Aquis Stock Exchange Weekly Highlights 06.10.25

Cooks Coffee Company Limited provided a half-year trading update on the performance of its Esquires branded franchised stores, for the 26 weeks ended 28 September 2025. The Company highlighted that systemwide store sales in the UK and Ireland increased by 26.9%, record weekly sales of £870,000 and opened 13 new stores. Read more

Wishbone Gold Plc announced that it has raised £4m via a placing. The Company says the gross proceeds will enable further expansion of the exploration at Red Setter Gold Dome site during the current year. Read more

IntelliAM AI Plc has been awarded a substantially expanded contract with Hovis, worth nine times the original agreement, following a successful initial contract delivering reliability consultancy services across three key sites.

Tom Clayton, CEO, said: “This expanded contract represents a significant milestone for IntelliAM, validating the commercial value of our AI-driven solutions. We are proud to be deepening our relationship with Hovis and to be helping them lead the way in transforming UK manufacturing productivity.” Read more

KR1 plc announced its half year results for the six months ended 30 June 2025 (HY25). The Company highlighted an income of £2.9m from Digital Assets and £2.9m from staking activities. Read more

Shepherd Neame Ltd announced its results for the 52 weeks ended 28 June 2025, highlighting revenue of £164.3m, statutory profit before tax of £6.3m, and total retail like-for-like sales increased by 4.4%.

Jonathan Neame, CEO, said: “Shepherd Neame is a strong business with fabulous pubs and well recognised brands. The Company has delivered a solid performance against a challenging backdrop for the sector with consistent outperformance of the market in pub trading, whilst absorbing further cost inflation, in particular in labour and logistics.” Read more

B HODL PLC announced the launch of its UK Bitcoin Ecosystem Grant and Funding Initiative as set out in its Admission Document. B HODL intends to allocate up to 1% of capital raised and future fund returns to UK-based Bitcoin initiatives, to help advance Bitcoin education, policy and technical development in the UK. Read more

B HODL PLC purchased an additional 10 Bitcoin; this brings its total holding to 122 Bitcoin. Read more