Plenty of new arrivals on AIM in December including a fascinating Latin American cacao producer

2014 finished in style for AIM with 15 new Admissions resulting in 1,104 companies on the junior market at the end of December.

Of the 15 new admissions there were 2 movers from the main market.

AIMsearch inheritance tax tracking tool revels that of the 15 new admissions 11 qualify for inheritance tax planning purposes.

The new comers to AIM included the usual excellent mix of early stage and better established businesses the largest of which is Market Tech Holdings Ltd (AIM:MKT) (http://www.market-tech.com).

With a market capitalisation of £855m Guernsey registered Market Tech combines the iconic real estate assets of Camden Market, in the London Borough of Camden and an early-stage e-commerce business. In addition to the eleven acres of real estate assets in Camden the Group is developing an e-commerce business to create an online global market place and multi-channel offering. On Admission they raised £100m gross of new money (£93.6m net) at 200p per share. With the share price currently standing at 228p the float has clearly been well received

AIM said goodbye to 10 companies of which 2 were China based Groups. AIMsearch reveals that 3 of the leavers didn’t qualify for inheritance tax purposes.

We review below some of the more interesting arrivals on AIM.