Month: December 2020

CHICAGO, Dec. 16, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Amlan International, the animal health business of Oil-Dri Corporation of America and a global leader in natural feed additives that improve the intestinal health and efficiency of poultry and livestock, is proud to name Heath Wessels the Director of Sales for North America. Wessels’ appointment to the newly established role affirms Amlan’s commitment to improving the quality of the global food supply by leveraging its proprietary mineral technology. In the new position, Wessels will work to build Amlan’s business presence in the United States and Canada and develop a strategy that ensures long-term customer value and profitability.“Amlan is investing to further build a talented team of industry professionals to offer our extensively researched mineral-based feed...

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — SuRo Capital Corp. (“SuRo Capital” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: SSSS) today announced the Company’s Board of Directors has declared a dividend in the amount of $0.22 per share payable on January 15, 2021 to the Company’s stockholders of record as of the close of business on December 30, 2020. The dividend will be paid in cash.“We are pleased to announce our Board of Directors has declared a dividend in the amount of $0.22 per share,” said Mark Klein, President and Chief Executive Officer of SuRo Capital. “This dividend is driven by continued monetizations in SuRo Capital’s public securities, specifically the sale of unrestricted shares of Palantir Technologies Inc. following the direct listing on September 30, 2020.”SuRo Capital’s $0.22 per share dividend payable on January 15, 2021,...

OAKDALE, Calif., Dec. 16, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — On December 15, 2020, Lynn Reeves Dickerson accepted her appointment to the Board of Directors of Oak Valley Bancorp (the “Company”) [NASDAQ: OVLY] and its wholly-owned subsidiary Oak Valley Community Bank (the “Bank”), effective January 5, 2021.Since 2009, Dickerson has been the CEO of the Gallo Center for the Arts. Her decade-long tenure was marked with operational excellence and tremendous community support.Prior to joining the Gallo Center, Dickerson had a successful 29-year career in the newspaper industry; serving as Publisher & President of The Modesto Bee from 2000-2006 and subsequently as Vice President of Operations for The McClatchy Company, the parent company of The Modesto Bee. As a corporate officer at McClatchy, she oversaw 11 of their 30 newspapers throughout the...

TORONTO, Dec. 16, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Troilus Gold Corp. (TSX: TLG; OTCQB: CHXMF) (“Troilus” or the “Company”), reports, in accordance with the policies of the Toronto Stock Exchange, that the nominees listed in the Management Information Circular dated November 9, 2020 for the Annual General & Special Meeting of Shareholders of the Company (the “Meeting”) were elected as directors of the Company. Over 61% of all of the issued and outstanding shares of the Company were represented at the Meeting.Detailed results of the vote for the election of directors held at the Meeting on December 16, 2020 in Toronto, Ontario are set out below.The shareholders approved the election as directors of the persons listed below, based on the following vote.Shareholders at the annual meeting also approved the appointment of the Company’s...

TORONTO, Dec. 16, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Canadian Apartment Properties Real Estate Investment Trust (“CAPREIT”) (TSX – CAR.UN) announced today its December 2020 monthly distribution in the amount of $0.11500 per Unit (or $1.38 on an annualized basis). The December distribution will be payable on January 15, 2021 to Unitholders of record on December 31, 2020.To encourage participation and reward our loyal Unitholders, investors registered in our Distribution Reinvestment Plan will continue to receive an additional amount equal to 5% of their distributions paid in the form of additional Units.As Canada’s largest publicly-traded provider of quality rental housing, CAPREIT currently owns or has interests in approximately 67,400 residential apartment suites, townhomes and manufactured housing community sites well-located across Canada,...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 16, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Pretium Resources Inc. (TSX/NYSE: PVG) (“Pretivm” or the “Company”) announces the results of the 2020 regional grassroots exploration program, including a discovery at the Hanging Glacier Zone, and plans for the Company’s 2021 exploration programs.The 2020 regional grassroots exploration program included 25,350 meters of diamond drilling completed in four mineralized zones across the 1,200-square kilometer property that surrounds the Brucejack Mine. The highlight from the program was the discovery of epithermal-style gold mineralization in the Hanging Glacier Zone, located four kilometers northwest from the Brucejack Mine. This new zone of gold mineralization demonstrates the district-scale potential at Brucejack. See Table 1 below for assays from the 2020 program.For...

JERSEY CITY, N.J., Dec. 16, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — SCYNEXIS, Inc. (Nasdaq:SCYX) today announced that it has commenced an underwritten public offering of shares of its common stock and warrants to purchase shares of its common stock, including pre-funded warrants to purchase common stock in lieu of common stock for certain purchasers. All of the shares of common stock and warrants in the offering will be sold by SCYNEXIS. The offering is subject to market conditions, and there can be no assurance as to whether or when the offering may be completed or as to the actual size or terms of the offering.Guggenheim Securities, LLC and Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. are serving as joint book-running managers for the offering. National Securities Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of National Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: NHLD) is serving as...

LONDON, Dec. 16, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Johnson Matthey (JM), a global leader in sustainable technologies, is a partner of the INITIATE (Innovative industrial transformation of the steel and chemical industries of Europe) project consortium. The consortium will investigate the potential of a novel synergetic and circular process that transforms residual carbon-rich gas from the steel sector into resources for high purity urea.The European Union has awarded 21 M€ to enable the demonstration of such an industrial symbiosis concept between the steel and chemical industries.To reach EU climate targets, the steel and iron production sectors are looking to decrease their CO2 emissions by up to 90% by 2050. INITIATE will demonstrate how residual carbon-rich gases, such as blast furnace gas and basic oxygen furnace gas, from the steel...