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SMART PARKING LIMITED — AGM Information 2019
Nov 7, 2019
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AGM Presentation Smart Parking Limited (ASX:SPZ)
8 November 2019 CEO Paul Gillespie
smartparking.com

Recovery & growth
World-leading technology for parking design, development and management World-leading technology and first-class managed services.
Management Services | UK Management Services | UK
- Year of consolidating and strengthening market position.
- Technology | Global • Successful stabilisation has created a platform for long term growth.
- Growth in market position with industry leading technology.
- smart cities and IoT market place. • New management team and additional heads in sales and operations fuels positive growth in site installations.
Technology | Global
- Profitable and operates exclusively in the UK. Specialises in managing car parks on behalf of retail customers, land owners and managing agents and currently generates 85% of Smart Parking's revenue. • Executing long term growth strategies in the IoT marketplace.
- Designs, develops and specialises in on-street and off-street parking • Significant market opportunities intact with solid operations plan.
- technology and software, enabling clients to manage parking efficiently and cost effectively. Critical to competitive advantage in the Services business and to the future growth of Smart Parking in the • New smart city product delivery strengthens SPZ technology offering and global market position.
- R&D funded from operating cash flow and treated as an expense.
Strategy beginning to deliver encouraging signs of early growth
FY19 in review | Smart Parking Group
As previously stated, FY19 was a year of recovery and growth – actions taken include:
- New, experienced UK management team hired in H1 FY19.
- Investment in additional UK sales heads hired, 9 direct sales people in post selling Managed Services – growth in UK Services sites achieved with a record number of ANPR installations despite some losses during the year.
- Maintained focus on process improvement during ANPR installation and 'go-live' of each site.
- Investment in R&D to complete and deliver to production SmartCloud, the Smart City platform, now operational and processing data for 44 customers (some of which have multiple sites, e.g. Wilson Parking, Coles, Lidl).
- Investment and delivery of our mobile payment application delivered and now live, generating revenue with City of Adelaide, Livingstone Shire Council, Les Mills and Broken Hill.
- Investment in the new enforcement platform, due for delivery in H1 FY20.
Since the full year result, SPZ has continued to invest in sales, marketing and R&D to support our growth strategy.

Corporate activity update
- In August 2019 we announced to the market news that the Board received an unsolicited preliminary, non-binding, indicative and conditional proposal to acquire 100% of the share capital of Smart Parking Limited at a price of 28.4c in cash for each SPZ share, from ParkingEye Limited. This proposal was declined.
- SPZ strategy endorsed by market interest.
- Smart Parking continue to believe the Group has greater value than the current share price and will continue to work to maximise value for all shareholders.

Smart Parking Group
- SPZ continues to invest in our people, product and process to fuel future growth.
- Lower revenue in FY19 due to:
- The loss of some key car parking sites in the UK management estate.
- Higher client revenue share due to site mix.
- Fewer PBNs being issued in line with customer engagement strategy.
- Investment in additional sales executives, customer engagement strategy and operational resource is showing results in more new site wins, set to continue into FY20.
- Site growth in the UK Services business in FY20 will increase PBNs issued and drive revenue growth.
- VAT assessment received subsequent to year end, currently under appeal.
FY19 Results | Group Profit & Loss (m)
| FY18 | FY19 | |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 30.7 | 27.0 |
| Cost of Sales | (13.1) | (11.8) |
| Gross Profit | 17.6 | 15.2 |
| Overheads | (13.5) | (14.9) |
| Adjusted EBITDA | 4.1 | 0.3 |
| VAT Assessment | - | (2.9) |
| Other non-recurring items | - | (0.6) |
| EBITDA | 4.1 | (3.2) |
| Net Interest Received | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Depreciation & Amortisation | (2.0) | (1.9) |
| Other | 0.0 | (0.3) |
| Net profit/(loss) before tax | 2.4 | (5.1) |
| Tax expense | (0.7) | 0.2 |
| Net Profit/(loss) after tax | 1.7 | (4.9) |
| Gross Margin %Overheads/Revenue % | 57.4%44.0% | 56.2%55.3% |
| EBITDA Margin %EPS (cents per share) | 13.4%0.46 | 1.0%(1.37) |
Return to Growth | Smart Parking Group

UK ANPR roll out continues
57 new sites installed in FY20 to date. Work continues to refine the portfolio to enhance overall profitability. 432 total sites under management using ANPR technology at 31 October.


PBNs now returning to growth
Despite some significant site losses in FY19 PBN issuance is now returning to growth in line with site acquisition. October yet to be finalised, expected to be in line with September.
Annual recurring revenue grows
Annual recurring revenue from the technology business continues to grow as we win more customers.
Smart Parking Group
| Upgrading capabilities - encouraging early results
- ANPR installations for H1 FY20 are in line with plan.
- Technology wins in home markets of UK, NZ and Australia continue to close.
- Two additional technology sales heads hired since June 30th to capture large opportunity in the Smart City market place.
- Enforcement product close to completion and ready to launch before end of H1 FY20 – SPZ focused on capturing market share in the local authority enforcement market place providing a full end-to-end guidance, payment and enforcement solution.

Management Services
- Addressable market of 45,000 sites with 15,000 suitable for ANPR installations ensure long-term runway for growth.
- New site installation roll-out on track and in line with management expectations for H1 FY20.
- Growth in sites coming from existing customer base, as well as new business.
- UK management team clearly focused on executing disciplined growth plan.
- Investment in sales team with new sales heads recruited to drive growth and build pipeline.
- Strengthened account management and customer service teams to support growth.
FY19 Results | Site Reconciliation FY19 Results | Site Reconciliation

Parking breach notices
- Refocused culture to drive a positive customer experience and long term, sustainable contract engagements.
- PBNs returning to growth in line with increase in sales and customer service teams.
- PBNs from site removals will be substantially less in future due to focus on customer engagement strategy.


FY19 Results | Parking Breach Notices Issued FY19 Results | Parking Breach Notices Issued
Smart city growth continues
- | Smart Parking focused on long-term growth globally.
- Global adoption of smart city technology continues with SPZ positioned to capture growth.
NORTH AMERICA
UNITED KINGDOM
EUROPE
- Market sizing research from Navigant indicates the global smart parking market is projected to grow by US$7.4b by 2025 (Research&Markets).
- Opportunity presented by the Kaufland contract for Germany and Australia. First installation in Germany completed October 2019. Kaufland have 1,200 stores worldwide.
- SPZ continue to win smart city projects across all markets, including councils in South Australia, Victoria, Queensland, New Zealand, UK and Europe.
NEW ZEALAND
GERMANY
AUSTRALIA
Business update: R&D
| Investment in smart city technology stack
- Parking App guidance, payment and enforcement tracking delivered to multiple customers.
- SmartCloud platform additional functionality delivered to enhance the smart city and IoT dashboard.
- SmartCloud platform message processing from multiple IoT devices:
- smart lighting for council customers
- smart LPR for parking management customers
- ingestion of flight information and people counting data for aviation customers
- API Portal developers at client sites can create reports and dashboards to exact specifications.
- Enforcement management system in development to complete the end-to-end customer journey, opening up a wider pool of customers with greater product offering.

FY20 Strategy and Goals – Services
- Business back into growth phase with new expanded sales team.
- Significant infrastructure investment in FY19 now delivering earnings growth.
- Site growth to continue with a target of 200 new installations in FY20, resulting in increased PBNs.
- Maintain discipline in customer engagement to deliver the best possible customer experience.
- Substantial market opportunity affirmed, SPZ well positioned and well funded to capture greater market share.
FY20 Strategy and Goals – Technology
- Clear focus on product development and delivery for the Smart City and IoT market place globally.
- Growth in Technology sales team to drive new business. Quality of pipeline increasing with blue chip customers as IoT adoption grows.
- Grow revenue from existing customer portfolio through additional IoT services.
- Maintain win rate of key local authority business across all operating markets.
- Global IoT opportunity reaffirmed with SPZ well positioned to capture market share.
