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RNS Number : 8014V  Nanoco Group PLC  19 August 2025

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 
                       19 August 2025

 

THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONTAINS INSIDE INFORMATION FOR THE PURPOSES OF ARTICLE 7 OF
THE MARKET ABUSE REGULATION (596/2014/EU) AS THE SAME HAS BEEN RETAINED IN UK
LAW AS AMENDED BY THE MARKET ABUSE (AMENDMENT) (EU EXIT) REGULATIONS (SI
2019/310) ("UK MAR").

Nanoco Group PLC

("Nanoco, the "Group", or the "Company")

 

Full Year Trading Update

&

Director Retirement

 

Nanoco Group plc (LSE: NANO), a world leader in the development and
manufacture of cadmium-free quantum dots and other specific nanomaterials
emanating from its technology platform, today provides the following year end
trading update ahead of the announcement of its final results for the year to
31 July 2025, which will be released in November 2025.

Overview

· Nanoco's core markets, along with the wider quantum dot markets, are
forecast to experience significant growth 1 ;

· We continue to make good progress on existing Joint Development Agreements
("JDAs"), with discussions ongoing regarding an extension to the JDA with one
of our Asian Chemical customers before the expiry of the existing contract,
which is due to complete in October 2025;

· Discussions are ongoing in relation to potential further JDAs with a
number of other companies, some of which are outside of historical Nanoco
markets;

·  The litigation against LG Display for alleged patent infringement has
been served, and is progressing as expected;

· We continue to assess strategic options for the Group's operating business
with a number of interested parties.

Financial Highlights

· Unaudited revenues are £7.6m, exceeding market forecasts 2  due to:

o  Additional services and product revenue of £0.1m;

o  Accelerated recognition of revenue related to the Samsung licence due to
the lapse of 13 patents during the year, which amounts to additional licence
revenue of £0.3m.

· Underlying unaudited adjusted EBITDA is moderately ahead of expectations
due to the increased revenue;

· Cash at year end of £14.0m, which is above market expectations due to
lower than anticipated litigation costs and positive working capital
variances;

· Gross monthly cash cost base remains consistent with previous
communications at £0.5m.

Dmitry Shashkov, Nanoco's CEO, commented:

"This has been an important year for Nanoco during which our business
development team has been fully focused on enhancing Nanoco's profile and
maximising our organic growth prospects. Consequently, we have a number of
promising, ongoing discussions with companies across several industry segments
regarding future product developments, some of which are in new areas for the
Group. In tandem, we remain in discussions with multiple parties as we assess
our strategic options to maximise value for shareholders, and look forward to
updating shareholders in due course."

Director Retirement and appointment of Director of Technology

Dr Nigel Pickett, founder and CTO of Nanoco Group, has confirmed his intention
to retire from Nanoco. The Company would like to thank Nigel for his
considerable contribution to Nanoco Group over the past 24 years, and wish him
well in the future. Nigel is stepping down from the Board today, and will
remain as an employee with the business until February 2026.

Nanoco is appointing an internal candidate, Dr. Ombretta Masala, as Nigel's
successor as Director of Technology, reporting directly to the CEO. Ombretta
has worked for Nanoco for 18 years, and has directly reported into Nigel for
all that period. The Director of Technology position is not a Board position,
and Dr Ombretta Masala will therefore not be appointed to the Board of Nanoco
Group plc.

Jalal Bagherli, Nanoco's Chairman, commented:

"I'd like to thank Nigel for his important contributions to Nanoco, having
been a pivotal player in the foundation of the business and the settlement we
achieved with Samsung. In Ombretta we have a very capable successor who has
significant experience in all aspects of Technology development and R&D
management, and she has the capabilities to drive Nanoco through what is an
exciting next chapter of commercial growth."

Issuance of shares

As previously announced, the non-executive directors agreed to defer a
percentage of their director fees until the earlier of the end of the
financial year or the completion of a transaction. Given the financial year
has now ended, Nanoco will shortly be issuing 935,778 ordinary shares to
satisfy this deferral. Shares in the EBT cannot be used to satisfy this charge
as it is a company liability.

 

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MAR

The information contained within this announcement is considered by the
Company to contain inside information for the purposes of UK MAR. Upon the
publication of this announcement via a Regulatory Information Service, this
inside information will be considered to be in the public domain.

The person responsible for arranging for the release of this announcement on
behalf of Nanoco is Liam Gray, Chief Financial Officer.

Nanoco Group plc:

Dmitry Shashkov, CEO
 
                    +44 (0)1928 761 404

Liam Gray, CFO & Company Secretary

 

Sodali & Co (Public
Relations)

Elly Williamson
 
                         +44 (0)79 3535 1934

Pete Lambie

Oliver Banks

Nanoco@sodali.com (mailto:Nanoco@sodali.com)

 

Cavendish Capital Markets Limited (Financial Adviser and Corporate Broker):

Ed Frisby / George Lawson (Corporate Finance)
                                                +44
(0) 20 7220 0500

Tim Redfern (Corporate Broking)

Jasper Berry (Sales)

 

CDX Advisors (Strategic Adviser):

Steven Foland
 
                                 +1 415 425 2224

Steve Month

Patrick Foley

 

Notes for editors:

About Nanoco Group plc

Nanoco (LSE: NANO) is a nanomaterial production and licensing group,
specialising in the production of its patented cadmium free quantum dots
(CFQD® materials) and other patented nanomaterials for use in the electronics
industries. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Runcorn, UK, Nanoco continues
to build out a world-class, patent-protected IP portfolio alongside its
existing scaled up production facilities for commercial orders.

Nanomaterials are materials with dimensions typically in the range 1 - 100 nm.
Nanomaterials have a range of useful properties, including optical and
electronic. Quantum dots are a subclass of nanomaterial that have
size-dependent optical and electronic properties. Within the sphere of quantum
dots, the Group exploits different characteristics of the quantum dots to
target different performance criteria that are attractive to specific markets
or end-user applications such as the Sensor, Electronics and Display markets.
Nanoco's CFQD® quantum dots are free of cadmium and other toxic heavy metals,
and can be tuned to emit light at different wavelengths across the visible and
infrared spectrum, rendering them useful for a wide range of display
applications. Nanoco's HEATWAVE® quantum dots can be tuned to absorb light at
different wavelengths across the near-infrared spectra, rendering them useful
for applications including cameras and image sensors.

Nanoco is listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange, holds the
LSE's Green Economy Mark, and trades under the ticker symbol NANO. For further
information please visit: www.nanocotechnologies.com
(http://www.nanocotechnologies.com)

 

 1  Yole, DSCC, IDTechEx

 2  The revenue and cash forecasts were £7.2m and £13.5m respectively, as
prepared by Cavendish

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