Trading Statement

Mondas PLC 13 May 2002 MONDAS PLC Contract Wins & Trading Update Mondas PLC, the financial software specialist, announces the signing of significant new contracts within both its securities and banking business unit and its Resource 32000 accounting systems business unit. GNI, one of the world's foremost brokers of financial instruments, has signed a contract for Mondas' corporate actions processing solution, Radica CAPS, worth £380,000 including services and support for a minimum of two and a half years at £60,300 per annum. GNI is a wholly owned subsidiary of Old Mutual Financial Services (UK) plc, owned in turn by Old Mutual plc, a FTSE 100 company. In addition, Mondas has been awarded contracts to install Resource 32000 in a consortium of six Essex Colleges of Further and Higher Education for the total combined value of approximately £200,000 (of which £25,000 is annual support). The colleges are Thurrock & Basildon, Writtle, Epping Forest, Braintree, Redbridge and Chelmsford. This consortium agreement reinforces Mondas as a market leader in the further education market, taking the total number of contracts to over 80 (and over 100 in the education sector as a whole) including sites such as: Guildford College of Further Education, Royal College of Music and Loughborough College of Higher Education. These orders are in addition to the contract announced on 7 May 2002 with Brewin Dolphin Securities Limited securing future revenue of £1.42 million for project services and support over the next two years. Extended sales cycles have meant that most of the benefit of these contracts, originally expected in the year to 30th April 2002 will now fall into the current year. Despite this, the Directors believe the Company has made the break-through into profitability over the second half of the year with an operating profit (before depreciation, interest, goodwill amortisation and the once-off restructuring charge, referred to in the Interim Report) in the region of £90,000. This will not be enough to bring the Group to breakeven for the year, which was the market expectation, but the Directors believe that it demonstrates an encouraging trend which is likely to be sustained. For the six months ended 30 April 2002, subject to audit, the Company was cash-generative with a closing balance of £1.42 million, deferred income increased to over £800,000 with a forward order book over £1.7 million, the largest in the Group's history. Commenting on the trading update, Tim Simon, Chairman, said: 'Mondas now has its highest order book ever, and the Directors are confident that Mondas will sign further significant deals during the next few months. The current prospective sales pipeline is encouraging, particularly as it includes many global investment banks and asset managers. We look forward to further growth during the current year.' 13 May 2002 ENQUIRIES: Mondas PLC Tel: 020 7392 1302 Tim Simon, Chairman College Hill Tel: 020 7457 2020 Matthew Smallwood Camilla Glen This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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