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RNS Number : 3395X  Cordel Group PLC  23 July 2024

23 July 2024

Cordel Group PLC

("Cordel" or the "Company" or the "Group")

 

Business and Trading Update

Appointment of Broker

 

Cordel Group PLC (AIM: CRDL), the Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform for
transport corridor analytics, is pleased to provide an update on full-year
trading for the year ended 30 June 2024 and the progress made by the Company
in the year.

The Company expects to report revenue for the year ending 30 June 2024
("FY24") of over £4.4 million, subject to audit confirmation, representing
growth of c.45% over the previous corresponding period (FY23: £3.0 million).
Closing cash at 30 June 2024 was £1.02 million compared to £1.28 million at
the end of June 2023.

The FY24 audited results are expected to be announced during November 2024.

The Company is also pleased to announce the appointment of Cavendish Capital
Markets Limited as its sole Corporate Broker with immediate effect.

Commentary from John Davis, Cordel CEO:

 

Projects and Customers

We began FY24 with stretching revenue growth targets and a clear aspiration to
improve our pipeline and win more new customers. We saw significant
opportunities to grow our US business and to consolidate our strong positions
in the UK and Australia.

Having started FY24 with 4 major customer contracts, we end it having doubled
that number with a further 4 significant new contracts won in the period -
these were Genesee & Wyoming Inc. in the USA,  Tren Maya in Mexico and
major national players in each of the Middle East and APAC. We expect 50% of
FY24 revenues will be generated from the Americas.

In addition, we have continued to deliver successfully for our marquee
clients: Amtrak in the US, Network Rail and Angel Trains in the UK and with
ARTC in Australia. In particular, with Amtrak, the combination of capturing
new data with our Cordel Rugged proprietary hardware and ingesting and
analysing legacy data leaves us in a very positive position heading into FY25.

Company

Following our successful fundraise in 2023, we have invested in organisational
growth across all our regions and in all disciplines within Cordel. We have
engaged new sales, sales support and delivery engineers in the USA, new sales
support and delivery resources in the UK and new development engineers and
delivery staff in Australia. We plan to continue to invest in the Group over
the next 12 months with further modest headcount increases planned in the
year. We have the operating model in place to allow us to maintain our revenue
growth trajectory and the Board continue to be optimistic in its strategy for
the Group to deliver on our target of breakeven in FY25.

Product Development

It has been an excellent year of technology and product development for
Cordel. We have seen the release, and market uptake, of the Cordel Rugged
sensor. We have achieved the vital 3204 approval with Network Rail and we have
matured and hardened our core use cases around clearances / gauging,
vegetation management, ballast profiling and overhead line equipment to a
point where scaling across multiple client contracts is now a reality.

Cordel Chairman, Ian Buddery, said: "The Company has achieved excellent growth
in the 2024 fiscal year, in particular in the USA where our advanced
capabilities have gained widespread recognition and market engagement is
strong. Our software is delivering industry-leading accuracy and processing
speed in the application of Artificial Intelligence to railway infrastructure
management, while our train-mounted sensors are capturing data around the
clock and we lead the world in track miles scanned and processed. The
investment phase now transitions to a target of profitable growth and a
continuing focus on new customer acquisition in FY25."

 

Enquiries:

 

 Cordel Group PLC                                               c/o Zeus
 Ian Buddery, Chairman

 John Davis, Chief Executive Officer

 Cavendish Capital Markets Limited, Broker                      +44 (0)20 3829 5000
 Marc Milmo / George Dollemore / Rory Sale (Corporate Finance)

 Sunila de Silva (ECM)

                                                                +44 (0)20 7409 3494

 Strand Hanson Limited, Nominated Adviser

 Richard Johnson / James Bellman

 

About Cordel

Cordel produces specialist hardware and software for capturing, analysing and
reporting on large datasets within the transport sector, employing
sophisticated artificial intelligence algorithms.

 

Further information on the Company is available at: www.cordel.ai
(http://www.cordel.ai/)

 

 

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