4 May 2007
PayPoint plc - Notice of Results
PayPoint plc advises that it will make its Preliminary Results
announcement for the year ended 25 March 2007 on Thursday, 17 May
2007.
Enquiries
Finsbury Group 020 7251 3801
Rollo Head
Don Hunter
About PayPoint
PayPoint is the UK's and Ireland's leading cash and internet payments
company, handling over £4 billion in over 360 million payments
annually for over 5,000 clients and merchants. The company operates
with several significant payment streams:
* The PayPoint branded retail network numbers over 17,500
terminals located in local shops (including Co-ops, Spar,
Costcutter, NISA-Today's, Londis and thousands of independents) in
all parts of the UK and Ireland. Terminals handle cash bill
payments, mobile phone top-ups, transport tickets, London
Congestion Charges, BBC TV licences and a wide variety of other
payment types for all of the leading utilities, telecoms suppliers
and many consumer service companies. This network is used by
consumers, free of charge, over 7 million times a week. The network
has 97.3% population cover on a 1 mile urban or 5 miles rural
measure;
* Additional multiple retailer connections into the
electronic till systems (EPoS) of 3,000 outlets including BP,
Somerfield and Superdrug for mobile top ups and selected payments
from the PayPoint range;
* The PayPoint ATM network has 1850 'LINK'-branded machines
across the UK, also typically in convenience stores. These machines
levy a small convenience fee for each withdrawal; and
* PayPoint Internet Payment Services, trading as Metacharge
and SECPay, provides secure credit and debit card payments for over
4,000 web merchants linking into all the major UK acquiring banks.
PayPoint floated on the London Stock Exchange in September 2004 and
was the Financial Times 'New Company of the Year'. The company has a
market capitalisation of c. £375 million. In year ended March 2006,
revenue was £120 million with profit before tax of £20 million.
PayPoint has been awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise and is
widely recognised for its leadership in prepayment systems, smart
technology and consumer service.
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