OMG's contract wins

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OMG PLC

09 June 2010

 



9 June 2010

OMG plc

('OMG' or the 'Group')

Yotta DCL wins contracts worth over £1.3m in first four months of 2010

Major new accounts include Leicestershire, Bracknell Forest and Wakefield

OMG plc, Oxford Metrics Group (LSE: OMG), ("OMG" or "the Group") the technology group providing image understanding products for the entertainment, defence, life science and engineering industries, today announced that Yotta DCL, the UK's leading highways surveying company, has signed contracts for its SCANNER, CVI, DVI and Asset Inventory surveys with 36 different local authorities in the first four months of 2010. The business is worth over £1.3m, which represents a significant increase over the same period last year.

Yotta will be completing a full SCANNER survey for Leicestershire County Council, previously a WDM customer, which is due to start in July this year.

Daniel Rawle, Highways Asset Manager at Leicestershire County Council said: "We decided to switch to Yotta DCL for our SCANNER survey this year because of the added benefits Yotta provides."

Bracknell Forest has signed a four year deal for SCANNER, SCRIM and CVI surveys and Yotta will also be providing Wakefield Metropolitan District Council with a complete asset inventory. Both projects are due to start in summer 2010.

Other new wins include London Borough of Hounslow, Carillion, Bridgend Borough Council, Rhondda Cynon Taff Council, London Borough of Enfield, Bury Metropolitan Borough Council, Mason Clarke and MGWSP.

"We've seen a fantastic start to 2010 at Yotta and I'm confident this will continue," said Nick Smee, Managing Director at Yotta DCL. "Nearly a third of this revenue is from new business, which means not only are we growing, but our existing customers keep coming back."

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About OMG

OMG plc (Oxford Metrics Group. LSE: OMG) is a group of technology companies producing image understanding products and services for the entertainment, defence, life science and engineering industries.

Be it for capturing the movements of actors (for the movie industry), sportsmen (for video games or improving team performance), or children with Cerebral Palsy, rehab patients and animals (for medical, life science and research industries); or recording the condition of highways and the assets that surround them or assessing the value of properties; or even providing image intelligence and situational awareness from drone aircraft. Through this diversified offering the Group has earned its strong international reputation for precision from pixels.

Founded in 1984, the Group is headquartered in Oxford, UK, and has four offices in the US and two in the UK. It has customers in over 50 countries and is a quoted company listed on AIM, a market operated by the London Stock Exchange. The Group trades through three operating subsidiaries:  Vicon, the world's largest motion capture and movement analysis company, 2d3, a manufacturer of specialised image understanding software for defence applications, and Yotta, our highways and property surveying business.

The Group's global clients spanning the worlds of science, medicine, sport, engineering, gaming, film and broadcast include: major hospitals and research facilities such as Guy's Hospital, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and Loughborough University, engineering industry leaders including: Ford Motor Company, BMW, Airbus and Toyota, and in the entertainment sector; Sony, Industrial Light and Magic, The Moving Picture Company (MPC), Sega, Nintendo, UbiSoft, EA and Square Enix. In surveying clients include:Miami-Dade county, Atkins, and Oxfordshire, Cumbria, Derbyshire and Pembrokeshire County Councils as well as many others.

For more information about OMG and its subsidiaries, visit www.omgplc.com, www.vicon.com, www.2d3.com, www.yottadcl.co.uk or www.yottamvs.com.

 

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