K3 Business Technology Group PLC Acquisition of Willow Starcom (8589K)
April 21 2015 - 8:00AM
UK Regulatory
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RNS Number : 8589K
K3 Business Technology Group PLC
21 April 2015
AIM: KBT
K3 Business Technology Group
("K3" or "the Group")
Acquisition
K3, IT solutions supplier to the retail, manufacturing and
distributions sectors, is pleased to announce the acquisition of
Willow Starcom Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Access
Intelligence Plc, for a total consideration of GBP1.75 million in
cash, to be funded from the Group's existing banking resources. The
acquisition, agreed on a debt free/cash free basis, will be
earnings enhancing in the first full year of ownership.
Established in 1990 and based in Greater Manchester, Willow
Starcom provides remotely managed, on-premise and cloud-hosted IT
support solutions together with related hardware, software support
and consultancy. It has particular expertise in Microsoft products
and is a Microsoft Hosting Partner. Other key areas of expertise
are data backup solutions, data storage solutions, remote access
solutions and virtualisation. Willow Starcom operates in two data
centres in the Manchester area and has a customer base of
approximately 240 customers cross a variety of sectors.
For the financial year ended 30 November 2014, the company
generated revenue of GBP2.66 million, EBITDA of GBP0.37 million and
profit before tax of GBP0.1 million. Net assets at 30 November 2014
stood at GBP0.9 million.
Willow Starcom is a highly complementary acquisition for K3 and
will be readily integrated at limited cost within K3's existing
hosting and managed services activities. In particular, it broadens
K3's offering in that area, creating additional opportunities for
K3 to grow its hosting and managed services revenues.
K3's CEO, David Bolton, said:
"Willow Starcom is a well-established business which generates a
high proportion of recurring revenues. It is highly complementary
to K3's existing hosting and managed services activities and the
business can be very readily integrated. The addition of Willow
Starcom will broaden our existing offering within hosting and
managed services and brings additional expertise and skills to our
team.
We believe that there is significant potential to expand our
hosting and managed services activities and this acquisition is
part of our strategy to realise that growth opportunity."
Enquiries:
K3 Business David Bolton, Chief T: 0161 876
Technology Executive 4498
Group plc Brian Davis, Chief
Financial Officer
finnCap Limited Julian Blunt/James T: 020 7220
(NOMAD & Broker) Thompson 0500
KTZ Communications Katie Tzouliadis T: 020 3178
6378
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