Half-year Report

RNS Number : 3593A

Pelatro PLC

29 September 2020

 

29 September 2020

Pelatro Plc

("Pelatro" or the "Group")

Interim results

New contract win

Pelatro Plc (AIM: PTRO), the precision marketing software specialist, is pleased to announce today its interim results for the 6 months ended 30 June 2020.

Financial highlights

• Revenue $2.29m (H1 2019: $2.71m)

• Recurring revenue $1.53m (H1 2019: $0.84m), 67% of revenue (H1 2019: 31%)

• Adjusted EBITDA^* $0.66m (H1 2019: $0.81m)

• EBITDA margin 29%

• Adjusted earnings per share (0.6)¢ (H1 2019: 0.5¢)

• Gross cash as at 30 June 2020 $0.75m (at 31 December 2019: $1.12m); approximately $2.7m received from debtors since FY19 end

Operational highlights

• New contract win with an OpCo of an existing customer group - expansion within the group thereby strengthening our position further

• mViva successfully installed at our largest customer site (350m subscribers) - a major milestone with respect to the maturity of our software

Post period end highlights

• Completed placing of 4.5m shares to raise £2.1m (pre expenses)

• Gross cash at 31 August $3.16m

• Current revenue visibility of $5m for full year

• Plus a near-term pipeline of $15m, of which $4m is from existing customers

New contract win

Pelatro also announces that it has expended its relationship with a large telco group, which is a customer of Pelatro, by winning a new contract from another opco within that group. This contract is expected to contribute about US$1.5m of revenue over a 5 year period and will add to our recurring revenue base.

Outlook

Management expectations for the year underpinned by:

• revenue visibility of $5m for full year (including $2.3m reported for first half)

• 2020 pipeline of $8m, of which of which $4m is from existing customers for various new modules and/or products, i.e. cross-selling opportunities where Pelatro is the only contender in most cases

Richard Day, Non-executive Chairman of Pelatro commented:

"Our interim results follow the equity fundraising we announced in August, in which we successfully raised £2.1m from new and existing shareholders to invest in sales and marketing and help fund our continuing organic growth.

These remain challenging times in world markets generally with the continuing Covid-19 pandemic; however, consumers are still using and relying on their mobile phones and we are working closely with our clients, the telcos, to ensure that the best service can be offered to their millions of users. We were able to announce today a new contract with the operating company of one of our existing companies. We continue to develop new and innovative products and our strategy remains focussed on increasing our Annual Recurring Revenue.

As with last year, we anticipate significant weighting of revenue towards our second half. We have had a good start to the second half and we have a strong pipeline from which we expect to be able to deliver revenue in line with expectations on the basis of license sales. However, we will continue to prefer gain share and managed service contracts where possible which give significantly higher returns to Pelatro over the contract length. With the pace of customer engagement picking up there remains a lot of work to be done but we are looking forward to the future with every confidence."

Analyst presentation

A copy of the results presentation provided to analysts will be available on Pelatro's website later today ( www.pelatro.com ).

For further information contact:

Pelatro Plc
Subash Menon, Managing Director	c/o Cenkos
Nic Hellyer, Finance Director
Cenkos Securities plc (Nominated Adviser and Broker)	[phone]
Stephen Keys / Cameron MacRitchie (corporate finance)
Michael Johnson (sales)

* earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, amortisation, exceptional items and share-based payments

Notes to editors

The Pelatro Group was founded in March 2013 by Subash Menon and Sudeesh Yezhuvath with the objective of offering specialised, enterprise class software solutions for customer engagement principally to telcos who face a series of challenges including market maturity, saturation and customer churn.

Pelatro provides its "mViva" platform for use by customers in B2C and B2B applications, and is well positioned in the Customer Engagement space. Our technology orchestrates the digital journey of the customers of the telcos through contextual, relevant and real time offers and loyalty programs across multiple channels including websites, social media, apps and others.

For more information about Pelatro, visit www.pelatro.com

Managing Director's statement

Engagements with existing customers like implementation and support are progressing well despite Covid-19. With respect to new contracts, while there have been Covid-19 related delays, we expect our overall win rate to remain the same. The additional level of scrutiny that businesses had introduced with respect to investments had lengthened the sales cycle over the past 6 months; however, we are now starting to experience positive movement with customers starting to release contracts and purchase orders. The contract win announcement from us today is a result of this positive movement. Consequently, given the level of the current pipeline, we are confident of achieving our order booking target for 2020.

Given that all our customers are telcos, we are delighted to note that their businesses, while impacted to some extent due to Covid-19, are quite resilient due to the higher level of usage of data by their consumers. Most businesses have moved online as have educational institutions and a variety of other activities. This move has resulted in considerable increase in data consumption by both individuals and enterprises leading to higher revenue from data products offered by telcos.

The new contract win announced today within a telco group, who is already our customer, considerably improves the value of that customer as a reference. As well as bringing valuable additional revenue, it acts as proof of further acceptance of mViva within that telco group. This success further solidifies Pelatro's position within the Customer Engagement space.

As noted in the announcement of the placing on 4 August, the Group intends to strengthen the sales team in both existing emerging and new developed markets. Interviews are already in progress to identify and appoint sales persons to cover both Europe and the Middle East/Africa.

Financial review

Revenue and profitability

In the six months to 30 June 2020 revenue decreased by 15% over the comparable period to $2.29m (H1 2019: $2.71m). Like many companies, we have experienced some delays as a result of Covid-19 but the Group remains confident that this is business will be picked up in the second half, which is the strongest period for us historically.

Of the $2.29m, approximately $1.53m (H1 2019: $0.84m) was recurring revenue, comprising managed services, post contract support and gain share income. Taking change requests of $0.34m into account, over 80% of revenue is now repeating in nature.

Underlying operating loss (excluding the impact of non-cash share-based payments, amortisation of customer-related intangible assets and exceptional items) was $0.43m (H1 2019: $0.20m profit). 32 extra staff have been employed to service our large managed services contract, although the majority of these were taken on after the period end.

Net cash and trade receivables

Cash generated from operating activities was approximately $1.18m after working capital movements (H1 2019: $0.34m). After net financing receipts of $0.81m (excluding approximately $93,000 relating to lease payments under IFRS 16) and capital expenditure of around $2.00m, gross cash at 30 June 2020 was approximately $0.75m. Financial debt (excluding IFRS 16 liabilities) was approximately $1.29m, giving net debt of approximately $0.54m (FY 2019: $0.69m net cash). Post period end, the Group completed a fundraising, raising £2.1m before expenses.

Short-term trade receivables (including unbilled revenue but excluding contract assets) as at 30 June 2020 were $4.80m (31 December 2019 $5.28m) .

Expenditure on non-current assets

Capitalised development expenditure was $1.21m (H1 2019: $1.11m) and the Group spent $0.79m on fixed assets, the vast majority of which was computer server equipment required to fulfil the significant managed service contract and which is already producing revenue. This was financed by way of a matching term loan.

Current trading and outlook

As with previous years we anticipate significant weighting of revenue towards the second half. The near term pipeline remains strong and the Group will continue to focus on transitioning this from "one time" revenue like license fees to "recurring revenue" which is more sustainable and predictable. In view of the changing economic scenario, telcos are increasingly exploring opex rather than capex solutions. This is naturally more conducive to our strategy and consequently our transition to recurring revenue is progressing unabated. We expect this trend to be in line with our expectations resulting in significant increase in recurring revenue. We are confident of recurring revenue, as a proportion of our total revenue, moving to more than 80% in the next couple of years.

Group statement of comprehensive income

		6 months to 30 June 2020	6 months to 30 June 2019	Year to December 2019
	Note	$'000	$'000	$'000
		(unaudited)	(unaudited)	(audited)
Revenue	2	2,291	2,714	6,667
Cost of sales and provision of services		(667)	(634)	(999)
		_______	_______	_______
Gross profit		1,624	2,080	5,668
Adjusted administrative expenses		(1,738)	(1,879)	(4,048)
		_______	_______	_______
Adjusted operating profit/(loss)		(114)	201	1,620
Exceptional items	3	149	-	236
Amortisation of acquisition-related intangibles	3	(342)	(349)	(686)
Share-based payments	3	(27)	(49)	(52)
		_______	_______	_______
Operating profit/(loss)		(334)	(197)	1,118
Finance income	4	37	20	54
Finance expense	5	(106)	(85)	(164)
		_______	_______	_______
Profit/(loss) before taxation		(403)	(262)	1,008
Income tax credit/(expense)		(36)	4	(194)
		_______	_______	_______
PROFIT/(LOSS) FOR THE PERIOD		(439)	(258)	814
Other comprehensive income/(expense):
Items that may be reclassified subsequently to profit or loss:
Exchange differences		21	1	(25)
		_______	_______	_______
Other comprehensive income, net of tax		21	1	(25)
TOTAL COMPREHENSIVE INCOME/(LOSS) FOR THE PERIOD		(418)	(257)	789
Earnings/(loss) per share
Reported
Basic and diluted	6	(1.3)¢	(0.8)¢	2.5¢
Adjusted
Basic and diluted	6	(0.6)¢	0.5¢	4.2¢

Group statement of financial position

		As at 30 June 2020	As at 30 June 2019	As at 31 December 2019
	Note	$'000	$'000	$'000
		(unaudited)	(unaudited)	(audited)
Assets
Non-current assets
Intangible assets	7	11,132	10,648	10,891
Property, plant and equipment	8	1,220	408	515
Right-of-use assets	9	240	420	339
Deferred tax assets		92	-	63
Contract assets		446	117	519
Trade and other receivables		238	306	231
		_______	_______	_______
		13,368	11,899	12,558
Current assets
Contract assets		246	304	293
Trade receivables		4,800	4,272	5,283
Other assets		576	425	501
Cash and cash equivalents		749	1,118	1,101
		_______	_______	_______
		6,371	6,119	7,178
Total assets		19,739	18,018	19,736
Liabilities
Non-current liabilities
Borrowings	10	1,145	359	362
Lease liabilities	11	104	260	187
Contract liabilities		228	202	274
Long-term provisions		113	-	124
Other financial liabilities	13	-	1,187	-
		_______	_______	_______
		1,590	2,008	947
Current liabilities
Trade and other payables	12	892	356	523
Borrowings	10	148	73	246
Lease liabilities	11	171	224	205
Contract liabilities and deferred revenue		337	257	665
Other financial liabilities	13	801	-	948
		_______	_______	_______
		2,349	910	2,587
Total liabilities		3,939	2,918	3,534
NET ASSETS		15,800	15,100	16,202
Issued share capital and reserves
Share capital		1,065	1,065	1,065
Share premium		11,603	11,603	11,603
Other reserves		(606)	(668)	(643)
Retained earnings		3,738	3,100	4,177
		_______	_______	_______
TOTAL EQUITY		15,800	15,100	16,202

Group statement of cash flows

	6 months to 30 June 2020	6 months to 30 June 2019	Year to December 2019
	$'000	$'000	$'000
	(unaudited)	(unaudited)	(audited)
Cash flows from operating activities
Profit/(loss) for the period	(439)	(258)	814
Adjustments for:
Income tax expense/(credit) recognised in profit or loss	45	(4)	194
Finance income	(37)	(20)	(54)
Finance costs	87	85	160
Depreciation of tangible non-current assets	135	132	188
Amortisation of intangible non-current assets	993	809	1,726
Fair value adjustment on contingent consideration	(149)	-	(236)
Share-based payments	27	49	52
Foreign exchange (gains)/losses	6	(6)	(8)
	_______	_______	_______
Operating cash flows before movements in working capital	668	787	2,836
(Increase)/decrease in trade and other receivables	416	(402)	(1,509)
(Increase)/decrease in contract assets	122	(38)	(428)
Increase/(decrease) in trade and other payables	386	(230)	103
Increase in contract liabilities and other deferred income	(413)	220	701
	_______	_______	_______
Cash generated from operating activities	1,179	337	1,703
Income tax paid	(110)	(96)	(334)
	_______	_______	_______
Net cash generated from operating activities	1,069	241	1,369
Cash flows from investing activities
Development of intangible assets	(1,210)	(1,111)	(2,102)
Purchase of intangible assets	(3)	(12)	(35)
Acquisition of property, plant and equipment	(791)	(78)	(256)
	_______	_______	_______
Net cash used in investing activities	(2,004)	(1,201)	(2,393)
Cash flows from financing activities
Proceeds from borrowings	1,117	276	317
Repayment of borrowings	(301)	(300)	(313)
Repayments of principal on lease liabilities	(93)	(88)	(171)
Finance income	37	20	54
Finance costs	(61)	(40)	(93)
Less interest accrued but not paid	16	1	-
Interest expense on lease liabilities	(8)	(22)	(40)
	_______	_______	_______
Net cash generated by/(used in) financing activities	707	(153)	(246)
Net increase/(decrease) in cash and cash equivalents	(228)	(1,113)	(1,270)
Net foreign exchange differences	(43)	7	(20)
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period	934	2,224	2,224
	_______	_______	_______
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period	663	1,118	934
Comprising:
Cash at bank and in hand	749	1,118	1,101
Overdraft	(86)	-	(167)
	_______	_______	_______
	663	1,118	934

Group statement of changes in equity

	Share capital	Share premium	Exchange reserve	Merger reserve	Share-based payments reserve	Retained profits		Total
	$'000	$'000	$'000	$'000	$'000	$'000		$'000
Balance at 31 December 2018 as previously reported	1,065	11,603	(193)	(527)	-	3,414		15,362
Effect of change of accounting policy (IFRS 16)	-	-	-	-	-	(51)		(51)
	_____	_____	_____	_____	_____	_____		_____
Balance at 31 December 2018 as restated	1,065	11,603	(193)	(527)	-	3,363		15,311
(Loss) after taxation for the period	-	-	-	-	-	(258)		(258)
Share-based payments	-	-	-	-	49	-		49
Other comprehensive income:
Exchange differences	-	-	4	-	-	-		4
	_____	_____	_____	_____	_____	_____		_____
Balance at 30 June 2019	1,065	11,603	(189)	(527)	49	3,105		15,106
Profit after taxation for the period	-	-	-	-	-	1,072		1,072
Share-based payments	-	-	-	-	51	-		51
Other comprehensive income:
Exchange differences	-	-	(27)	-	-	-		(27)
	_____	_____	_____	_____	_____	_____		_____
Balance at 31 December 2019	1,065	11,603	(216)	(527)	100	4,177		16,202
Profit after taxation for the period	-	-	-	-	-	(439)		(439)
Share-based payments	-	-	-	-	50	-		50
Other comprehensive income:
Exchange differences	-	-	(13)	-	-	-		(13)
	_____	_____	_____	_____	_____	_____		_____
Balance at 30 June 2020	1,065	11,603	(229)	(527)	150	3,738		15,800

Notes to the Group financial statements

1  Basis of preparation

The Group has prepared its interim financial statements for the 6 months ended 30 June 2020 (the "interim results") in accordance with the recognition and measurement principles of International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS") as adopted by the European Union and also in accordance with the recognition and measurement principles of IFRS issued by the International Accounting Standards Board, but do not include all the disclosures that would otherwise be required. They have been prepared under the historical cost convention as modified to include the revaluation of certain non-current assets. The accounting policies adopted in the interim financial statements are consistent with those adopted in the Group's Annual Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2019 and those which will be adopted in the preparation of the annual report for the year ending 31 December 2020.

As permitted, the interim results have been prepared in accordance with the AIM Rules of the London Stock Exchange and not in accordance with IAS34 Interim Financial Reporting . They do not constitute full statutory accounts within the meaning of section 434 of the Companies Act 2006 and are unaudited.

Going concern

The Directors have considered trading and cash flow forecasts prepared for the Group, and based on these, and confirmed banking facilities, are satisfied that the Group will continue to be able to meet its liabilities as they fall due for at least one year from the date of these results. On this basis, they consider it appropriate to have adopted the going concern basis in the preparation of the interim results, which were approved by the Board of Directors on 28 September 2020.

Comparative financial information

The comparative financial information presented herein for the year ended 31 December 2019 does not constitute full statutory accounts for that period. Statutory accounts for the year ended 31 December 2019 have been filed with the Registrar of Companies. These statutory accounts carried an unqualified Auditor's Report, did not draw attention to any matters by way of emphasis and did not contain a statement under Section 498(2) or 498(3) of the Companies Act 2006.

2  Segmental analysis

Revenue by type

	6 months to 30 June 2020	6 months to 30 June 2019	Year to 31 December 2019
	$'000	$'000	$'000
	(unaudited)	(unaudited)	(audited)
Repeat software sales and services	1,148	1,316	3,114
Maintenance and support	719	645	1,399
	_______	_______	_______
Total repeat revenues	1,867	1,961	4,513
Software - new licenses	424	498	1,887
Consulting	-	250	258
Resale of hardware	-	5	9
	_______	_______	_______
	2,291	2,714	6,667

Revenue by geography

The Group recognises revenue in seven geographical regions based on the location of customers, as set out in the following table:

	6 months to 30 June 2020	6 months to 30 June 2019	Year to 31 December 2019
	$'000	$'000	$'000
	(unaudited)	(unaudited)	(audited)
Caribbean	60	243	133
Central Asia	32	206	256
Eastern Europe	74	56	91
North Africa	42	95	135
South Asia	923	1,088	1,791
South East Asia	1,160	561	4,181
Sub-Saharan Africa	-	465	80
	_______	_______	_______
	2,291	2,714	6,667

3  Non-GAAP profit measures and exceptional items

Reconciliation of operating profit to earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation ("EBITDA"):

	6 months to 30 June 2020	6 months to 30 June 2019	Year to 31 December 2019
	$'000	$'000	$'000
	(unaudited)	(unaudited)	(audited)
Operating profit/(loss)	(334)	(197)	1,118
Adjusted for:
- amortisation and depreciation	1,091	940	1,915
- revenue recognised as interest under IFRS 15	22	14	43
Exceptional items:
- gain on adjustment of deferred consideration liability	(149)	-	(236)
Share-based payments	27	49	52
	_______	_______	_______
Adjusted EBITDA	657	806	2,892

The criteria for adjusting operating income or expenses in the calculation of adjusted EBITDA are that they are material and either (i) arise from an irregular and significant event or (ii) are such that the income/cost is recognised in a pattern that is unrelated to the resulting operational performance. Materiality is defined as an amount which, to a user, would influence decision-making based on, and understandability of, the financial statements.

Exceptional items are treated as exceptional by reason of their nature and are excluded from the calculation of adjusted EBITDA (and adjusted earnings per share below) to allow a better understanding of comparable year-on-year trading and thereby an assessment of the underlying trends in the Group's financial performance. These measures also provide consistency with the Group's internal management reporting.

Adjustment for share-based payment expense is made because, once the cost has been calculated for a given grant of options, the Directors cannot influence the share-based payment charge incurred in subsequent years relating to that grant; also the value of the share option to the employee differs considerably in value and timing from the actual cash cost to the Group.

Elements of depreciation on right-to-use assets recognised under IFRS 16 and share-based payment expense are deemed to be directly attributable overheads for the purposes of capitalising relevant expenditure on developing intangible assets (see Note 18). The figures above are shown net of amounts so capitalised.

4  Finance income

	6 months to 30 June 2020	6 months to 30 June 2019	Year to 31 December 2019
	$'000	$'000	$'000
	(unaudited)	(unaudited)	(audited)
Interest receivable on interest-bearing deposits	15	6	11
Notional interest accruing on contracts with a significant financing component	22	14	43
	_______	_______	_______
Total finance income	37	20	54

5  Finance expense

	6 months to 30 June 2020	6 months to 30 June 2019	Year to 31 December 2019
	$'000	$'000	$'000
	(unaudited)	(unaudited)	(audited)
Interest and finance charges paid or payable on borrowings	79	40	96
Interest on lease liabilities under IFRS 16	15	22	40
Less: amounts capitalised as intangible assets	(7)	-	(19)
Acquisition-related financing expense - unwinding of discount on financial liabilities	19	23	47
	_______	_______	_______
Total finance expense	106	85	164

6  Earnings per share

Earnings per share - reported ("EPS")

The calculation of the basic and diluted EPS is based on the following data:

	6 months to 30 June 2020	6 months to 30 June 2019	Year to 31 December 2019
	$'000	$'000	$'000
Earnings
Earnings for the purposes of basic and diluted earnings per share being net profit attributable to equity holders of the parent	(439)	(258)	814
Number of shares
Weighted average number of ordinary shares for the purposes of basic and diluted earnings per share	32,532,431	32,532,431	32,532,431

The weighted average number of shares and the loss for the year for the purposes of calculating the fully diluted earnings per share are the same as for the basic loss per share calculation. This is because the outstanding share options would have the effect of reducing the loss per ordinary share and would therefore not be dilutive under IAS33.

Adjusted earnings per share

Adjusted EPS is calculated as follows:

	6 months to 30 June 2020	6 months to 30 June 2019	Year to 31 December 2019
	$'000	$'000	$'000
Earnings attributable to owners of the Parent	(439)	(258)	814
Adjusting items:
- amortisation of acquisition-related intangibles	343	349	686
- finance charge on liabilities relating to  contingent consideration	19	23	47
- exceptional items	(149)	-	(236)
- share-based payments	27	49	52
- prior year adjustments to tax charge	-	-	(7)
	_______	_______	_______
Adjusted earnings attributable to owners of the Parent	(199)	163	1,356
Adjusted earnings per share attributable to shareholders (basic)	(0.6)¢	0.5¢	4.2¢
Weighted number of ordinary shares in issue	32,532,431	32,532,431	32,532,431
Effect of dilutive potential ordinary shares:
- in-the-money share options	-	6,702	-
	________	________	________
Weighted average number of ordinary shares for the purposes of diluted earnings per share	32,532,431	32,539,133	32,532,431
Adjusted earnings per share attributable to shareholders (diluted)	(0.6)¢	0.5¢	4.2¢

The criteria for inclusion of adjusting items in the calculation of adjusted EPS are the same as those relating to the calculation of adjusted EBITDA as set out in Note 3. Additionally, finance expense on liabilities relating to contingent consideration are non-cash costs reflecting the time value of money in arriving at the fair value of such liabilities and the effluxion of time over the period for which they are outstanding; and amortisation of acquisition-related intangibles relates to the amortisation of intangible assets in respect of customer relationships and brands which are recognised on a business combination and are non-cash in nature.

The Group has one category of potentially dilutive ordinary share, being those share options granted to employees where the exercise price (plus the remaining expected charge to profit under IFRS 2) is less than the average price of the Company's ordinary shares during the period. The weighted average number of shares for the calculation of diluted earnings per share is computed using the treasury share method.

7  Intangible assets

Intangible assets comprise capitalised development costs, acquired software, customer relationships and goodwill.

	Development costs	Third party software	Patents	Customer relationships	Goodwill	Total
	$'000	$'000	$'000	$'000	$'000	$'000
Cost
At 1 January 2020	6,391	108	23	6,862	470	13,854
Additions	1,232	3	-	-	-	1,235
Foreign exchange	-	(2)	-	-	-	(2)
	_______	_______	_______	_______	_______	_______
At 30 June 2020	7,623	109	23	6,862	470	15,087
Amortisation or impairment
At 1 January 2020	(1,957)	(34)	-	(972)	-	(2,963)
Charge for the period	(640)	(10)	-	(343)	-	(993)
Foreign exchange	-	1		-	-	1
	_______	_______	_______	_______	_______	_______
At 30 June 2020	(2,597)	(43)	-	(1,315)	-	(3,955)
Net carrying amount
At 30 June 2020	5,026	66	23	5,547	470	11,132
At 1 January 2020	4,434	74	23	5,890	470	10,891

8  Tangible assets

	Leasehold improvements	Computer equipment	Office equipment	Vehicles	Total
	$'000	$'000	$'000	$'000	$'000
Cost
At 1 January 2020	109	197	59	312	677
Additions	2	788	1	-	791
Foreign exchange differences	(4)	(14)	(4)	(17)	(39)
	_______	_______	_______	_______	_______
At 30 June 2020	107	971	56	295	1,429
Depreciation
At 1 January 2020	(7)	(87)	(9)	(59)	(162)
Charge for the year	(6)	(26)	(6)	(18)	(56)
Foreign exchange differences	-	4	1	4	9
	_______	_______	_______	_______	_______
At 30 June 2020	(13)	(109)	(14)	(73)	(209)
Net carrying amount
At 30 June 2020	94	862	42	222	1,220
At 1 January 2020	102	110	50	253	515

9  Right-of-use assets

Right-of-use assets comprise leases over office buildings and vehicles

	Office buildings	Vehicles	Total
	$'000	$'000	$'000
Cost
At 1 January 2020	690	31	721
Additions in the period	-	-	-
Effects of foreign exchange movements	(44)	(2)	(46)
	_______	_______	_______
At 30 June 2020	646	29	675
Depreciation
At 1 January 2020	(368)	(14)	(382)
Charge for the period	(71)	(7)	(78)
Effects of foreign exchange movements	24	1	25
	_______	_______	_______
At 30 June 2020	(415)	(20)	(435)
Net carrying amount
At 30 June 2020	231	9	240
At 1 January 2020	322	17	339

10  Loans and borrowings

	As at 30 June 2020	As at 30 June 2019	As at 31 December 2019
	$'000	$'000	$'000
Non-current liabilities
Secured term loans	1,145	359	362
	_______	_______	_______
	1,145	359	362
Current liabilities
Current portion of term loans	62	73	79
Unsecured borrowings	86	-	167
	_______	_______	_______
	148	73	246
Total loans and borrowings	1,293	432	608

11  Lease liabilities

Lease liabilities comprise liabilities arising from the committed and expected payments on leases over office buildings and vehicles .

Amounts due in less than one year	Office buildings	Vehicles	Total
	$'000	$'000	$'000
At 1 January 2020	193	12	205
Leases taken on in the period	-	-	-
Repayments of principal	(87)	(6)	(93)
Transfer from long-term to short-term	73	1	74
Effects of foreign exchange movements	(14)	(1)	(15)
	_______	_______	_______
At 30 June 2020	165	6	171

Amounts due in more than one year	Office buildings	Vehicles	Total
	$'000	$'000	$'000
At 1 January 2020	186	1	187
Leases taken on in the period	-	-	-
Transfer from long-term to short-term	(73)	(1)	(74)
Effects of foreign exchange movements	(9)	-	(9)
	_______	_______	_______
At 30 June 2020	104	-	104

12  Trade and other payables

	As at 30 June 2020	As at 30 June 2019	As at 31 December 2019
	$'000	$'000	$'000
Due within a year
Trade payables	40	12	82
Other payables and provisions	852	344	441
	_______	_______	_______
Total trade and other payables	892	356	523

Other payables includes amounts due in respect of the capital expenditure referenced in Note 8, which was paid in July as per the agreed payment milestones. Provisions reflect payment holidays granted (principally in the Group's Indian subsidiary) in respect of certain duties and taxes.

13  Other financial liabilities

Other financial liabilities comprise the fair value of payments due in respect of earnout payments resulting from the Danateq acquisition.

	As at 30 June 2020	As at 30 June 2019	As at 31 December 2019
	$'000	$'000	$'000
Contingent consideration on the acquisition of Danateq assets
- potentially due within one year	801	-	948
- potentially after one year	-	1,187	-
	_______	_______	_______
Total other financial liabilities	801	1,187	948

The amount owed to the vendors of Danateq had been agreed at $1m gross under the terms of the SPA. The net figure (paid earlier this month) was some $193,000 lower, being reduced by sums relating either to amounts paid by customers in advance to the former Danateq business but due to Pelatro, or amounts deductible under the terms of the SPA due to differences in outturn in disclosure items. The difference between the reporting date figure and the net payout is the imputed discount due to the time value of money.

14  Post balance sheet events

There have been no events subsequent to the reporting date which would have a material impact on these interim financial results.

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