Trakm8 Holdings PLC AGM Statement & Trading Update (1316J)
September 07 2016 - 2:00AM
UK Regulatory
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RNS Number : 1316J
Trakm8 Holdings PLC
07 September 2016
7 September 2016
Trakm8 Holdings plc
("Trakm8", the "Group" or the "Company")
AGM Statement & Trading Update
Trakm8 Holdings plc, the AIM listed telematics and data supplier
to global markets, is today holding its Annual General Meeting.
Executive Chairman John Watkins will make the following statement
on current trading at the meeting.
"Trakm8 is pleased to report that trading in the first five
months of the current financial year commencing 1 April 2016 has
started satisfactorily and is consistent with its expectations for
the year as a whole. Group new orders booked have been received at
a rate of 37% greater than the same period last year, of which 27%
is organic growth. This continues the trend of strong growth of
recent years. The period included the Scottish Power contract award
announced in May and the bulk of these units are now installed.
Recurring revenues have also continued to grow with 169,000
units now reporting to our servers, an increase of 18,000 since the
year end. This increase is based on an increase in Fleet Telematics
of 7,000 to 66,000 units supplied to almost 2,300 customers and an
increase in Insurance Telematics of 11,000 to 103,000 units.
In line with previous years, the weighting of Group revenue,
profits and cash flow is expected to be in favour of the second
half. This is due to the fact that reporting units tend to
accumulate as the year progresses as well as the timing of
deployment of orders won in the first half. Half year profitability
is expected to be less than the first half of last year, with a
stronger second half anticipated fulfilling the growing orders
received in the financial year to date.
The UK Referendum vote to leave the EU has resulted in a c.
GBP0.5m increase in our component costs due to the impact of
exchange rate movements. However we are optimistic that this will
be partially mitigated by our drive to increase sales overseas and
through supplier cost down actions. To date we have seen no impact
on customer confidence in terms of our sales activity and order
pipeline.
In August, we acquired Roadsense Technology, a specialist
telematics sales company, for GBP0.8m in cash. The business was
acquired to consolidate and grow the Group's share of the SME
market, in which it has been historically underrepresented and
which is growing quickly. Roadsense reported revenues of GBP0.9m
and operating profits at break even in its financial year ending
31.3.16. It had 3,500 units reporting to its servers on
completion.
Overall, Trakm8 has had an encouraging start to the financial
year in terms of new orders, as a result of which the Board's
overall outlook for the year is unchanged (excluding the impact of
exchange rate movements). The Group will report its half year
results as usual in late November."
Capital Markets Event
Following the AGM, the Company is hosting a Capital Markets
presentation for analysts and investors. No new material financial
information will be disclosed in the presentation.
For further information please contact:
Trakm8 Holdings plc +44 1747 858444
John Watkins, Executive Chairman
James Hedges, Finance Director
MHP Communications (Financial
PR to Trakm8) +44 20 3128 8100
Reg Hoare / Jade Neal
finnCap (Nomad & Broker to
Trakm8) +44 20 7220 0500
Ed Frisby / Simon Hicks -
corporate finance
Joanna Scott - corporate broking
About Trakm8
Trakm8 is a UK based Big Data company utilising telematics as
its primary enabler. Through IP owned technology, over three
billion miles worth of data is collected annually through its fleet
management solutions to create and fine tune algorithms used to
score driver behaviour, monitor vehicle health and continuously
improve the security and operational efficiencies of customers'
vehicles.
With its headquarters in Dorset and a manufacturing facility in
the West Midlands, the Group supplies a number of well-known
customers in the fleet management and insurance sectors across the
UK and further afield including customers such as the AA, Saint
Gobain, EON, Direct Line Group and Young Marmalade.
The Group's portfolio offers complete telematics solutions,
which since the acquisition of the business and assets of DCS
Systems, includes dashboard cameras that enable customers to record
driving incidents and mitigate the risk from "crash to cash"
accidents. This is complemented through a comprehensive hardware
range, which includes a self-install unit that is one of the
smallest available on the global market.
Recently, the Group acquired Route Monkey, significantly
enhancing the Group's logistics solution which offers both route
scheduling and optimisation, including routing for electric
vehicles.
Trakm8 has been listed on the AIM market of the London Stock
Exchange since 2005.
www.trakm8.com / @Trakm8
The information communicated in this announcement is inside
information for the purposes of Article 7 of Regulation
596/2014.
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