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RNS Number : 4442Z  Maintel Holdings PLC  07 August 2024

 

 

 

7 August 2024

 

 

Maintel Holdings Plc

(the "Maintel" or the "Company")

 

Trading Update and Notice of Results

Maintel Holdings Plc, a leading provider of cloud, network and security
managed communications services, issues the following trading update for the
six months ended 30 June 2024 (the "Period"), based on unaudited accounts.

 

The Company reported total revenue of £46.6 million, -1.8%, (H1 2023: £47.5
million), in line with expectations whilst EBITDA grew by 28.2% to £4.8
million (H1 2023: £3.7 million) driven largely by significant new wins within
our focus pillars and target growth markets, as well as the benefit of a new
streamlined business structure and price increases. The revenue performance,
although slightly down on the previous year, represents underlying growth, as
the first half of FY 2023 was flattered by the unwinding of the order book
built up through previous years that had been impacted by the global
semiconductor shortage.

 

During the Period Maintel continued to successfully execute its strategic
pivot away from a communications generalist to a specialist, focused across
three key strategic pillars: Unified Communications & Collaboration,
Customer Experience and Security & Connectivity.

 

Maintel has continued to deleverage its business, following a period of higher
restructuring exceptional cost and debt servicing charges, reporting a
reduction in Net Cash Debt at £15.6 million (H1 2023: £21.4 million),
further strengthening the Company's financial position.

 

As previously announced, a number of high value new contract wins, secured
during the first half, were closed later in the Period than first anticipated.
Subsequently, the Group expects that its performance will be second half
weighted as the benefit of those new multi-year contracts are realised from H2
2024. Whilst gross margins have been impacted, due to continued inflationary
pressures, these have been mitigated by last year's organisational restructure
and a continued focus on cost control, resulting in an improved Adjusted
EBITDA margin.

 

The Company remains focused on delivering higher margin new business
opportunities in its high growth segments moving forward and meeting
expectations for the current financial year.

 

The Company expects to announce its unaudited interim results for the six
months to 30 June 2024 on Thursday 19 September 2024.

 

This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of
EU Regulation 596/2014

 

For further information please contact:

 

 Maintel Holdings PLC                                      Tel: 0344 871 1122
 Dan Davies, Interim Chief Executive Officer

 Gab Pirona, Chief Financial Officer

 Cavendish (Nomad and Broker)                              Tel: 020 7220 0500
 Jonny Franklin-Adams / Hamish Waller (Corporate Finance)

 Sunila de Silva (Corporate Broking)

 Hudson Sandler (Financial PR)                             Tel: 020 7796 4133
 Wendy Baker / Nick Moore / Eloise Fleet                   m (mailto:maintel@hudsonsandler.com) aintel@hudsonsandler.com
                                                           (mailto:maintel@hudsonsandler.com)

 

 

Notes to editors

 

Maintel Holdings Plc ("Maintel") is a leading provider of cloud, networking
and security managed communications services to the UK public and private
sectors. Its services aim to help its clients operate at the highest level by
designing, implementing, innovating and managing their vital digital
communication solutions, with a focus across three strategic pillars:

 

·      Unified Communications and Collaboration - Making customers'
people more effective, efficient, and collaborative with UC&C technology.
The core focus of this pillar is the high growth Unified Communications as a
Service (UCaaS) market segment.

 

·      Customer Experience - Helping customers to acquire, delight and
retain their customers using customer experience technology. The core focus of
this pillar is the high growth Contact Centre as a Service (CCaaS) market
segment.

 

·      Security & Connectivity - Securely connecting customers'
people, partners and guests to their cloud platforms, applications, and data
with secure connectivity, and protecting their business from cyber threat. The
core focus of this pillar is the high growth Software Defined Wide Area
Networking (SD-WAN), Security Service Edge (SSE) and Cyber Managed Service
market segments.

 

Maintel combines technology from its strategic, global technology vendor and
carrier partners, with its own Intellectual Property, deployed from and
managed by its own platforms, to provide seamless solutions that its customers
can consume without the need for the internal skillset required to deploy and
manage the technology themselves.

 

Maintel serves the whole market, with a particular focus on key verticals of
Financial Services, Retail, Public Healthcare, Local Government, Higher
Education, Social Housing and Utilities. Its core market constitutes
organisations with between 250 and 10,000 employees in the private, public and
not-for-profit sectors with headquarters in the UK.

 

The Company was founded in 1991 and it listed on London's AIM market in 2004
(AIM: MAI).

 

 

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