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AIM-listed firm Ince Group's share price has dropped 60% since the start of the year, as it looks to raise £12 million in a new share placing.

The firm's share price has nosedived again, crashing to 45.6p on Wednesday morning (10am). The firm's share price began tanking at the start of January, plunging 25% from 115.5p to a then-all-time low of 86p. 

The FTSE AIM All-Share Index and the share price of the U.K.'s biggest listed firm, DWF, have on the other hand steadily improved since January 6.

The contraction comes as Ince Group looks to raise up to £12 million by way of an 'accelerated bookbuild' via a conditional placing of new ordinary shares, according to a London Stock Exchange communication. 

An accelerated bookbuild, according to one capital markets partner, is a process whereby a company looks to offer new shares within a very short period, typically to finance an acquisition or because it needs emergency financing. 

According to the stock exchange RNS, the firm is also seeking shareholder approval to allot new ordinary shares and equity securities for cash on "a non-preemptive basis", and approval to an increase in the number of options over ordinary shares which can be granted under the company's share scheme.

The news comes less than two months after Ince announced its half year results which showed soaring revenues that had more than doubled in the six months to September 30, 2019, hitting £45.3 million. At the time, firm CEO Adrian Biles said he expected the firm's annualised revenue to hit £100 million by March 31, 2020.

Ince declined to comment.