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Placing of 138,333,333 new Ordinary Shares
Coms (AIM: COMS), a leading organisation in the provision of end-to-end communication, connectivity and business services, is pleased to announce that it has today agreed to acquire certain subsidiaries of Actimax Acquisitions Limited ("Actimax") (the "Acquisition") for an initial consideration of GBP2.4 million payable in cash.
The Board is also pleased to announce that Charles Stanley Securities has placed, on the Company's behalf, 138,333,333 new ordinary shares (the "Placing Shares") at 6 pence per share, with certain institutional and other investors to raise GBP8.3 million (the "Placing"). The Placing was considerably oversubscribed. Further details of the Placing are set out below.
Information on Actimax and Background to the Acquisition
Actimax, trading as Cloudxl, is based in Basildon and is a managed network, unified communications and data services provider. The company provides solutions that encompass a range of services from traditional IT support and network services to hosted and virtualised solutions, over public and private cloud infrastructure. Actimax has 62 employees, of which 23 are engineers or engaged in technical support. Actimax was formed following the merger of several businesses in 2011, backed by private equity investment.
Actimax has approximately 800 clients, the majority of which are based in London and the South East, and its principal markets are Financial Services, Hospitality, Charities and the Public Sector.
46% of Actimax's revenue comes from Support, 34% from Hosting and Network Services and 20% from Equipment and Installations which deal with complex hardware and phone systems. The support contracts entered into with clients are typically between 1 and 5 years in length and are prepaid upfront annually.
Based on unaudited management accounts, for the year to 31 December 2013 Actimax had revenues of GBP10.54 million, gross margin of GBP4.4 million, broadly flat EBITDA and losses before tax of approximately GBP0.76 million. The Actimax business underwent some restructuring in 2013, ensuring that the company was placed in a good position for the future.
The Coms' Board has identified scope for further opportunities by combining infrastructure which will be capable of implementation during the current financial year. At this stage, the Board believes that the benefits of this could amount to approximately GBP3 million per annum in the medium term, with some "quick win" synergy tariff savings to be made and with the full benefit forthcoming in the Company's financial year ending 31 January 2016.
The Coms Board has also identified a working capital requirement at Actimax to clear creditors.
The Benefits of the Acquisition
In the Board's opinion the Acquisition will be highly complementary to the Company's existing businesses, with an extension of the customer base and the possibility to target cross-selling opportunities and increasingly deliver certain of Coms' services via the cloud. Significant investment has been made at Actimax and particularly in relation to its customer centric sales team. Consequently, Actimax has a wide spread of long standing clients with limited customer concentration and sound supplier relationships, each representing further opportunities for the business as part of Coms.
The Board believes that Coms is ideally positioned to maximize the benefits from the Acquisition on behalf of Coms' shareholders.
The Terms of the Acquisition
Coms has today reached agreement to acquire certain subsidiaries of Actimax. The initial consideration payable is GBP2.4 million, to be satisfied in cash from the proceeds of the Placing. Further consideration of up to GBP1 million in cash is payable 13 months from completion of the Acquisition ("Completion"), conditional upon the revenues achieved for the 12 months following Completion, with a minimum of GBP7.6 million being reached, and paid on a pro rata basis above this level.
Use of Placing Proceeds
After expenses, the Company will receive approximately GBP7.9 million and after payment of the GBP2.4 million cash consideration on Completion, this will be utilised as follows.
Actimax
As detailed above, the Board has identified a working capital requirement at Actimax of approximately GBP1.4 million, which is needed to alleviate creditor pressure following Completion. In addition, the Board anticipates that costs of approximately GBP0.6 million will be incurred in integrating Actimax into the Coms group.
Coms
Following a period of rapid and significant growth during the financial year to 31 January 2014, the Board has identified a requirement for further funding within the existing Coms' businesses, totaling GBP3.2 million. This will help accelerate Coms' organic growth strategy and the Board believes that it needs to expand the Company's disaster recovery capabilities in order to meet the demands of a larger organisation and an increasing sales pipeline. Included within the anticipated increase in headcount will be key contract management and project management personnel, call centre agents, account managers, specialist sales, finance, product development and operational support and training staff.
Further information on the Placing
The Company has placed 138,333,333 new ordinary shares at 6 pence per share, with certain institutional and other investors to raise approximately GBP8.3 million, before expenses.
The Placing is conditional, inter alia, on completion of the Acquisition and on admission of the Placing Shares to trading and it is expected that admission will take place on 10 February 2014. The Placing Shares will rank pari passu with the existing Ordinary Shares of the Company.
Application has been made for all the 138,333,333 new ordinary shares to be admitted to trading on AIM.
Following this allotment, the total issued share capital of the Company will increase to 960,123,201 Ordinary Shares. The Company does not hold any shares in treasury and therefore the total number of voting rights in Coms is 960,123,210. This figure may be used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a charge to their interest in, the Company under the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules.
Dave Breith, Chief Executive Officer of Coms, commented:
"We believe that the Acquisition offers an excellent opportunity to leverage the existing Coms infrastructure and buying power and work has already commenced in an effort to enhance the enlarged group.
Alongside this acquisition, the Coms' team is excited by the prospects of this next phase of accelerated growth that we are about to embark on.
We are also delighted to have received investment both from existing and a significant number of new institutional investors and I am delighted to welcome the new shareholders to the Company."
Durch diese Übernahme wird COMS PLC extrem wachsen, und sich im "Cloud-Computing" einen Signifikaten Vorteil verschaffen, nächste Woche werden zusätzlich noch die Quartalszahlen veröffentlicht die zusätzliche Impulse liefern werden!
+ http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20140207-710006.html
+ http://www.cloudxl.co.uk/
News ,Chat ,Price ....
http://www.lse.co.uk/ShareAllNews.asp?shareprice=COMS
Woher nimmst Du Deinen (Zweck?)Optimismus?
Übernahmekandidaten, er versteht sein Handwerk wirklich sehr gut, und bisher mach er seine Sache gut. Die neuerliche Akquisition spricht für sein gutes Gespür, durch dies erweitert er nicht nur sein Angebot bzw. Marge, er übernimmt auch die Fachkenntnisse der neu hinzugekommen Mitarbeiter die die Entwicklung des Unternehmens unterstützen. Neue Kunden und neue Koorperationen mit Unternehmen sind nun in greifbare Nähe, das Unternehmen das kürzlich übernommen wurde, stellte IT-Dienstleistungen für den Bankensektor bereit und half auch bei der Instandhaltung, COMS PLC stellt sich somit Ideal auf. Es ist nur eine Frage der Zeit bis die nächsten bahnbrechenden Nachrichten veröffentlicht werden!
Nun zu etwas geschichtliches und zwar finde eine Vergrößerung von 16 Mitarbeiter (31. Januar 2013) auf 460 nicht schlecht und das nach einem Jahr! Die Belegschaft hat sich somit um 2875% vergrößert, die Bestätigung meiner Angaben müssten sich im Jahresbericht finden und belegen lassen. COMS PLC wurde im Jahre 2000 gegründet und war die ganzen Jahre ein Nebenwert, aber bald nicht mehr die neuerlichen Entwicklungen weisen darauf hin, dass es bald hier so richtig losgehen wird, das Interesse der Investoren steigt stetig und auch diejenigen werden angesprochen sein die Millionen Pfund/Dollar in Unternehmen investieren können ohne das es Ihnen wehtut, von daher ist es ein außergewöhnliches Unternehmen, natürlich im positiven Sinne versteht sich.
Ein Nachtrag, der CEO gab vor 2 Stunden bekannt, dass er neue leitende Stellen zu besetzen hat, dies bestärkt natürlich die Zukunftsperspektiven des Unternehmens, und er macht damit deutlich das COMS PLC ein Unternehmen ist, das noch nicht genug hat! Dir muss ich den Punkten zustimmen, eine Akquisition ist immer riskant und kostet vor allem Geld, aber ohne solche Investitionen würde kein Unternehmen wachsen. Dave Breith (CEO) weiß was er tut, es bleibt nun abzuwarten ob sich nun diese Investition nun lohnt, aber bisher bewies er sich, mein Fazit ist bullish, jedoch stellt dies keine Kaufs- oder Verkaufsempfehlung dar, es obliegt jedem selbst zu investieren!
Hier die tweeds des CEO:
See attached new role for Call Centre Manager, please apply to HR Manager Emma Richardson emma.richardson@coms.com
See attached new role for Call Centre Agents, please apply to HR Manager Emma Richardson emma.richardson@coms.com
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Um meinen Gedankengängen nachvollziehen zu können sind hier die Quellenangaben:
+ http://www.coms.com/
+ http://www.o-bit.net/ (Dieses Unternehmen hat der jetzige CEO von 2002-Februar 2011 geführt)
+ https://twitter.com/DaveBreith
+ http://www.actimax.co.uk/
In a statement, Coms said it has won a GBP280,000 contract for a new office development in Kings Cross, a GBP165,000 renewed support contract with an unnamed energy company, a contract worth more than GBP120,000 providing graphics and viewing enhancements for a TV production house, four individual contracts with broadcasters worth more than GBP50,000. and ten more media and marketing contracts worth of GBP100,000.
+ http://www.lse.co.uk/...=Coms_Wins_new_Contracts_Worth_Over_GBP715000
+ http://www.directorstalk.com/...s-reported-a-70-increase-in-turnover/
Neben den interessanten Produkten ist COMS PLC aus finanzieller Sicht her sehr interessant, die Wachstumschancen sind hier noch gewaltig, die Bluechips die du aufgelistet hast sind alle schon etabliert und konzentrieren sich mehr auf Privat Anwender. Klar das Risiko bei non Bluechips ist höher, aber das muss jeder für sich selber entscheiden, ob und wie hoch das Risiko sein sollte.
COMS PLC bietet im Gegensatz zu den Bluechips riesige Wachstumschancen, dazu noch zukunftsträchtige Technologien und einen unerschütterlichen Expansionsdrang der niemals aufzuhören scheint und dazu noch einen CEO der sein Handwerk beherrscht, COMS PLC steht solide dar, und wird vielleicht auch dieses mal zum Top-Performer ausgezeichnet, dies wäre dann die dritte Auszeichnung innerhalb von drei Jahren, sollte dies klappen stellt COMS PLC noch nebenbei einen neuen Rekord auf, es bleibt ein spannendes Unternehmen!
COMS PLC Investor News and Updates
Last Friday, the Cloud telephony company revealed its plans to acquire some subsidiaries of Actimax Acquisitions Ltd. for a sum total of £2.4 million. Additionally, COMS may pay another £1 million after 13 months of the acquisition if revenues of a minimum of £7.6 million are achieved subsequent to the acquisition. The company also announced that it had raised about £8.3 million to partly fund the said acquisition by placing its 138.3 million shares at £6 a share.
Actimax is Basildon-based company whose business relates to the provision of data, network and communication services provider generated £10.5 million even though it suffered pre-tax losses of about £760,000. This acquisition is indeed very good news for COMS as its integration with Actimax’s infrastructure could help expand its business in a major way. According to the Coms PLC statement, it expects to derive benefits to the tune of £3 million a year in the medium term horizon by integrating Actimax infrastructure with its own.
Moreover, COMS announced a few back that it had won over £715,000 of new contracts over the course of the past few weeks that included cabling work at Kings Cross and another important energy sector contract renewal. It’s also won 4 contracts with broadcasters valued at over £50,000 in addition to ten other marketing contracts valued to be £100,000.
COMS PLC Analyst Forecast
(LON:COMS) COMS PLC has been one of LSE’s top performing shares for 2013 and its full-year revenues are expected to be well ahead of market expectations of account of the growing demand for its cloud-based telephony services. The company has also experienced significant growth in organic revenues coupled with its outperforming subsidiaries that include Communica Holdings. COMS shares shot up by over 900% in 2013 following a major contract win with the outsourcing firm MITIE.
Going by the most recent updates, it seems very possible that COMS PLC will remain a top performing share for 2014 as well. Even at its current valuation, the stock is a very attractive bet for medium-term and long-term investors.
+ http://www.therem.org/...-acquisition-of-actimaxs-subsidaries/129137/
Das kommt mir schon alles sehr Nischenhaft vor, was ja per se nichts Schlechtes sein muss...aber mit der Threadüberschrift hätte es dann wenig zu tun. ;-)
zudem ist es keineswegs so, dass sich die Bluechips nur auf die Privatkundschaft konzentriert. Siehe auch: http://www.tecchannel.de/server/cloud_computing/...eter_im_vergleich/
Die größte Hoffnung, die ich bei Coms sehe wäre, dass irgendeiner der Großen in diesem Geschäft den Laden kauft, was ja auch wiederum nicht das Schlechteste wäre...zumindest aus Aktionärs-Sicht. Damit hätte der CEO ja auch bereits Erfahrung. ;-)
1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached:
Coms plc
2. Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes)
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights
ü
An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights
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Other (please specify):___________________________________________
3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation:
Helium Special Situations Fund
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.):
5. Date of the transaction (and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached if different):
10/02/2014
6. Date on which issuer notified:
11/02/2014
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached:
9%
8. Notified details:
n/a
A: Voting rights attached to shares
Class/type of shares
if possible using the ISIN CODE
Situation previous to the Triggering transaction
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Number of Shares
Number of Voting Rights
Number of shares
Number of voting rights
% of voting rights
Direct
Direct§
Indirect
Direct
Indirect
GB00B3CDXQ41
72,500,000
72,500,000
95,500,000
95,500,000
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9.95%
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B: Financial Instruments
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction
Type of financial instrument
Expiration date
Exercise/ Conversion Period/ Date
Number of voting rights that may be acquired if the instrument is exercised/ converted.
% of voting rights
-
-
-
-
-
Total (A+B)
Number of voting rights
% of voting rights
95'500'000
9.95%
9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:
n/a
Proxy Voting:
10. Name of the proxy holder:
n/a
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to hold:
n/a
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold voting rights:
n/a
13. Additional information:
-
14. Contact name:
Christian Benz, ISPartners (Co-Advisor to the Helium Sp. Sit. Fund)
15. Contact telephone number:
+41 43 888 7342
Ein neuer Fond möchte sich an COMS PLC beteiligen!
+ http://www.trustnetoffshore.com/Factsheets/...dCode=C4FH3&univ=DC
Quelle der neuen Nachricht:
+ http://www.londonstockexchange.com/exchange/...y=GB00B3CDXQ41GBGBXAIM
- Business technology specialist bolsters portfolio at Coms plc
Coms plc is delighted to announce the acquisition of CloudXL. Through this purchase, Coms will be accessing the Essex based business technology specialist's expertise in cloud based solutions, consultancy and technology services, to complement the hosted telephony services that Coms has built its business on.
With an enviable range of partners, including: Avaya, Brocade, Microsoft and Mitel, CloudXL has a first class reputation for delivering innovative, dependable solutions to its client base. The presence of such renowned partners demonstrates the quality of the services they deliver.
It is "business as usual" for CloudXL in supporting its clients and they will become an important part of the Coms plc portfolio.
Dave Breith, CEO for Coms said: "We are delighted to announce the acquisition of CloudXL. This comes on the back of a strong start for all the businesses in the group. The purchase of CloudXL immediately expands the portfolio of solutions we can provide our customers, and our vision to become a leading end-to-end provider of telecommunications is that much closer. The cloud services we now deliver collectively is growing day-by-day. The purchase of CloudXL fully complements the growth strategy of Coms plc."
"Von Ihnen kommen bereits 7 der letzten 20 (oder weniger) positiven Bewertungen .."
- sehe positiv der Zukunft von COMS entgegen ..
Da müssen wir mal abwarten und Daumen drücken!
Quelle:
+ http://www.sharesmagazine.co.uk/
Ich bin gespannt darauf welche Details in diesem Beitrag enthalten sind!