The Times: “There were fewer floats but the ones that got away did very well” (28.12.15)
In a world still wary after the financial crisis, nerves about the potential to sink or swim keep the number of initial public offerings down in 2015Fishing tackle retailers, an eastern European budget airline and a challenger bank are not natural bedfellows, but when it came to floating on the London markets this year, they were part of an eclectic and exclusive club.Only 90 companies listed on the London Stock Exchange this year, two thirds of them on the main market, 30 on the junior Alternative Investment Market — considerably fewer than the 137 IPOs in 2014 and 103 the year before that.
