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SerVision plc
30 June 2015
30 June 2015
SerVision PLC
("SerVision" or the "Company")
Financial Results for the year ended 31 December 2014
SerVision (AIM: SEV), the AIM quoted developer and manufacturer
of digital security systems, is pleased to announce its audited
final results for the year ended 31 December 2014.
A copy of the annual report and accounts, along with notice of
the Company's annual general meeting, to be held at the offices of
Adams & Remers LLP, Dukes Court, 32 Duke Street, St James's,
London, SW1Y 6DF at 11 a.m. on 23 July 2015, will today be posted
to shareholders and will be available shortly from the Company's
website, www.servision.net.
SerVision plc +972 2535 0000
Gidon Tahan, Chairman and CEO
Allenby Capital Limited (Nominated Adviser
and Broker) +44 (0)20 3328 5656
Nick Athanas / James Reeve
Chairman's statement
I am pleased to announce SerVision's consolidated group
financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2014 and to
report that our revenue for this twelve month period was $4.2m, an
increase of 20% from the previous year. I am also happy to announce
that the company generated a net profit of over $180,000 during H2
of 2014 resulting in a reduced net loss of $729,000 for the full
year compared to a net loss of $2.86 million in 2013.
Sales and Marketing
SerVision's strong end-of-year sales performance in H2 2014 was
bolstered by new business in China, Kazakhstan and Brazil. Upon
receipt of the China Compulsory Product Certification ("CCPC") for
SerVision products in late Q4, Beijing SIVI Technologies ("BST")
released payment for the second half of an order valued at $500k
that, as per the terms of SerVision's exclusive distribution
agreement with BST, was placed in June 2014. The BST contract
remains in effect, but it is currently under review as we are now
negotiating terms for a new agreement which would supersede the
previous one and, going forward, will provide BST with local
manufacturing rights for products sold in the Chinese market. Both
SerVision and BST recognize that China is a very price-sensitive
market and the board believe that a local manufacturing option will
considerably bolster our prospects for success. Following positive
meetings with Shenzhen-based TCL Communication Technology Holdings,
we are also negotiating terms for the establishment of a
BST-staffed R&D centre in China which would facilitate the
development of a new TCL-manufactured body-worn mobile video
streaming device utilising SerVision's unique compression
technology. The product will be geared toward the police market in
China as well as other countries.
During the year under review, the company entered into a number
of new distribution or partnership agreements which helped generate
the growth in revenue when compared to 2013. These include a new
distribution agreement in the United States and Canada with Live
Video USA for which an initial purchase order of $500,000 was
received in 2014. Further implementation of this agreement has
however been delayed unfortunately due to the health condition of
Sol Mayer, the company's founder and CEO. Also in late 2014,
SerVision announced they had received an order valued at $415,000
for a bus project in Kazakhstan for the supply of 360 MVG400 units
and an order valued at $100,000 for the distribution of video
gateway products in Indonesia. Additionally, in H1 2015 SerVision
secured other notable orders including a $500,000 for a bus project
in Brazil and, as announced on 28 May 2015, a new order from Egged,
Israel's largest bus operator, for 75 MVG400 units on Egged buses.
Egged has informed SerVision that they intend to deploy, by 31
December 2016, SerVision's mobile DVR units across their entire
fleet of 3,920 buses in Israel and 1,700 buses in Netherlands and
Poland.
In parallel with securing these new orders, SerVision has worked
to enhance co-operation with a number of well-established fleet and
driver management solution providers who have since integrated
SerVision's protocol into their own web-based platform. The latest
companies to have supported the SerVision video protocol in their
software are GreenRoad and Matrix Telematics. Based on the demand
from these companies' existing customers, SerVision is highly
optimistic that offering a fully integrated fleet/driver management
and video platform will play a major role in driving SerVision's
future sales.
New Business Model and expansion plans in the UK
I am also optimistic about future growth prospects due to new
business models currently under adoption that entail direct sales
to end customers and lease-based contracts which will generate
monthly recurring income for SerVision. Going directly to end
customers will enable SerVision to offer far more attractive
pricing to end customers and it will bring higher margins to
SerVision. Furthermore, charging monthly fees for data and service
will provide us with a stable revenue stream over extended periods
of time. We have just begun rolling out these business strategies
in the UK where SerVision is in the process of opening an office.
The company has already selected a Technical Adviser, Managing
Director and CEO to oversee all local sales and marketing
activities and to provide technical support to UK customers. There
are plans to expand the staff to an additional three employees.
Research and Development
SerVision's R&D team has made significant advancements in
the development of its new mobile DVR platform - the IVG400-N.
Although we are a bit behind schedule, we have a limited number of
sample printed circuit boards (PCBs) and moldings en route to our
Israeli office, and we hope to begin sending demo units to a number
of customers later this summer. The new product will support the
same feature set as our current range of MVG200/400 mobile DVRs,
along with support for IP cameras and full HD recording across four
channels. The IVG400-N will use SerVision's proprietary codec for
streaming live video over any type of cellular network so customers
can view live video of their sites/vehicles during an incident, and
have access to high definition recordings for follow-up
investigations. The new platform will have an integrated 3G/4G
module and the ability to host third party video content so it can
eventually be used as a mobile advertising platform on buses and
other public transport vehicles.
Also during 2014 and in the context of a company-wide audit, our
CPA selected Noa TV Technologies, an independent market research
firm with extensive industry knowledge about digital video
solutions, to conduct an in-depth investigation of our technology
and R&D assets. The report highlighted SerVision's proprietary
video compression method and our superior ability to generate high
quality, stable, low delay video streams from locations with spotty
or low level cellular coverage. The report also emphasized
SerVision's unique transcoding scheme and its role in further
conserving bandwidth. Noa TV Technologies gave our R&D assets a
fair value in excess of the current carrying value, and it
concluded that SerVision's highly unique know how should provide us
with a strategic advantage over the competition in the coming
years.
Financials
-- Revenues for this period were $4,236,000 compared to
$3,512,000 for the same period in 2013.
-- Operating loss for the period was $665,000 compared to an
operating loss of $4,236,000 for the same period in 2013.
-- Net loss for the period was $729,000 compared to a loss of
$2,863,000 for the same period in 2013.
The company experienced improved trading performance in the
second half of 2014. Revenues for the second half of 2014 were
$2,394,000 compared to $1,842,000 in the first half and the company
generated a net profit of $180,000 in the second half, compared to
a net loss of $910,000 in the first year.
In May 2015 the Company announced a subscription to raise
GBP911,927 through a subscription for new ordinary shares with
existing investors and new shareholders. The net proceeds of the
subscription are being utilised to satisfy the Company's existing
order book and for general working capital purposes.
Conclusion
Our final results for 2014 show a solid rebound from the
previous year and when I consider the opportunities in our current
pipeline and the prospects for significant penetration of the
Chinese and global police market with a body-worn video
transmission solution, I am optimistic that we can continue on a
growth trajectory. I have expectations that our sales growth will
accelerate once our next generation mobile DVR is ready for market
launch and our new sales strategy to generate monthly recurring
revenue has been fully rolled out.
I remain very grateful to our shareholders for their ongoing
support, and to our staff for their hard work and commitment to the
Company's success.
Gideon Tahan
Chairman and CEO
30 June 2015
Consolidated Income Statement For the Year Ended 31 December
2014
2 0 1 4 2 0 1 3
Notes $'000 $'000
Revenue 2 4,236 3,512
TOTAL REVENUES 4,236 3,512
Cost of sales 3 (1,843) (1,633)
GROSS PROFIT 2,393 1,879
Administrative expenses (2,592) (3,638)
Depreciation and amortisation (604) (736)
Exchange rate differences 138 (237)
OPERATING LOSS (665) (2,732)
Net finance expenditure (129) (75)
LOSS ON ORDINARY ACTIVITIES BEFORE
INCOME TAX (794) (2,807)
Tax on ordinary activities (1) (14)
NET LOSS FOR THE YEAR (795) (2,821)
Translation difference arising from
translating into
presentation currency 66 (42)
TOTAL COMPREHENSIVE EXPENSE FOR THE
YEAR (729) (2,863)
LOSS PER SHARE
BASIC 4 ( 1.16)c (5.06)c
DILUTED 4
(1.16)c (5.06)c
Consolidated Balance Sheet as at 31 December 2014
2 0 1 4 2 0 1 3
$'000 $'000
ASSETS
Non-current assets
Intangible assets 4,691 4,653
Deferred tax asset 82 83
Property, plant and equipment 70 86
4,843 4,822
Current assets
Inventories 597 564
Trade and other receivables 1,853 1,539
Cash and cash equivalents 101 165
2,551 2,268
7,394 7,090
EQUITY
Capital and reserves attributable
to the Group's
Equity shareholders
Called up share capital 1,224 984
Share premium account 13,588 12,639
Merger reserve 1,979 1,979
Other reserve 66 62
Retained earnings and translation
reserves (13,128) (12,399)
TOTAL EQUITY 3,729 3,265
LIABILITIES
Non-current liabilities
Loans and borrowings 443 532
Loan from the office of the chief
scientist 11 11
Post employment benefits 287 412
741 955
Current liabilities
Loans and borrowings 1,042 1,127
Loan from the office of the chief
scientist 161 161
Trade and other payables 1,721 1,582
2,924 2,870
TOTAL LIABILITIES 3,665 3,825
TOTAL EQUITY AND LIABILITIES 7,394 7,090
Consolidated Cash Flow Statement for the Year Ended 31 December
2014
2 0 1 4 2 0 1 3
$'000 $'000
Cash flows from operating activities
Loss before taxation (794) (2,807)
Adjustments for:
Net finance expenditure 129 75
Depreciation and amortisation 604 736
Provision for bad debts 1,088 1,820
Movement in trade and other receivables (1,402) 249
Movement in inventories (33) 71
Movement in post retirement benefits (125) 45
Movement in trade and other payables 139 151
Net cash generated from operating activities (394) 340
Cash flow from investing activities
Purchase of property, plant and equipment
and intangibles (626) (800)
Net cash used in investing activities (626) (800)
Cash flows from financing activities
Receipts from issue of shares (net 1,189 -
of issue costs)
Net finance costs (129) (75)
Net loans undertaken less repayments 155 559
Cash generated from financing activities 1,215 484
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning
of period (94) (118)
Net cash generated from all activities 195 24
Cash and cash equivalents at end of
period 101 (94)
Cash and cash equivalents comprise:
Cash and cash equivalents 101 165
Overdrafts - (259)
((9 101 ((9 (94)
Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity
For The Year Ended December 2014
Share Share Merger Other Retained Translation
Capital Premium Reserve Reserve Earnings Reserve Total
$'000 $'000 $'000 $'000 $'000 $'000 $'000
At 1 January
2013 984 12,639 1,979 55 (9,681) 138 6,114
Total comprehensive
income for the
year - - - - (2,821) (42) (2,863)
Share option
charge - - - 7 7 - 14
At 31 December
2013 984 12,639 1,979 62 (12,495) 96 3,265
Issue of shares 240 949 - - - - 1,189
Loss for the
year - - - - (795) 66 (729)
Share option
charge - - - 4 - - 4
At 31 December
2014 1,224 13,588 1,979 66 (13,290) 162 3,729
Extracted notes to the financial statements
1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES
The accounting policies applied are consistent with those
adopted and disclosed in the Group financial statements for the
year ended 31 December 2013.
Basis of preparation
The financial information for the year ended 31 December 2014
does not constitute statutory accounts as defined in section 435
(1) and (2) of the Companies Act 2006. Statutory accounts for the
year ended December 31, 2013 have been delivered to the Registrar
of Companies and those for 2014 will be delivered to the Registrar
of Companies shortly. The auditors have reported on these accounts;
their reports were unqualified and included the following emphasis
of matter:
In forming our opinion, which is not modified, we have
considered the adequacy of the disclosures made within note 1 of
the accounting policies concerning the group's and the parent
company's ability to continue as a going concern. The group
incurred a net loss of $729,000 during the year ended 31 December
2014 and had net current liabilities of $373,000 as at that date.
This, along with the other matters explained within note 1 of the
accounting policies indicate the existence of a material
uncertainty which may cast a significant doubt about the group and
company's ability to continue as a going concern. The financial
statements do not include the adjustments that would result if the
group and company were unable to continue as a going concern.
No statement was made by the auditors under section 498 (2) or
(3) of the Companies Act 2006.
Whilst this announcement has been prepared in accordance with
International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and IFRS
Interpretations Committee (IFRIC) interpretations adopted for use
by the European Union, with those parts of the Companies Act 2006
applicable to companies reporting under these condensed financial
statements do not contain sufficient information to comply with
IFRS.
Going concern
The directors have prepared and reviewed sales forecasts &
budgets for the next twelve months and are optimistic that the
group will make significant progress towards these targets. Having
considered these forecast cash flows together with the availability
of other financing sources, including equity finance and potential
sources of debt finance if required, the directors have concluded
that the group will have access to sufficient resources to meet its
working capital and financing commitments for at least the next
twelve months from the date of this report.
The directors believe that due to the post year end
developments, including the equity fund raising that is currently
in progress and the significant order detailed in the review of
post balance sheet events, that the Group is a going concern.
However, the future of the Group is dependent on it substantially
achieving its trading projections and on the directors being
successful in their bid to secure new equity funding.
Therefore, subject to the developments disclosed above, the
directors review of sales and cash flow forecasts and having made
further relevant enquiries, the directors have a reasonable
expectation that the Group and the Company have adequate resources
to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.
For this reason, they continue to adopt the going concern basis in
preparing the financial statements.
The financial statements do not include any adjustments that
would be necessary should this basis not be appropriate.
2. BUSINESS SEGMENT ANALYSIS
In identifying its operating segments, management generally
follows the Group's geographical regions, which represent the main
way segments are analysed in the Group.
The measurement policies the Group uses for segment reporting
under IFRS 8 are the same as those used in its financial
statements. Segment assets and liabilities are not reported
internally by management to the Board.
The Group's revenue from external customers are divided into the
following geographical areas, by location of operation.
2 0 1 2 0 1
4 3
$'000 $'000
Europe 1,026 1,595
Far & Middle East 1,013 655
North America 986 771
Rest of the world 1,211 491
4,236 3,512
All of the Group's non-current assets are held in Israel.
The Group has three customers that accounted for more than 25 %
of revenue in 2014 (2013: 25%) two of which are based in the rest
of the world and the other in the Far & Middle East.
2 0 1 2 0 1
3. COST OF SALES 4 3
$'000 $'000
Materials and parts 1,395 1,084
Employee benefit expense 358 423
Other costs 90 126
1,843 1,633
4. LOSS PER SHARE
Basic loss per share is calculated by reference to the loss on
ordinary activities after taxation of $728,802 (2013: loss
$2,863,005) and on the weighted average of 62,901,799 (2013:
56,616,482) shares in issue. The calculation of diluted loss per
share is based on the loss on ordinary activities after taxation
and the diluted weighted average of 62,923,706 (2013: 56,638,389)
shares calculated as follows:
Number of shares
31 December 31 December
2 0 1 4 2 0 1 3
Basic weighted average number of
shares 62,901,799 56,616,482
Dilutive potential ordinary shares: Share
options 21,907 26,185
Diluted weighted average number of
shares 62,923,706 56,638,389
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