Blackthorn Focus' Founder David O'Hara appears again as a contributor in this month's aimZine, the online magazine for the AIM community.

Blackthorn Focus is proud to announce the launch of GROWTHfocus and INCOMEfocus, two new indices of shares listed on the Alternative Investment Market.

Using data supplied by Sharelock Holmes, Blackthorn Focus has established these two new indices to track the performance of AIM's growth companies.

GROWTHfocus is an index of the twenty largest companies listed on the Alternative Investment Market that have grown revenues year-on-year for the last five years.

INCOMEfocus tracks the share price progression of the twenty largest companies on AIM that have increased their dividends in each of the last five years.

"I am delighted with the launch of GROWTHfocus and INCOMEfocus" said David O'Hara, Founder of Blackthorn Focus. "The last two years have been an exceptionally difficult time for the UK's smallcap financial markets. Companies have struggled to get their achievements recognised by the investment community, even when they have been demonstrating continued success."

"The Alternative Investment Market is home to some incredibly successful small companies" Mr O'Hara added. "The launch of GROWTHfocus and INCOMEfocus will help bring these companies to the fore by recognising their progress and achievements."

GROWTHfocus and INCOMEfocus comprise two diverse groups of companies.

David O'Hara added:

Today, aimZine, the online magazine for the AIM community, has published an article by David O'Hara, Founder of Blackthorn Focus. This article contained a collection of ideas on how AIM could change for the better.

"Plenty of people with an interest in the AIM market have their own ideas on what they would like to see being done differently. Unfortunately, these changes would frequently be to the detriment of other participants — such as investors, advisors or the companies themselves." said Mr O'Hara.

Stockopedia, the online financial community, has today published a syndicated copy of the Blackthorn Focus publication Solution for Smallcap Markets.

"I am delighted Stockopedia have re-published Solutions for Smallcap Markets on their site" said David O'Hara, Founder of Blackthorn Focus.