Preliminary Results

Mondas PLC 4 August 2000 MONDAS PLC PRELIMINARY RESULTS FOR THE YEAR TO 30 APRIL 2000 Mondas PLC, the e-Business software house, specialising in the securities and banking markets and Internet software, today announces results for the year ended 30 April 2000. Financial * Turnover grew by 42% to £1.36 million (1999: £955,000) * Loss after taxation of £857,573 after £503,797 of goodwill amortisation * Loss per share of 6.8p (1999:5.7p) Operational * Focusing on e-Business in the securities and banking markets * Development and marketing of solutions for Client Fund Management and Corporate Actions to the securities and investment sector * Projects undertaken for Added Value Group, CIA Media Network UK, Larvik kommune and Ingersoll Rand * Mondas's e-Business product range including Internet content management, online trading, intranet portals, business process management and workflow was presented at Webcom 2000 with considerable success * New Products: Radica 4.0 - for complex hierarchical business processes and workflow control * IntraLink ST 3.5 - for improved content management of websites, corporate intranets and extranets * Management strengthened with Matthew Crook as Sales and Marketing Director and Graham Ross as Director of Technical Operations Tim Simon, Chairman of Mondas commented: 'Last year was one of groundwork so that the very real opportunities in the securities and banking markets can be exploited. Web sites, intranets, extranets and e-Processes are becoming increasingly important for communication within large organisations and our solutions and relevant industry experience position us well in this area. We will continue to develop our routes to market and our technologies, to serve our growing client base.' ENQUIRIES: Mondas Plc Tim Simon,Chairman Tel: 01932 334 600 College Hill Matthew Smallwood Tel: 020 7457 2020 Chelsea Allen MONDAS PLC Preliminary Results for the year ended 30 April 2000 Chairman's Statement RESULTS I am pleased to report the results of the Company for the year ended 30th April, 2000. Revenues for the year grew by 42% to £1,358,811 (1999: £955,301), with a loss after taxation of £857,573 (1999: £520,078) after charging amortisation of goodwill of £503,797 (1999: £289,687). Sales were constrained marginally during the third quarter of the period ahead of the Year 2000 date change and the extended millennium holiday. Nevertheless, we closed the fiscal year with April being our strongest month to date, billing nearly £200,000. At 30th April 2000 licence income of £126,683 (1999: £nil), arising from our Norwegian business, was deferred. SALES & MARKETING During the period under review the Company refocused its sales and marketing strategy to apply its workflow and Internet technologies and resources to best effect. Our technologies can deliver a range of solutions encouraging collaboration within the business and online trading with customers and suppliers anywhere in the world. We have decided to focus our attention on the e-Business, and securities and banking markets, where we believe we have a competitive edge in skills and experience, speed of deployment and price. We have recruited specialist sales and consulting professionals, which led to increased business in these core markets. The Company's most significant individual client in the securities sector, Brewin Dolphin Securities Limited, continued to implement Mondas' application solutions, to migrate legacy systems and increase efficiency. Mondas' front office solutions provide stockbrokers with information which can be viewed by individual client, portfolio, stock or market segment, giving comprehensive client holding information, to improve private client services. More recently, we have added multi-currency client risk management and integrated analysis of client life assurance investment positions. We have also developed a system to automate corporate events and actions, triggering faster response times and managing compliance issues. New software licence contracts for our enterprise intranet portal product, have been won in the UK and Norway. Ingersoll Rand, the multinational industrial and components manufacturer, is deploying our document management solution, storing compressor design specification information to improve field engineering services worldwide. To improve their global communications and collaboration, we have deployed an intranet for Added Value Group, one of Europe's largest marketing agencies, whose customers include major corporations in transport, retail, communications and financial services. MONDAS PLC Preliminary Results for the year ended 30 April 2000 Chairman's Statement (Cont'd) More recently, CIA Medianetwork UK, the ninth largest media buyer globally, launched 'CIA Extra', a series of customer relationship management extranets based upon our software. These will enable CIA to provide services which are personalised and add value to individual relationships with clients such as the new telephone and internet banking arm from a FTSE 100 company and the UK market leader for baby milk. Larvik kommune, a Norwegian local authority, launched the country's first integrated intranet and Internet 'service kommune', using our new Internet publishing content management application. In the future, citizens will be able to submit service applications online, automatically routed to the relevant department for processing. This solution is the culmination of two years' co-operative development between Mondas, Larvik and Ephorma (our Norwegian channel partner), which is now marketing this product to kommunes in the region. The complete Mondas e-Business product range including e-Commerce, secure credit card payments, intranet portals and workflow was first presented at the Webcom 2000 Exhibition in London during April. This exhibition generated over 200 sales leads, some of which have now progressed to quotation stage. We believe that this is an encouraging endorsement of our approach. PRODUCTS The Company has developed important new enhancements to Radica, IntraLink ST and our front office stockbroking applications. We released Radica Version 4.0, providing improved performance and enhancements to the modeller application, to enable managers in larger businesses to design very complex hierarchical business processes in easy to use, flexible graphics. New workflow routing tools and ease of use features such as tree-views and wizards help create and maintain advanced workflow systems that are quick to change. IntraLink ST Version 3.5, first released in Norway, now includes workflow technology and advanced publishing applications to improve content management of web sites, corporate intranets and/or extranets. Feature enhancements have been made to core modules and a new 'MyIntraLink' module has been developed, which provides users with a personalised 'virtual desktop'. These enhancements strengthen Mondas' proposition to medium and large organisations. MANAGEMENT CHANGES Matthew Crook, our Sales & Marketing Director, joined the Company in March 1999 and was appointed to the Board on 14th September 1999. He has now successfully established the newly focussed sales team, the recruitment of which was complete in November 1999. MONDAS PLC Preliminary Results for the year ended 30 April 2000 Chairman's Statement (Cont'd) Graham Ross joined as Director of Technical Operations on 1st March 2000. He is responsible for the further development and integration of products, customer support and services and technical sales support. Further technical personnel have been recruited to work on customer projects. Tony Marienthal resigned from the Board and left the Company on 8th November 1999. Stephen Lord resigned from the Board and left the Company on 17th March 2000. YEAR 2000 AND EURO INTRODUCTION ISSUES As expected, the Millennium bug did not strike our products and we do not expect to be affected by any material issues associated with the year 2000 in the future. Equally, we envisage that there will be no impact on the group and the accounts as a result of the introduction of the Euro. REALITY ACQUISITION The London operations of Reality Communications Scandinavia AS ('Reality'), acquired in November 1998, were consolidated into Mondas Information Technology Limited, its office in Highgate was closed at the end of May 2000 and its staff relocated to our West Byfleet office. This created a more streamlined organisation and reduced costs. The benefits of these changes should be realised during subsequent reporting periods. On 4th May 2000 the Company issued a Notice of Claim against Stephen Lord, Tony Marienthal and Nigel Harte, the principal vendors of Reality, alleging breach of certain warranties given by them in the acquisition agreement dated 20th October 1998 as to the financial position of the Reality group. DIVIDEND The Directors are not recommending the payment of a dividend in respect of the financial year under review (1999: nil). FUTURE PROSPECTS The Directors are confident that the 'ground work' carried out during this reporting period leaves the Company well placed to take advantage of the many opportunities it faces. We believe that e-Business is forcing the pace of understanding and acceptance of workflow. The Directors consider that workflow technology is experiencing rapid growth. Equally, we believe that intranets and extranets are becoming increasingly important to organisations to speed up the process of collaboration and communication. MONDAS PLC Preliminary Results for the year ended 30 April 2000 Chairman's Statement (Cont'd) The Directors' believe that the securities and banking industry must invest substantial amounts in replacing its legacy systems and manual processes to remain viable. As a consequence, the Directors believe this represents a significant opportunity for Mondas's Client Fund Management, Corporate Events and Internet Content Management solutions. We shall continue to develop our routes to market and explore alliances with application service providers, information providers and channel partners to extend our coverage. Geographically our prime focus remains on the UK. In addition to organic growth, we shall continue to explore the acquisition of companies with complementary technologies, skills and clients. D T A Simon Chairman 4 August 2000 MONDAS PLC CONSOLIDATED PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 2000 2000 1999 Note £ £ £ Turnover Continuing operations 1,358,811 730,805 Acquisitions - 224,496 1,358,811 955,301 Cost of sales (499,281) (244,056) Gross profit 859,530 711,245 Net operating expenses (1,725,309)( 1,242,004) Operating loss Continuing operations (865,779) (405,510) Acquisitions - (125,249) (865,779) (530,759) Interest receivable and similar income 8,206 9,989 Loss on ordinary activities before taxation (857,573) (520,770) Tax on loss on ordinary activities - 692 Loss for the financial year (857,573) (520,078) Basic and diluted loss per share 5 (6.8p) (5.7p) PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT £ £ At 1 May 1999 (1,425,592) (905,514) Loss for the financial year (857,573) (520,078) At 30 April 2000 (2,283,165)(1,425,592) Total recognised gains and losses The group had no recognised gains and losses other than the loss for the above financial years. MONDAS PLC CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET AS AT 30 APRIL 2000 2000 1999 Note £ £ £ £ Fixed assets Intangible assets 1,536,684 2,040,481 Tangible assets 25,741 60,961 1,562,425 2,101,442 Current assets Stocks 1,810 1,177 Debtors 318,166 242,721 Cash at bank and in hand 8,742 245,286 328,718 489,184 Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year (382,275) (225,218) Net current (liabilities) /assets (53,557) 263,966 Net assets 1,508,868 2,365,408 £ £ Capital and reserves Equity called up share capital 1,261,185 1,257,740 Share premium account 2,530,848 2,533,260 Profit and loss account (2,283,165) (1,425,592) Shareholders' funds 1,508,868 2,365,408 MONDAS PLC CONSOLIDATED CASH FLOW STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 APRIL 2000 Note 2000 1999 £ £ RECONCILIATION OF OPERATING LOSS TO NET CASH OUTFLOW FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES Operating loss (865,779) (530,759) Depreciation 31,799 27,451 Amortisation 503,797 289,687 Increase in stocks ( 633) (1,121) Increase in debtors (77,591) (150,135) Decrease in creditors 103,670 (40,319) Net cash outflow from operating activities (304,737) (405,196) CASH FLOW STATEMENT Net cash outflow from operating activities (304,737) (405,196) Returns on investments and servicing of finance 8,206 9,989 Taxation 2,146 - Capital expenditure 3,421 (34,651) Acquisitions and disposals - 13,267 Cash outflow before financing (290,964) (416,51) Financing 1033 476,653 (Decrease)/increase in cash (289,931) 60,062 NOTES 1.The financial information that is set out above does not constitute the Company's statutory accounts for the year's ended 30 April 1999 or 2000 but is derived from those accounts. Statutory account for 1999 have been delivered to the Registrar of Companies and those for 2000 will be delivered following the Company's Annual General Meeting. The Auditors have reported on those accounts: their reports were unqualified and did not contain statements under section 237 (2) or (3) of the Companies Act 1985. 2.REPORT AND ACCOUNTS The Report and Accounts will be posted to Shareholders shortly and will be available from the Company's registered office, Rosemount House, Rosemount Avenue, West Byfleet, Surrey KT14 6LB. 3.DIVIDEND The Directors are not declaring a dividend for the year ended 30 April, 2000. 4.RECONCILIATION OF MOVEMENTS IN SHAREHOLDERS' FUNDS 2000 1999 £ £ Loss for the financial year (857,573) (520,078) Issue of ordinary shares at par 3,445 646,565 Premium on new shares issued (net of expenses and option scheme) (2,412) 1,660,590 Net (reduction)/addition to funds (856,540) 1,787,077 Opening shareholders' funds 2,365,408 578,331 Closing shareholders' funds 1,508,868 2,365,408 5.LOSS PER SHARE Basic loss per share is based on a weighted average number of shares outstanding of 12,594,814 (1999 9,088,624), and loss after taxation of £857,573 (1999 £520,078). No material dilution of loss per share would arise if all outstanding share options were exercised.
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