21-22 June this year the WSE organizes The Second Roadshow promoting the NewConnect (NC) market in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia. The meetings will represent an interesting opportunity for the representatives of small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) to learn about the WSE offer and to make their first step towards a debut on NewConnect.
Growth and financing opportunities offered by NewConnect are a source of significant competitive advantage for the businesses. This fact is more and more appreciated by the foreign issuers that show growing interest in listing on NewConnect. The WSE alternative equity market is highly popular amongst the Czech and Slovak businessmen thanks to, among others, the first Czech companies listed on NC i.e. Photon Energy a.s. and BGS Energy a.s. Both companies generate electricity from renewable sources of energy using state-of-the-art technologies and processes. The innovativeness of their business profile makes them perfect fit to the companies listed on NewConnect.
Further to numerous queries of potential issuers, 21-22 June this year the WSE organizes The Second Roadshow promoting the NewConnect market in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia. The objective of this project is to present NewConnect to potential issuers and show practical aspects of listing Czech and Slovak companies on the WSE alternative market. Experience will be shared by the representatives of the Warsaw Stock Exchange, NewConnect Authorised Advisers (CMS Corporate Management Services, Inwestexpert Corporate Finance, Acadia), WSE-listed companies (Photon Energy a.s., BGS Energy a.s., Asseco Central Europe), local financial advisers (PricewaterhouseCoopers, Accace), companies contemplating listing on the NewConnect market (Euro-Vat, Invia.cz), VC/PE funds and Exchange Members (MCI Management, Cyrrus).
The Warsaw Stock Exchange is the largest bourse in the Central- and South-Eastern Europe in terms of equity trading value (17.5 billion euro in January-April this year) and market capitalization (120.5 billion euro) Data of the Federation of European Stock Exchanges (FESE), April 2010.. In terms of the number and value of IPOs (Initial Public Offering), the WSE is in the lead of European stock exchanges (according to findings of IPO Watch Europe survey carried out by PricewaterhouseCoopers).