SDL PLC 2015 Year-end Trading Update (3751M)
January 20 2016 - 3:30AM
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SDL PLC
20 January 2016
SDL plc
2015 Year-end Trading Update
20 January 2016, Maidenhead, U.K. - SDL plc ("SDL": LSE: SDL),
the leader in global content technologies and language services and
technologies announces expected revenue and profit for the year
ended 31 December 2015.
-- Profit before taxation, amortisation of intangible assets and
"one off" costs for the year is expected to be in the range of
GBP20.0m to GBP22.0m (2014: GBP16.5m at reported currency).
-- Revenue is expected to be in the range of GBP265m to GBP270m
(2014: GBP260.4m at reported currency).
-- The trends in trading across SDL's operations were broadly
in-line with the first half of the financial year.
Initial conclusions of operational review by the Board
Following the appointment of David Clayton as Executive
Chairman, the Board has undertaken a thorough operational review of
the Group's activities.
It is the Company's intention to provide more detail at the time
of the Company's preliminary results announcement in March 2016.
However, a summary of the conclusions of this review is as
follows:
-- Language Services and Language Technologies have always been
a core differentiator for SDL. They are businesses in which SDL has
market leadership as well as competitive and technological
advantage. Both continue to experience good underlying growth,
benefitting from secular trends such as the globalisation of brands
and trade. Accordingly, the Board has concluded that they be the
core focus for investment and management attention in the
future.
-- In addition, the Board believes that SDL's Global Content
Technologies (GCT), comprising the WCM and documentation products,
are complementary to its Language Services and Language Technology
products with a strong degree of customer overlap and cross-selling
opportunities. SDL has begun re-aligning the cost base of SDL's GCT
business in order to bring focus and efficiencies to this
segment.
-- The Board has also concluded that certain areas of SDL's
technology business are non-core to its future strategy. These are:
Social Intelligence, Campaigns and SDL Fredhopper. These are good
businesses in their own right, with strong technologies and buoyant
end markets but are non-core to our on-going strategy. The Board
will now begin a sale process of these non-core businesses.
SDL's preliminary results for the period ended 31 December 2015
will be announced on Tuesday, 15 March 2016.
For further information, please contact:
SDL plc Tel: 01628 410 127
David Clayton, Executive Chairman
Dominic Lavelle, Chief Financial Officer
FTI Consulting LLP Tel: 020 3727 1000
Edward Bridges / Emma Appleton
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