A very good morning to you from London, here are the business headlines so far.

FTSE 100 is up very marginally this morning, with Ocado the biggest gainer. Shares in the grocery delivery service are up 3% today following a relatively upbeat trading statement yesterday, with the retailer appearing confident that improvements to the service and to the wider economy will be a boon to its revenue growth. Interestingly, it also expects to benefit from the passing of time – the company’s recent results have appeared particularly unflattering because of its year-on-year comparisons were against with Covid-boosted mega-baskets.

Elsewhere, high street retailer Next once again beat expectations, posting a full-year profit of £870mln that it attributed to a 30% boost in in-store sales.

Across the pond, adidas asked the US Trademark Office to reject an application for a Black Lives Matter (BLM) trademark. The German sportswear giant said the design would create confusion with its own three-stripe mark.

And in small caps, Galliford Try has been given a £75mln contract to create new build-to-rent residential buildings in North London. 249 new homes for private rent across three new blocks will be built as part of the contract.

That’s all for this morning, today’s report was written by Jai Singh and presented by me, Thomas Warner.

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Innovobot Resonance Ventures Managing Partner Zoya Shchupak joined Steve Darling from Proactive to share news about the company’s fund which is helping to fuel up and coming tech companies.

Shchupak telling Proactive more about the fund and the Deep Tech companies it looks at investing in.

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Usha Resources CEO Deepak Varshney joined Steve Darling from Proactive to share news the company has entered the hard rock Lithium space by acquiring 100% interest in 712 unpatented mining claims located in the Thunder Bay Mining Division of Ontario.

Varshney also told Proactive the White Willow Property is under explored with over 75 outcropping white pegmatites identified in limited exploration. According to the company, the LCT-pegmatite dike hosting the "Maple Leaf Showing" appears to be at least 50 metres wide and outcrops for approximately 350 metres along strike.

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Amaroq Minerals CEO & Founder Eldur Olafsson joins Natalie Stoberman from the Proactive studios to discuss the announcement of $49.5 million USD in debt financing to accelerate production and cash flow generation at its cornerstone Nalunaq gold development project. Olafsson also adds that the company is weighing a potential main market listing in Iceland.

Amaroq Minerals' principal business objectives are the identification, acquisition, exploration, and development of gold and strategic metal properties in Greenland. The company's principal asset is a 100% interest in the Nalunaq Project, an advanced exploration stage property with an exploitation license including the previously operating Nalunaq gold mine.

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Agronomics Ltd (AIM:ANIC) (OTC:AGNMF), Co-Founder presents at the Proactive One2One Investor Forum - March 23rd 2023.

Agronomics is the leading listed investment company in the field of cellular agriculture, with a portfolio of over 20 companies in cultivated meat, precision fermentation, and enabling technologies.

This encompasses the utilisation of tissue engineering, biotechnology or synthetic biology to produce proteins, fats and tissues, and most notably the production of cultivated meat. For example, meat, fish, dairy and leather can all be produced by these means. Agronomics has an established portfolio of venture stage companies in this exciting and rapidly advancing sector.

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Anglesey Mining PLC (AIM:AYM) CEO, Jonathan Battershill presents at the Proactive One2One Investor Forum.

Anglesey Mining PLC is engaged in exploring and developing its Parys Mountain Project in North Wales which hosts a significant polymetallic zinc, copper, lead, silver and gold deposit.

The deposit has a head frame, a 300-metre deep production shaft, planning permission for operations and freehold ownership of the minerals and land.

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Destiny Pharma PLC (AIM:DEST) (OTC:DTTYF) CEO, Neil Clark presents at the Proactive One2One Investor Forum.

Destiny Pharma PLC is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the development of novel medicines that can prevent life-threatening infections.

Its pipeline has novel microbiome-based biotherapeutics and XF drug clinical assets including NTCD-M3, a Phase 3 ready treatment for the prevention of C. difficile infection (CDI) recurrence, which is the leading cause of hospital-acquired infection in the US.

Destiny is also advancing XF-73 nasal gel, which has recently completed a positive Phase 2b clinical trial targeting the prevention of post-surgical staphylococcal hospital infections including MRSA.

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Essentially Group PLC (AQSE:ESSN) Managing Director and CEO Raja Abuljebain speaks to Proactive about his ambitions for the healthy food and beverage company, less than a fortnight on from its AQSE listing.

Raja Abuljebain reveals more about his long-term plans, saying that he wants to see the company's beverages "on every table."

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Digitalbox PLC (AIM:DBOX) CEO James Carter speaks to Proactive following the release of final results for 2022, that he describes as a "mixed bag" of a year for the digital media business.

He also gives his take on wider trends affecting the global advertising market and looks ahead to what investors can expect from the company during 2023.

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Phunware CEO Russ Buyse joins Natalie Stoberman from the Proactive studios to share the company's full 2022 financial results, which include a drive of total revenue up 105 percent in 2022.

Phunware is the only fully integrated enterprise cloud platform for mobile that provides companies the products, solutions, data and services necessary to engage, manage and monetize their mobile application portfolios and audiences globally at scale. Phunware’s Software Development Kits include location-based services, mobile engagement, content management, messaging, advertising, loyalty (PhunCoin & PhunToken) and analytics, as well as a mobile application framework of pre-integrated iOS and Android software modules for building in-house or channel-based mobile application and vertical solutions.

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