Placing
Synchronica PLC
29 March 2007
Synchronica plc
("Synchronica" or "the Company")
Placing of 43.75 million new ordinary shares to Raise £3.5 million
Trading Update
Synchronica (AIM: SYNC) is pleased to announce that it has raised £3.5 million
before expenses via a placing of 43,750,000 new Ordinary Shares of 1p each (the
"Placing") at a price of 8p per share. The funds raised will be used for working
capital and to accelerate the growth of the Company's core business of
developing and delivering mobile synchronisation and device management
solutions.
Synchronica provides mobile synchronisation and device management products to
operators and manufacturers worldwide. Its Mobile Gateway product offers push
e-mail and synchronisation for the mass market while its Mobile Manager products
provide mobile device management tools. Mobile Gateway is based entirely on open
industry standards and can deliver Push Email and synchronisation services to
mass-market devices without requiring additional client software installation on
the device or behind the corporate firewall.
Use of Proceeds
The funds raised from the Placing will be used to:
• provide working capital;
• strengthen the balance sheet to demonstrate financial stability and
strength to operators, device manufacturers and OEM partners;
• expand Synchronica's sales function to better handle the strong
pipeline of potential customers and to secure additional orders;
• invest in product development to further improve the Company's
competitive position;
• increase numbers of support and pre-sales staff to better serve
customers and OEM partners; and
• continue the successful and cost-effective marketing strategy in
order to generate additional prospects.
Placement Details
The Placing is conditional upon shareholder approval at an Extraordinary General
Meeting (the "EGM"), which has already been convened to be held on 12th April
2007. Subject to the passing of the relevant resolutions at the EGM, the Company
will apply for the Placing Shares, which will rank pari passu with the existing
ordinary shares, to be admitted to trading on AIM and expects that admission
will occur on 16th April 2007. Following the allotment, the total issued share
capital of the Company will increase to 80,150,081 ordinary shares.
Copies of the circular and notice convening the EGM have been despatched to
shareholders and are available from the offices of the Company at Mount Pleasant
House, Lonsdale Gardens, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN1 1NY.
Six members of Synchronica's senior management will be participating in the
placing, including three directors of the Company whose dealings are as follows:
Director Existing holding Shares acquired Total shares Total % holding
Carsten
Brinkschulte 19,461 312,500 331,961 0.4%
Angus Dent 45,000 312,500 357,500 0.4%
John Gunn 835,330 500,000 1,335,330 1.7%
Commenting on the Placing, Carsten Brinkschulte, Synchronica's CEO, said: "We
are pleased that so many of our current investors and our management team chose
to support this placement. Mobile e-mail is now set to expand into the mass
market and proprietary solutions are mostly limited to high-end devices in the
business user segment.
"I believe our industry standard products are very much in the right place at
the right time, addressing both the business user as well as the mass market of
consumers. This funding will enable us to better capitalise on the traction we
have gained in the international marketplace and to further improve our
competitive position. I look forward to reporting progress in the near future."
Update on Trading
As previously announced on 18 January 2007 and 15 March 2007, the Company is in
the progressing an OEM agreement for Synchronica Mobile Gateway with a major
international hardware manufacturer. The process is on track and in line with
the previous announcement. In addition, the Company is in discussions with
several mobile operators, device manufacturers and potential OEM partners, in
varying stages, for licensing the Company's products.
Given contracts already entered into, such as the software licence to iXi Mobile
announced 31 May last year, and the expected translation of the negotiations
noted above into a substantial contract, the directors believe that Synchronica
will benefit from a growing and recurring revenue stream. The Company expects to
announce our results for the year ended December 31, 2006 on April 12 and will
update on developments at that time.
Enquiries:
Synchronica plc
Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO +44 (0) 1892 552 799
+44 (0) 7977 256 406
Angus Dent, CFO +44 (0) 1892 552 760
+44 (0) 7977 256 347
Seymour Pierce Limited
David Newton, Director Corporate Finance +44 (0) 20 7107 8000
Corfin Communications
Ben Hunt, Harry Chathli +44 (0) 20 7929 8989
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