Trading Update
17 January 2009 - 1:41AM
UK Regulatory
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RNS Number : 7966L
Marinetrack Holdings PLC
16 January 2009
16 January 2009
MarineTrack Holdings Plc ("MarineTrack" or the "Company")
Trading and financial update
Since the Company's announcement on 5 January 2009, MarineTrack's trading
environment has become even more challenging with sales further impacted by
worldwide economic downturn which has affected the Company's commercial
customers and particularly its traditional leisure market. As announced on 5
January 2008, the Company has switched its sales focus in the short term to the
major one-off opportunity represented by the December 2008 deadline for
commercial shipping fleets to gain compliance with new international rules on
LRIT (Long Range Identification Tracking). Although the board believes that the
Company has the potential to benefit from this opportunity, it does not expect
it to result in an immediate significant increase in sales.
Whilst the board of MarineTrack believes firmly in the long term prospects of
the business, the very difficult trading conditions have put it in the position
where it must secure additional financing if it is to continue trading beyond
the end of this month. With this in mind the Company is in discussions with its
key suppliers and financiers with a view to securing the short term position of
the Company and will make a further announcement once these discussions have
concluded but will, in any event, make a further announcement by 23 January
2009. In addition, the Company continues to look for a strategic corporate
transaction which would significantly enhance the prospects of the business and
further announcements will be made as appropriate.
Enquiries:
Duncan Lipscombe, Director
MarineTrack Holdings Plc
Tel: 07775 681648
www.marinetrackholdingsplc.co.uk
Philip Secrett / Colin Aaronson
Grant Thornton UK LLP (Nominated Adviser)
Tel: 020 7383 5100
About the Company
MarineTrack Holdings plc's primary operating business is MarineTrack Ltd.
MarineTrack Ltd is a telematics business supplying tracking, alert,
alarm, monitoring and messaging solutions mainly to the commercial and
recreational maritime markets.
These solutions, which integrate hardware
and software, utilise global positioning systems ("GPS") to identify the
location and movements of marine vessels, as well as monitoring their
operational status against pre-determined parameters.
This information is provided by RNS
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