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RNS Number : 7916P  Aurrigo International PLC  14 February 2023

14 February 2023

Aurrigo International plc

Trading Update

Strong performance with momentum building since IPO

Aurrigo International plc (AIM: AURR, the "Company" or "Aurrigo"), a leading
international provider of transport technology solutions, provides a trading
update for the year ended 31 December 2022.

 

Following its successful IPO on AIM in September 2022, the Company delivered a
strong operational and financial performance in line with market
expectations*.

Since IPO, Aurrigo has invested in the further development of its Autonomous
and Aviation division which has seen positive progress. In October 2022, it
signed an agreement with Singapore's Changi Airport Group for the next phase
of development of the Auto-Dolly, Aurrigo's innovative baggage transportation
solution for airports. This phase involves trialling the Auto-Dolly on the
ground at Changi Airport. There has also been significant positive engagement
with other airport groups, both in terms of Auto-Dolly and also Auto-Sim, the
Company's airport design, development and modelling tool.  Further investment
is being made in the next generation of the Company's autonomous vehicles,
including a MK2 version of the Auto-DollyTug, with particular focus on the
requirement to deliver commercial scale production.

 

The Automotive division experienced a strong second half performance with good
activity levels across all customers and enquiry levels continue to be
encouraging, particularly amongst new potential customers.

 

With the benefit of the proceeds received from the IPO, Aurrigo has also been
able to grow its team, hiring 18 employees across the UK and internationally,
expanding its personnel from 52 at IPO to 70 in January 2023, with the aim of
reaching 100 staff by the end of 2023. It has particularly expanded its sales,
marketing and engineering capabilities, together with senior positions,
including hiring an experienced HR Director.

 

Post period-end, in February 2023, Aurrigo won a £0.7 million Innovate UK
grant as part of the Sunderland Advanced Mobility Shuttle ("SAMS") project
with Sunderland City Council. It has also signed an Industry Innovation
Collaboration Agreement with the University of Ottawa in Canada. Aurrigo is
seeing many of these types of opportunities for the development and
demonstration of its autonomous technology solutions with industry partners,
further building its national and international relationships within the
aviation and autonomous sectors.

 

Aurrigo expects to report its full year results during April 2023.

 

David Keene, CEO of Aurrigo, commented:

 

"2022 was a transformational year for Aurrigo - we joined AIM and raised the
funds to invest in our innovative technology, develop our market position and
grow our dedicated team. We're proud to be delivering on what we set out at
the time of the IPO and to have started 2023 strongly with industry
partnerships in Aviation and good traction across Automotive."

 

*Aurrigo understands that market expectations for the year ended 31 December
2022 are for revenues of £5.2m,  EBITDA loss of -£1.2m and net cash/debt of
-£5.0m (Source: FactSet)

 

For further enquiries:

 Aurrigo International plc                                   +44 (0)2476 635818

 David Keene, Chief Executive Officer

 Ian Grubb, Chief Financial Officer

 Singer Capital Markets (Nominated Adviser and Sole Broker)  +44 (0)20 7496 3000

 Phil Davies, Rick Thompson, George Tzimas

 Instinctif Partners (Financial Communications)              +44 (0)20 7457 2020

 Rozi Morris, Tim McCall, Isadora Pegler                     aurrigo@instinctif.com

 

About Aurrigo

Aurrigo is a leading international provider of transport technology solutions.
Headquartered in Coventry, UK, the company designs, engineers, manufactures
and supplies OEM products and autonomous vehicles to the automotive and
transport industries. It is highly regarded as a specialist in autonomous and
semi-autonomous technology solutions for the aviation, ground handling and
cargo industries.

The company has three divisions, Automotive Technology, Autonomous Technology
and Aviation Technology. For more information, see www.aurrigo.com
(http://www.aurrigo.com)

 

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