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SpectrumOne AB — Interim / Quarterly Report 2019
May 14, 2019
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Interim / Quarterly Report
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Interim report Jamuary - March 2019
Interim report Jamuary - March 2019
First quarter
· Net sales amounted to MSEK 3.4 (7.5)
· EBITDA before extraordinary costs amounted to MSEK -7.8 (-4.0)
· EBT amounted to MSEK -14.6 (-10.4)
· Earnings per share before dilutions amounted to SEK -0.25 (-0.32)
· Signed totally seven new customers
· Accumulated cost reductions to a total of approximately 30 %
Significant events after the reporting period
· Announcement of MSEK 43.4 right issue
CEO statement
Fix before grow - important milestones reached
We have put a challenging time behind us. In late 2018, we saw that the legacy
business was not sustainable and we carried significant development costs and
non-value generating costs. As first quarter proceeded, we also experienced that
finalization of SpectrumOne demanded more of us than expected. But now we have
reached important milestones with a streamlined legacy platform and a shippable
SpectrumOne platform. We are excited to see a growing pipeline and new signings
that proves our concept. Our new clients are now using SpectrumOne and we
receive great feedback. As a consequence of our clarified strategy and removal
of non-core activities, we now also have been able to cut fixed costs by
approximately 30 %, as well as free our attention towards our clients.
Customers and general pipeline
Even though the sales have been delayed we were proud to have signed 7 customers
by Q1. For the next quarters we expect customer acquisition to increase steadily
as our product reaches increased acceptance in the market. As anticipated, our
software can be applied to a number of different industries with customers
coming from Auto, Insurance, Banking, Advertisement Agencies, B2B and B2C. This
spread proves that the market sees the value of our marketing platform, and only
in the Nordics we are presented with a potential of + 1.000 customers.
We currently have a strong pipeline built up after only four months of
concentrated work on our new SaaS solution. Several offers are sent, many
successful meetings have been held and almost 200 active leads are started. The
customers with monthly licenses below the expected TSEK 50 average have shorter
lead times than the customers with higher licenses. Thus, the medium customers
are dominating the customers closest to signing, but we expect this to even out
through the second half of the year.
It is also satisfying to see that we have managed to sign three advertising
agencies with Foll, Schjærven and Createurene, out of two reasons: Firstly,
these are leading advertising agencies in Norway and Sweden, in the front of the
development of the marketing industry, who knows what´s generating value to
their customers. Secondly, their portfolio of strong brands will give a quick
entrance to customers that are very suitable to SpectrumOne.
Cost cuts
As a result of the clear strategic focus, we have now been able to reduce costs
substantially across the whole operation. TargetEveryone had a lot of different
product and sales initiatives that demanded too much resources to handle,
without generating sufficient revenue or profitability. Contracts with non-value
adding partners are now terminated and the legal group structure is reduced. By
directing our efforts towards SpectrumOne, we have discontinued the direct sales
and new product development of our legacy platform. This led to staff reduction
and the termination of our responsibilities towards our Indian Subsidiary.
Coming out of Q1, we have now reduced our staff to 12 dedicated employees and
our ordinary fixed cost base by 30 %, without affecting our ability to handle
our clients or continue development. We rather experience a more focused and
effective company after the changes of which the full effect will be from July
SpectrumOne delay
Development of deep technology software requires highly skilled people and
significant time. Compared to other companies we are proud of what we have
created for our customers in such a short time. In 15 months, we have developed
SpectrumOne with a total cost of approximately MSEK 15. We launched our first
version of SpectrumOne in January, but experienced that there still were some
adjustments that had to be done before it was fully shippable. Parallelly, we
also experienced that the sales process of our SaaS platform required longer
lead time than expected. SaaS sales cycles are longer than typical product sales
of our legacy platform, and we now anticipate typical sales cycle to be 2-6
months.
Capital increase
Even though we always want to please our shareholders we believe the upcoming
right issues will be a good solution for everyone in the long run. It is both
costly and resource demanding to not have a solid financing. With a successful
right issue, we now will receive a funding that both brings us to cash
positivity and also gives us room to expand further. Both our board members and
our management are heavily invested in our company because we believe so
strongly in the product and the market, and we will also use our right to invest
further in the right issue.
TargetEveryone´s future
In essence, TargetEveryone now is a brand-new company ready for the future with
only two value pockets; SpectrumOne and online subscription sales of our legacy
platform. We daily see examples that the Martech market is an attractive spot
for investors with high growth rates, a lot of opportunities and consequently
high valuations. Analysts such as Gartner predicts that the market for marketing
software will grow tremendously over the next years, with expected investments
from close to all medium-large companies, regardless of industry. We in
TargetEveryone have now been through some challenging months, but are more
motivated than ever to go ahead with our state of art Martech platform, generate
value for both our clients and shareholders, and then look beyond our Nordic
home market for future growth.
Stockholm, May 2019
Torkel Johannessen
CEO
A presentation of the first quarter will be available on TargetEveryone´s
Investor page at 8.00 a.m.
CET: https://www.targeteveryone.com/investors/presentations.php?lang=en&type=pres
ent
For further information contact:
Vegard Brattum
CFO
+47 977 00 338
Certified Adviser:
Mangold Fondkommission AB (556585-1267)
Box 55 691 102 15 Stockholm
Telefon: +46 8 503 015 50
www.mangold.se
TargetEveryone AB (publ) is obligated to publish this information under the EU
Market Abuse Regulation. The information was provided by the above contact
person's auspices, for publication on May 14, 2019 at 07.30 a.m. CET.
About TargetEveryone
TargetEveryone is a global MARTECH company, enabling our clients to streamline
their 1-1 digital marketing, content and experiences within one SaaS online
platform. The company´s strategy is to approach both the enterprise segment and
the SME-segment with two different platforms that are based on the same
technology, but with different modules and interfaces. Our unique solution makes
marketeers able to easily target exactly the customers they want, and
communicate with them in the channels they prefer, to maximize ROI. Our clients
can easily segment their customers based on CRM data, market data and
transactional data. Further, they can use a campaign editor to quickly build
campaigns, and distribute these through our multichannel distribution system
either by Email, SMS or SMS landing pages. The enterprise customers are served
with our new platform SpectrumOne, combining market analysis, customer
segmentation and communication tools, while the SME-customers are provided an
online subscription solution through Targeteveryone.com. Both solutions are
based on big data to analyze and refine the customers behavior and
demands. TargetEveryone´s headquarter is in Oslo, with branch offices in Sweden,
Holland, India and USA. TargetEveryone is listed on Nasdaq First North in
Stockholm and Merkur Market in Oslo.
www.targeteveryone.com