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RNS Number : 0722B

Earthport PLC

28 March 2013

28 March 2013

Embargoed until 07:00

Earthport plc

("Earthport", the "Company" or the "Group")

Interim Results

Earthport (AIM: EPO.L), the cross-border payments services provider, is pleased to announce its unaudited interim results for the six months ended 31 December 2012.

Financial Highlights

   --      Revenue grew 32% to GBP1.83m (H1 2012: GBP1.39m) 
   --      Gross profit increased by 35% to GBP1.42m (H1 2012: GBP1.05m) 
   --      Gross margin improved to 77.7% (H1 2012: 75.6%) 

-- Loss before taxation and share based payment charges decreased to GBP3.7m (H1 2012: GBP4.5m)

   --      Cash at 31 December 2012 of GBP9.6m (31 December 2011: GBP10.9m) 
   --      Successful placing in October 2012 raised GBP8.0m gross 

Operational Highlights

   --      Transaction volumes increased 72% compared to the period ended 31 December 2011 
   --      9 new customers were signed in the period and 8 customer implementations went live 

o Bank of America N.A. a subsidiary bank of Bank of America Corporation (NYSE:BAC), contract announced in December 2012

   --      Banking network expanded to 55 countries, with more in progress 
   --      Regulations, such as Dodd Frank 1073 continuing to drive sales pipeline 

Post Period Highlights

   --      Continued adoption of Earthport's services by major global financial institutions: 

o BB&T Corporation (NYSE: BBT), one of the largest financial services holding companies in the U.S, announced in January 2013

o hyperWALLET Systems Inc., a global payment provider and processor for corporate entities, announced in March 2013

o American Express(NYSE: AXP) announced in March 2013

Hank Uberoi, Executive Director of Earthport plc, commented:

"We are delighted with the strong progress that the Company continues to make. Our aim is to become a core part of the global low value payment infrastructure in conjunction with our Banking partners and clients.

"Earthport is now providing cross-border payment services to some of the world's largest financial services companies. It is a great endorsement for our offering that the world's leaders in the financial industry have selected Earthport. The Company is at an exciting stage in its development, having successfully completed the reorganisation begun in 2010, and as transaction levels continue to gain momentum.

"We are confident of capitalising on the tremendous opportunities which are now arising, and look to the future with confidence as customer launches and service roll-outs are implemented."

For further information, please contact:

 
Earthport plc 
 Hank Uberoi / Paul Thomas/ Chris Cowlard      020 7220 9700 
Panmure Gordon 
 Fred Walsh / Victoria Boxall                  020 7886 2500 
Charles Stanley Securities 
 Mark Taylor / Paul Brotherhood                020 7149 6000 
Newgate Threadneedle 
 Caroline Evans-Jones / Josh Royston / Fiona 
 Conroy                                        020 7653 9850 
 

About Earthport

Earthport plc, a regulated global financial services organisation, specialises in the provision of a white label cross-border payments service.

Through its innovative payments framework, specifically designed for high volumes of low value cross-border payments, Earthport provides a cost-effective and transparent service for secure international payments. Earthport's customers include banks, foreign exchange businesses, money transfer organisations, payment aggregators and e-commerce businesses. Through Earthport's well established payments infrastructure, customers can clear and settle payments directly to banked beneficiaries in over 50 countries.

The Company is headquartered in London and is listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) on the London Stock Exchange. It operates globally with additional regional offices in Dubai and New York. Earthport plc is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority under the Payment Service Regulations 2009 for the provision of payment services. To learn more, please visit www.earthport.com and follow us on Twitter @Earthport.

Introduction

Earthport provides a transparent and cost-effective white-labelled cross-border payments service, specifically designed to process high volumes of low value payments with a straight-through-processing efficiency rate of 99+%.

The Company's service propositions are highly attractive to a wide range of institutions needing or offering cross border payment services and who are challenged by the underdeveloped infrastructure supporting low value cross border payments as well as the emerging regulatory demands placed on legacy platforms.

During this period, Earthport enjoyed considerable success in signing contracts with some of the leading businesses across a number of key sectors - banks, corporates and payments platforms. Many of these relationships are in the early stages of implementation, and we anticipate accelerated growth going forward. Our experience is that while these contracts testify to the appeal of the Earthport service and long term growth prospects, the process of on-boarding and rolling out the service offering for large corporates is elongated.

During the period, nine new customers were signed and eight customer implementations went live.

Market developments continue to work to Earthport's advantage. The long term dynamic supporting expansion of global trade remains in place. Remittance payments are increasingly bank-to-bank payments as opposed to cash delivery, due to an ever-more global mobile workforce. eCommerce has grown through the proliferation of the internet. Regulation, particularly Dodd Frank (DFS 1073) in North America and SEPA in Europe, are seeking greater transparency in cross-border payments in terms of cost and delivery timing.

Financial Review

The number of transactions processed increased by 72% compared to the prior period. This growth occurred primarily from existing and live clients, and therefore does not reflect as yet the full impact of the contracts signed over the last year. Revenue for the six months ended 31 December 2012, increased by 32% to GBP1.83m (H1 2012: GBP1.39m). A portion of growth is attributable to Earthport processing domestic payments (non-cross border) for customers which generate a lower fee per transaction, but maintain the overall transactional margin level.

Gross profit for the period was GBP1.42m (H1 2012: GBP1.05m) and gross margin increased to 77.7% from 75.6% compared with the prior period.

Administrative expenses fell by 7% to GBP5.16m (H1 2012: GBP5.55m), this is mainly due to the capitalisation of IT development costs amounting to GBP0.65m.

Operating loss, before a share based payment charge of GBP0.77m, for the six months (H1 2012: GBP0.66m) decreased by 17% to GBP3.74m (H1 2012: GBP4.50m).

Overall, Earthport's loss before and after taxation fell by 13% to GBP4.51m (H1 2012: GBP5.19m).

Cash and cash equivalents as at 31 December 2012 were GBP9.6m (31 December 2011: GBP10.9m) following a successful placing, raising gross proceeds of GBP8.0m with both existing and new institutional investors in October 2012. The funds raised will facilitate the continued growth of Earthport, particularly the expansion of country coverage, further geographical expansion, direct sales and channel partner programs.

Review of the Period

Strong progress was achieved during the first half of the financial year, with several major customer signings and systems going live. In addition, both network coverage and transaction volumes increased throughout the period. Transaction volumes grew by approximately 72% compared to the prior period. Costs have stabilised and were in-line with the previous period. Base costs are not expected to increase other than related to specific revenue producing activities such as delivery of professional services.

During the period, three large banks were signed. These include Bank of America N.A. which contracted with Earthport to expand its low-value, cross-border service capability and BB&T Corporation, which will use the Earthport service for retail person to person payments, providing a transparent service in line with the requirements under Dodd Frank 1073 regulation.

Changing regulation, particularly in North America, has driven increased traction in the sales pipeline, resulting in the agreement with BB&T and two significant ($100,000+) consulting engagements; one with an existing customer and one with a new customer. We expect both engagements to lead to full implementations in due course. Two further consulting agreements, unrelated to Dodd Frank, have also been signed with a major international bank and one of our channel partners.

The Company focused significant effort on supporting the previously announced partner relationships. Since the start of the financial year, these partners have contracted with three clients; two of which are large banks and one is an Asian remittance business. This is our second Asian based customer following the signing of the Company's first Asian client earlier in the period.

While some of the activities detailed above generated integration and professional services revenues in the first half of the year, minimal transactional revenue from the above mentioned clients is included in the revenues to 31 December 2012. Several of these relationships are expected to start generating transactional revenues in the second half as services are launched and go-live.

With some of the world's largest financial services brands now using Earthport, the business has seen heightened interest in all forms of cross border activity. In light of a business focus to serve the banking community, the Company has strived to improve the quality of customers and transactions. As a result of a business review, Earthport has taken the step of discontinuing transacting relationships with three revenue generating clients who do not align to the Company's stated strategic direction.

From the traction to date, it is clear that Earthport's low-value, cross-border payments service is starting to be viewed as a mainstream function of the banking industry. We expect to have increasing momentum in this space. Transaction volumes follow four to eight months after contracting with a client, with larger clients taking longer than smaller ones to adopt the service. Minimum transaction commitments and professional services revenues are now providing a significant revenue contribution during the integration and adoption phase.

Outlook

Earthport's addressable market is significant, and while early transaction volume increases have been encouraging, they do not as yet represent the potential scale of the business. Customers that are signed and live are at the earliest stage of their evolution and are expected to grow for many years to come. Additionally, there are several significant customers signed and yet to go live, and many more potential customers in early discussion stages.

The timing of growth in each customer is difficult to predict as the sales and implementation process can be protracted. Earthport's service is replacing an incumbent process within a conservative market that is historically reticent to implement change; however expansion is now taking place at an increasing pace. Over the last 18 months in particular, Earthport has experienced increasing traction with the largest players within the financial services industry.

The strength of our sales pipeline means our main focus is now the closure and implementation of deals in our core geographies of North America, Europe, Russia and the CIS. This will continue into 2013. Areas relatively unexploited thus far by Earthport include Asia, Latin America and Africa. The Company has made substantial progress in building out its network to encompass these regions; providing a base for expansion. Earthport may explore accelerating its presence through a partnership program ahead of direct expansion into these regions in future years.

Earthport continued to broaden its reach and consolidate its market position, and the Board believes the Company is well positioned to exploit its significant market opportunity.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME

for the six months ended 31 December 2012

 
                                              Unaudited   Unaudited     Audited 
                                               6 months    6 months   12 months 
                                                  Ended       ended       ended 
                                                 31 Dec      31 Dec      30 Jun 
                                                   2012        2011        2012 
 Continuing operations:               Notes     GBP'000     GBP'000     GBP'000 
 
 Revenue                                          1,825       1,387       3,017 
 
 Cost of sales                                    (407)       (338)       (670) 
                                             ----------  ----------  ---------- 
 
 Gross profit                                     1,418       1,049       2,347 
 
 Administrative expenses                        (5,158)     (5,551)    (10,825) 
                                             ----------  ----------  ---------- 
 
 Operating loss before share-based 
  payment charge                                (3,740)     (4,502)     (8,478) 
 
 Share-based payment charge                       (772)       (662)     (1,110) 
                                             ----------  ----------  ---------- 
 
 Operating loss                                 (4,512)     (5,164)     (9,588) 
 
 Finance income/(costs)                               6        (23)        (41) 
                                             ----------  ----------  ---------- 
 
 Loss before taxation                           (4,506)     (5,187)     (9,629) 
 
 Taxation                                             -           -           - 
                                             ----------  ----------  ---------- 
 
 Loss and total comprehensive 
  income                                        (4,506)     (5,187)     (9,629) 
                                             ==========  ==========  ========== 
 attributable to owners of the 
  parent 
 
 
 
 Loss per share - basic and 
  diluted                                 4     (1.55p)     (2.57p)     (3.87p) 
                                             ==========  ==========  ========== 
 
 
 

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION

at 31 December 2012

 
                                          Unaudited               Unaudited     Audited 
                                        31 Dec 2012             31 Dec 2011      30 Jun 
                                                                                   2012 
                                Notes       GBP'000                 GBP'000     GBP'000 
 
 Non-current assets 
 Intangible assets                            1,025                       -         535 
 Property, plant and 
  equipment                                     174                     211         213 
                                       ------------  ----------------------  ---------- 
 
                                              1,199                     211         748 
                                       ------------  ----------------------  ---------- 
 
 
 Current assets 
 Trade and other receivables      5           1,312                   1,110       1,472 
 Cash and cash equivalents                    9,629                  10,922       5,766 
                                       ------------  ----------------------  ---------- 
 
                                             10,941                  12,032       7,238 
                                       ------------  ----------------------  ---------- 
 
 
 Total assets                                12,140                  12,243       7,986 
 
 
 Current liabilities 
 Trade and other payables         6           (469)                   (844)       (581) 
                                       ------------  ----------------------  ---------- 
 
 Total liabilities                            (469)                   (844)       (581) 
                                       ------------  ----------------------  ---------- 
 
 
 
 NEt ASSETS                                  11,671                  11,399       7,405 
                                       ============  ======================  ========== 
 
 
 Equity 
 Capital and reserves 
 Ordinary shares                  7          57,338                  51,571      51,571 
 Share premium                    8          53,651                  51,318      51,318 
 Own shares                       9         (1,054)                   (954)       (954) 
 Merger reserve                               9,200                   9,200       9,200 
 Share-based payment 
  reserve                                     8,103                   6,883       7,331 
 Warrant reserve                              1,044                   1,312       1,312 
 Retained earnings                        (116,611)               (107,931)   (112,373) 
 
 EQUITY ATTRIBUTABLE 
  TO                                         11,671                  11,399       7,405 
                                       ============  ======================  ========== 
 OWNERS OF THE PARENT 
 
 

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS

for the six months ended 31 December 2012

 
                                              Unaudited   Unaudited      Audited 
                                               6 months    6 months    12 months 
                                                  ended       ended        ended 
                                                 31 Dec      31 Dec       30 Jun 
                                                   2012        2011         2012 
                                      Notes     GBP'000     GBP'000      GBP'000 
 
  NET CASH USED IN OPERATING 
   ACTIVITIES                            10     (3,467)     (4,893)      (9,442) 
 
    INVESTING ACTIVITIES 
  Purchase of property, plant 
   and equipment                                   (23)       (133)        (193) 
  Capitalised development costs                   (647)           -        (611) 
                                             ----------  ----------  ----------- 
 
  NET CASH USED IN INVESTING 
   ACTIVITIES                                     (670)       (133)        (804) 
 
 
  FINANCING ACTIVITIES 
  Issue of ordinary share capital 
   (net of costs paid)                            7,812       8,669        8,669 
  Issue of shares on exercise 
   of warrants                                      188       1,815        1,815 
  Proceeds on issue of convertible 
   loan notes                                         -       1,638        1,702 
                                             ----------  ----------  ----------- 
 
  NET CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING 
   ACTIVITIES                                     8,000      12,122       12,186 
                                             ----------  ----------  ----------- 
 
  NET INCREASE IN CASH AND 
   CASH EQUIVALENTS                               3,863       7,096        1,940 
 
  CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS 
   AT THE BEGINNING OF THE PERIOD                 5,766       3,826        3,826 
                                             ----------  ----------  ----------- 
 
  CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS 
   AT THE END OF THE PERIOD                       9,629      10,922        5,766 
                                             ==========  ==========  =========== 
 
 
 

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY

Six months ended 31 December 2011 (Unaudited)

 
                                                               Share-based 
                          Ordinary    Share      Own   Merger      Payment  Warrant   Retained 
                            Shares  Premium   Shares  Reserve      Reserve  Reserve   Earnings          Total 
                           GBP'000  GBP'000  GBP'000  GBP'000      GBP'000  GBP'000    GBP'000        GBP'000 
 
       Balance at 1 July 
                    2011    43,643   46,560    (954)    9,200        6,221    1,956  (103,388)          3,238 
                          --------  -------  -------  -------  -----------  -------  ---------  ------------- 
 
    Loss for the period, 
             being total 
    comprehensive income 
                     for 
              the period         -        -                 -            -        -    (5,187)        (5,187) 
 
       Transactions with 
                  owners 
    Share-based payments 
 -employee share options         -        -        -        -          662        -          -            662 
              - warrants         -        -        -        -            -    (644)        644              - 
       Issue of ordinary 
                  shares     7,290    4,048        -        -            -        -          -         11,338 
      Conversion of loan 
                   notes       964      674        -        -            -        -          -          1,638 
     Cost of Share Issue         -    (290)        -        -            -        -          -          (290) 
      Total transactions 
             with owners     8,254    4,432        -        -          662    (644)        644         13,348 
 
 
  Balance at 31 December 
                    2011    51,897   50,992    (954)    9,200        6,883    1,312  (107,931)         11,399 
                          --------  -------  -------  -------  -----------  -------  ---------  ------------- 
 

Six months ended 31 December 2012 (Unaudited)

 
                                                                 Share-based 
                           Ordinary    Share       Own   Merger      Payment  Warrant   Retained 
                             Shares  Premium    Shares  Reserve      Reserve  Reserve   Earnings     Total 
                            GBP'000  GBP'000   GBP'000  GBP'000      GBP'000  GBP'000    GBP'000   GBP'000 
 
        Balance at 1 July 
                     2012    51,571   51,318     (954)    9,200        7,331    1,312  (112,373)     7,405 
                           --------  -------  --------  -------  -----------  -------  ---------  -------- 
 
       Loss for the year, 
              being total 
     comprehensive income 
                      for 
                 the year         -        -         -        -            -        -    (4,506)   (4,506) 
 
        Transactions with 
                   owners 
     Share-based payments 
 - employee share options         -        -         -        -          772        -          -       772 
               - warrants       188        -         -        -            -    (268)        268       188 
        Issue of ordinary 
                   shares     5,579    2,522     (100)        -            -        -          -     8,001 
     Cost of share issues         -    (189)         -        -            -        -          -     (189) 
       Total transactions 
              with owners     5,767    2,333     (100)        -          772    (268)        268     8,772 
 
 
 
   Balance at 31 December 
                     2012    57,338   53,651   (1,054)    9,200        8,103    1,044  (116,611)    11,671 
                           --------  -------  --------  -------  -----------  -------  ---------  -------- 
 

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY

Year ended 30 June 2012 (Audited)

 
                                                            Share-based 
                       Ordinary    Share      Own   Merger      Payment  Warrant   Retained 
                         Shares  Premium   Shares  Reserve      Reserve  Reserve   Earnings    Total 
                        GBP'000  GBP'000  GBP'000  GBP'000      GBP'000  GBP'000    GBP'000  GBP'000 
 
    Balance at 1 July 
                 2011    43,317   46,886    (954)    9,200        6,221    1,956  (103,388)    3,238 
                       --------  -------  -------  -------  -----------  -------  ---------  ------- 
 
   Loss for the year, 
          being total 
 comprehensive income 
                  for 
             the year         -        -        -        -            -        -    (9,629)  (9,629) 
 
    Transactions with 
               owners 
 Share-based payments 
     - employee share 
              options         -        -        -        -        1,110        -          -    1,110 
           - warrants     1,650      165        -        -            -    (644)        644    1,815 
    Issue of ordinary 
               shares     5,270    3,689        -        -            -        -          -    8,959 
      Conversion Loan 
                notes     1,334      868        -        -            -        -          -    2,202 
 Cost of share issues         -    (290)        -        -            -        -          -    (290) 
   Total transactions 
          with owners     8,254    4,432        -        -        1,110    (644)        644   13,796 
 
 
 
   Balance at 30 June 
                 2012    51,571   51,318    (954)    9,200        7,331    1,312  (112,373)    7,405 
                       --------  -------  -------  -------  -----------  -------  ---------  ------- 
 

notes to the INTERIM results

for the six months ended 31 December 2012

   1.             GENERAL INFORMATION 

Earthport plc is a public limited company incorporated and domiciled in the England and Wales under the Companies Act 2006. The address of its principal place of business and registered office is 21 New Street, London EC2M 4TP.

   2.             GOING CONCERN 

The interim financial information has been prepared on the assumption that the Group is a going concern.

When assessing the foreseeable future the directors have looked at a period of twelve months from the date of approval of the interim financial information. The forecast cash-flow requirement of the business is contingent upon the ability of the Group to generate future sales. The uncertainty as to the timing of the future growth in sales, together with the potential impact on the follow-on funding arrangements require the directors to consider the Group's ability to continue as a going concern. Notwithstanding this uncertainly, the directors believe that the Group has demonstrated progress in achieving its objective of positioning the Group as an infrastructure supplier to the global payments industry, and therefore consider that it is appropriate to prepare the Group's interim financial information on a going concern basis, which assumes that the Company is to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

   3.             ACCOUNTING POLICIES 

Basis of preparation

The interim financial information is prepared using accounting policies consistent with International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS") as adopted by the European Union.

The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention and the principal accounting policies are set out in the 30 June 2012 financial statements.

notes to the INTERIM results

for the six months ended 31 December 2012

   4.             LOSS PER SHARE 

Loss per share is calculated by dividing the loss attributable to equity holders of the Company by the weighted average number of ordinary shares in issue during the period.

 
                                        Unaudited   Unaudited           Audited 
                                         6 months    6 months         12 months 
                                            ended       ended             ended 
                                           31 Dec      31 Dec            30 Jun 
                                             2012        2011              2012 
                                          GBP'000     GBP'000           GBP'000 
 
 Loss attributable to owners 
  of the parent                           (4,506)     (5,187)           (9,629) 
                                       ==========  ==========  ================ 
 
 
 
                                           Number      Number            Number 
 
 Weighted average number of ordinary 
  shares in issue                         295,781     207,537           254,142 
                                       ----------  ----------  ---------------- 
 
  (thousands)                             (5,878)     (5,451)           (5,451) 
 Less: own shares held                    289,903     202,086           248,691 
                                       ==========  ==========  ================ 
 
 
 
 Basic and fully diluted loss 
  per share (pence)                       (1.55p)     (2.57p)           (3.87p) 
                                       ==========  ==========  ================ 
 
 
 

The loss attributable to Ordinary shareholders and weighted average number of ordinary shares for the purposes of calculating the diluted loss per share are identical to those used for basic loss per ordinary share. This is because the exercise of share options and other benefits would have the effect of reducing loss per share and is therefore not dilutive under the terms of IAS33 "Earnings per share".

   5.             TRADE AND OTHER RECEIVABLES 
 
                         Unaudited     Unaudited       Audited 
                       31 Dec 2012   31 Dec 2011   30 Jun 2012 
                           GBP'000       GBP'000       GBP'000 
 
  Trade receivables            462           411           706 
  Other receivables            526           384           412 
  Prepayments                  324           315           354 
                      ------------  ------------  ------------ 
 
                             1,312         1,110         1,472 
                      ============  ============  ============ 
 
 
 

notes to the INTERIM results

for the six months ended 31 December 2012

   6.             TRADE AND OTHER PAYABLES 
 
                                         Unaudited     Unaudited       Audited 
                                       31 Dec 2012   31 Dec 2011   30 Jun 2012 
                                           GBP'000       GBP'000       GBP'000 
 
 Trade payables                                103           430           171 
 Other payables                                  6            17             3 
 Other taxation and social security            165           217           174 
 Accruals and deferred income                  195           180           233 
                                      ------------  ------------  ------------ 
 
                                               469           844           581 
                                      ============  ============  ============ 
 
 
 

Trade payables and accruals principally comprise amounts outstanding in respect of operating costs. The directors consider that the carrying amounts for trade and other payables approximate their fair value.

   7.             SHARE CAPITAL 

Authorised

The Articles of Association were amended on 24 March 2010. The Company has no authorised share capital limit.

Issued

 
                                                       6 months      6 months     12 months 
                                                          ended         Ended         Ended 
                                                    31 Dec 2012   31 Dec 2011   30 Jun 2012 
                                                        GBP'000       GBP'000       GBP'000 
 
  At start of period (Dec 2012: 285,123,463;             28,512        20,258        20,258 
 Dec 2011: 202,580,300) ordinary shares 10p each 
 Shares issues in the period                              5,579         5,270         5,270 
 Exercise of warrants                                       188         1,650         1,650 
 Conversion of 2011 Loan Notes                                -           963           963 
 Conversion of 2009 Loan Notes                                -           371           371 
                                                   ------------  ------------  ------------ 
 
 At end of period (Dec 2012: 342,793,064;                34,279        28,512        28,512 
 Dec 2011: 285,123,463) ordinary shares 10p each 
 Deferred shares of 7.5p each: 307,449,792               23,059        23,059        23,059 
                                                   ------------  ------------  ------------ 
 
  Total                                                  57,338        51,571        51,571 
                                                   ============  ============  ============ 
 
 

On 22 October 2012 the Company raised gross proceeds of GBP8m by placing and issuing 55,186,372 new ordinary shares of 10p each.

Deferred shares carry no rights to receive any dividend nor other distribution. The holders of the deferred shares have no rights to receive notice, nor attend, speak or vote at any general meeting of the Company. On a return of capital on liquidation or otherwise, the holders of the deferred shares are entitled to receive the nominal amount paid up on the deferred shares after the repayment of GBP10,000,000 per ordinary share.

notes to the INTERIM results

for the six months ended 31 December 2012

   8.             SHARE PREMIUM 
 
                                Unaudited     Unaudited        Audited 
                                 6 months      6 months      12 months 
                                    ended         ended          ended 
                              31 Dec 2012   31 Dec 2011   30 June 2012 
                                  GBP'000       GBP'000        GBP'000 
 
 At start of period                51,318        46,886         46,886 
 Premium on shares issued           2,522         4,722          4,722 
  Expenses of share issues          (189)         (290)          (290) 
                             ------------  ------------  ------------- 
 
 At end of period                  53,651        51,318         51,318 
                             ============  ============  ============= 
 
 
   9.             OWN SHARES 
 
                                                  Unaudited     Unaudited       Audited 
                                                31 Dec 2012   31 Dec 2011   30 Jun 2012 
                                                    GBP'000       GBP'000       GBP'000 
 At the start of period                                 954           954           954 
 Shares issued to Joint Share Ownership Plan            100             -             - 
                                               ------------  ------------  ------------ 
 
 At the end of period                                 1,054           954           954 
                                               ============  ============  ============ 
 
 
 
   10.          RECONCILIATION OF LOSS BEFORE TAX TO NET CASH OUTFLOW FROM 

OPERATING ACTIVITIES

 
                                                    Unaudited     Unaudited       Audited 
                                                     6 months      6 months     12 months 
                                                        ended         ended         ended 
                                                  31 Dec 2012   31 Dec 2011   30 Jun 2012 
                                                      GBP'000       GBP'000       GBP'000 
 
 Loss before taxation                                 (4,506)       (5,187)       (9,629) 
 Amortisation of intangible assets                        157             -            76 
 Depreciation of property, plant and equipment             62            55           113 
 Share-based payment charge                               772           662         1,110 
 Finance (income)/costs                                   (6)            23            41 
                                                 ------------  ------------  ------------ 
 
 Operating cash out flow before movements in          (3,521)       (4,447)       (8,289) 
    working capital 
 Decrease/(Increase) in receivables                       160         (439)         (801) 
 (Decrease)/Increase in payables                        (112)            16         (311) 
                                                 ------------  ------------  ------------ 
 
 Cash used by operations                              (3,473)       (4,870)       (9,401) 
 Interest received/(paid)                                   6          (23)          (41) 
                                                 ------------  ------------  ------------ 
 
 Net cash used in operating activities                (3,467)       (4,893)       (9,442) 
                                                 ============  ============  ============ 
 
 

notes to the INTERIM results

for the six months ended 31 December 2012

   11.          PUBLICATION OF NON-STATUTORY FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 

The results for the six months ended 31 December 2012 and 31 December 2011 are unaudited and have not been reviewed by the auditor. The results for the year ended 30 June 2012 do not constitute statutory financial statements as defined in section 434 of the Companies Act 2006, but have been derived from the full audited financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2012. Statutory accounts for the year ended 30 June 2012, on which the auditors gave an audit report which was unqualified and did not contain a statement under section 498(2) or (3) of the Companies Act 2006, have been filed with the Registrar of Companies.

12. The interim results for the six months ended 31 December 2012 are available on the Company's website: www.earthport.com.

This information is provided by RNS

The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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