Printing: 0,00% Portale Sardegna: 0,00% Portobello: 34,93% Prismi: -7,45% Renergetica: -3,33% Rosetti Marino: 0,00% S.M.R.E.: -1,27% Safe Bag: 5,67% Sciuker Frames: 4,38% SCM SIM: -5,81% SG Company: 1,76% SIT: -5,42% SITI B&T Group: -0,95% Softec: -1,01% Somec: -1,38% Sostravel.com: 15,00% Spactiv: -0,41% Spaxs: 0,10% Sprintitaly: -0,41% Telesia: 2,69% TheSpac: 1,24% TPS: -2,81% Vei 1: -0,63% Vetrya: -1,05% Vimi Fasteners: -2,95% Visibilia Editore: -1,96% WIIT: -2,27% WM Capital: -0,42% Zephyro: -0,49%