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RNS Number : 3488M  Pelatro PLC  23 May 2022

23 May 2022

Pelatro Plc

 

("Pelatro" or the "Group")

 

Final Results

 

 

Pelatro Plc (AIM: PTRO), the precision marketing software specialist, is
pleased to announce today its audited results for the year ended 31 December
2021.

 

Financial highlights

 

·              Significant increase in revenue to $7.3m (2020:
$4.0m)

·              Recurring revenue of $4.8m (2020: $2.9m)

·              Adjusted EBITDA(*) of $2.8m (2020: $0.4m)

·              Adjusted loss per share of (0.4)¢ (2020:
(5.5)¢)

•              Equity placing to raise $4.3m to invest in our
business and repay debt

·              Gross cash as at 31 December 2021 $3.3m (2020:
$1.8m)

•              Trade receivables of $5.0m (2020: $3.5m); c.
$1.9m received from debtors since year end

 

Operational highlights

 

•              Three new customers bringing total to 23

•              Now processing data of over one billion
subscribers every day

•              With recent contracts a dominant presence in
Asia and increasingly in Africa

 

Outlook

 

·          Substantial order book and good visibility over revenues for
the coming year - ARR now c.80% of expected FY22 revenue

•              New business pipeline(#) of c. $17m

•              Further drive into fast growing mobile
advertising space

 

Richard Day, non-executive Chairman of Pelatro commented:

 

"We are delighted to be able to show in these results figures which are in
line with expectations; with solid growth in the revenue line of over 80% to
$7.3m from $4.0m the previous year, with the majority being of a recurring
revenue nature. The Group continues to trade in-line with expectations and our
recurring revenue base gives us good visibility over the coming year and,
together with our new business pipeline, gives us every confidence for the
rest of 2022 and beyond"

 

 

Presentation

 

A copy of the results presentation to be provided to investors and analysts
will be available on Pelatro's website in due course (www.pelatro.com
(http://www.pelatro.com) ).

 

For further information contact:

 

 Pelatro Plc
 Subash Menon, Managing Director                                 c/o finnCap
 Nic Hellyer, Chief Financial Officer

 finnCap Limited (Nominated Adviser and broker)                  +44 (0)20 7220 0500
 Carl Holmes/Kate Bannatyne/Milesh Hindocha (Corporate Finance)

 

* earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, amortisation, exceptional items
and share-based payments

 

** ARR is calculated by reference to the full annualised value of a contract;
the total ARR thus calculated may not all accrue in the 12 months following
due to (for example) implementation periods and other timing differences
between signing a contract and the "Go Live" or similar date

 

# Pipeline value is defined as expected license revenue or 3 x ARR, depending
on the nature of the contract

 

This announcement is released by Pelatro Plc and, prior to publication, the
information contained herein was deemed to constitute inside information under
the Market Abuse Regulations (EU) No. 596/2014. Such information is disclosed
in accordance with the Company's obligations under Article 17 of MAR. The
person who arranged for the release of this announcement on behalf of Pelatro
Plc was Nic Hellyer, CFO.

 

 

Notes to editors

 

The Pelatro Group was founded in March 2013 by Subash Menon and Sudeesh
Yezhuvath with the objective of offering specialised, enterprise class
software solutions for customer engagement principally to telcos who face a
series of challenges including market maturity, saturation and customer churn.

 

Pelatro provides its "mViva" platform for use by customers in B2C and B2B
applications and is well positioned in the Customer Engagement space. Our
technology orchestrates the digital journey of the customers of the telcos
through contextual, relevant and real time offers and loyalty programs across
multiple channels including websites, social media, apps and others.

 

For more information about Pelatro, visit www.pelatro.com

 

 

CHAIRMAN'S STATEMENT

 

Overview

 

The markets we serve have become increasingly sophisticated but the underlying
themes of providing good service with outstanding products and generating real
value for our customers continues to serve us and our customer base well. For
us this has resulted in a year of consolidating our position as a recurring
revenues service provider as well as winning new customers, ensuring we are
able to report healthy growth in our business. We will still provide our
software and services through a licence model if that is preferred by a
customer, but this is no longer the norm.

 

Operations

 

We started the year in January 2021 with our mViva platform being chosen by an
Asian telco for campaign management operations. This Asian telco is part of a
much larger international telco group and we have found this is an ideal way
to penetrate these larger diverse entities. We followed this with a Framework
Agreement later in the year with the parent company, so that its operating
companies in various jurisdictions can be serviced by Pelatro under one
agreement. Including these and despite the Covid situation, Pelatro won three
new telco customers in 2021, taking us to 23 customers in various countries
around the world. We have also been extending the breadth and quality of our
products and services we provide to our telco customers. Part of our growth
effort has been directed towards the non-telco space, where non-telco brand
campaigns and adverts can be sent to consumers via their mobile phones. We
have recruited a senior manager for this area and are building the team but
are proceeding cautiously in terms of new contracts to ensure that they are on
appropriate terms.

 

India has taken longer to emerge from the various Covid disruptions than the
UK and currently continues to remain cautious with regards to Covid. With our
main operations based in Bangalore, we have successfully managed home working
by our staff which has meant there has not been a significant effect on our
day-to day operations and we have been able to continue to provide excellent
levels of service to our customers. This included our five year Managed
Services contract which went live with our largest customer in India. The
implementation was smooth and successful, with over 400 million subscribers
being transferred over to the new system.

 

The numbers of staff attending our offices safely for work has been at the 30%
level for some time now and we expect this gradually to grow over the coming
months. Our executive team have also been prevented from travelling overseas,
but air travel has also opened up and they are now able to meet our
international customer base and pursue new opportunities in person.

 

Non telco operations

 

Pelatro has been working on entering non telco sectors for the past nine
months. We have initially focused on banks and fintech companies as sectors,
with over 50 potential customers being targeted in India, as a geographic
starting point. Through these extensive interactions over these months, it has
become amply clear that these enterprises are keen on customer journey
mapping, customer journey analytics and customer journey orchestration. This
is a very new product set to these businesses but a number have expressed
interest in exploring an engagement. Given our extensive experience in the
telco sector our product mViva has very strong capabilities with respect to
customer journey orchestration and on that basis we are confident of winning
our first customer in this space during 2022.

 

We expect to undertake further recruitment to service this space when our
initial customer engagements begin to mature and the business model develops
further. The extent of this recruitment will depend on the potential
geographic and sector breadth of the roll out.

 

 

Other developments

 

In June, we took the opportunity to raise approximately £3.3m through an
equity placing of new shares with new and existing shareholders to help grow
our sales and marketing as well as to repay debt and strengthen the Group's
balance sheet. In December, our CFO Nic Hellyer, who had been with Pelatro for
over four years on a part-time basis, moved to a full-time role with us.

 

We continue to closely monitor the situation in Ukraine, the response of
international governments and any potential impact on the Group. Pelatro has a
small development and support team in Russia, representing around 13% of the
Group's cash cost base. This team can and does operate remotely with no
requirement for travel, and is currently fully operational. The Group has no
revenue from Russia or any other related sanctioned jurisdiction.

 

Outlook

 

Against this backdrop, we are delighted to be able to show in these results
figures which are in line with expectations; with solid growth in the revenue
line of over 80% to $7.3m from $4.0m the previous year, with the majority
being of a recurring revenue nature. The Group also continues to trade in-line
with expectations and our recurring revenue base gives us good visibility over
the coming year and, together with our new business pipeline, gives us every
confidence for the rest of 2022 and beyond.

 

 

 

Richard Day

Chairman

 

 

 

 

 

MANAGING DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT

 

Change, as they say, is the only constant phenomenon. Does this mean change
can only be involuntary and accidental? Absolutely not. The type of change
that people and organisations benefit from are those that are brought about by
design. Those that involve strategizing and meticulous execution -
particularly when it comes to a company. Your company went through a
well-orchestrated change during 2019 and 2020 and the results came in during
2021.

 

The Orchestrated Change

 

When we started the process in 2019, we had clearly articulated both the goal
and the path to it. The objective was to shift our revenue model from a
one-time license fee model to recurring and/or repeating revenue, with an
emphasis on recurring. Given that recurring revenue is now a sustainable 70%
or so of revenue we believe we have achieved that goal. Furthermore, from a
low of 20% at the time of the IPO in 2017, recurring and repeating business
has gone up to around 90%, thereby significantly increasing the predictability
and stability of the revenue stream, with the visibility quite high at the
start of the year itself, with a key element of this being the quantum of
annual recurring revenue ("ARR") as we win new contracts. We believe that we
have now reached a stable level with respect to the share of these revenue
streams and that augurs well for the business going forward.

 

Growing Customer Base

 

Over the years, we have been successful in adding customers. While this was
impacted by Covid-19, we added three new customers in 2021 taking our tally to
23 customers in 20 countries. Some of the key statistics are given below.

 

•              Processing data of over one billion subscribers
every day

•              Processing over 60 billion transactions per day,
in real time, in one customer site alone

•              Executing over 15,000 campaigns every day

•              Present in 20 countries

 

Scale is a critical element for any enterprise software and for us that has
now been well established. From a geographical perspective, we now have a
dominant presence in Asia and Africa. Leveraging these achievements, we are
now spreading into Europe.

 

Going Above and Beyond

 

Our customers are operating in a highly competitive market wherein they are
being squeezed by two strong forces - reducing revenue per customer and
increasing churn. Between these two debilitating factors, the telcos are
finding it extremely difficult to increase revenue and margin. In this tough
situation, vendors need to shoulder more responsibilities and become true
partners. Pelatro is committed to this vision. Over the past few years, we
have built extensive capabilities in the following areas.

 

•              Development of campaign strategy

•              Campaign consultancy

•              Campaign execution

•              Platform operation

•              Reporting

 

With these enhanced capabilities, we help our customers to effectively use our
solution to increase revenue and reduce churn. In many instances some of
Pelatro's revenue is linked to performance thereby ensuring that interests are
aligned with our customers. Thus, we share the risk perceived by our customers
while helping them to meet their objectives to the fullest extent possible.

 

We have been on this specific journey for the past three years and are
convinced that this is the way forward. Our customers are increasingly seeing
us as partners and not mere vendors. They are highly appreciative of the value
added by Pelatro with respect to both the software solution and the overall
operations. Such engagements are flourishing on the basis of actual
incremental revenue generated by Pelatro over the past few years and a
comparison of the same with the status within the telcos prior to that period,
and the uplift brought about by Pelatro is compelling enough for the telcos to
increasingly rely on us for operations in the form of managed services.

 

As noted in the Chairman's statement we have also begun the journey similarly
to add value to non-telco customers. We will invest in this side of the
business prudently and, while it is early days, we expect these engagements to
further increase our revenue in the years to come.

 

I take this opportunity to thank all of you and look forward to your continued
support in our effort to go above and beyond.

 

 

 

Subash Menon

Managing Director, CEO and Co-Founder

 

 

FINANCIAL REVIEW

 

Income Statement

 

Revenue

 

Out of our total revenue of $7.27m, approximately $4.79m (66%) arose from
recurring revenue (2020: $2.85m), comprising some $3.46m from managed service
and gain share contracts and the balance from post-contract support. A further
$1.96m came from change requests (2020: $0.43m) which are not contractually
"recurring" but tend to provide "repeat" income as our customers' usage of the
product evolves. Accordingly, over 90% of revenue was "repeating" in nature,
compared to just over 80% in 2020.

 

This increase reflects the push by the Group over the last few years into
recurring revenue contracts which initially resulted in a fall in revenue as
"one off" license revenues were replaced by sustainable longer-term contracts.
Whilst the coronavirus pandemic over the last two years had a relatively
limited impact on high-level decision making at our customers, it did
nonetheless slow our marketing efforts which, for high-level enterprise
software such as ours, do require some level of face-to-face contact. Despite
this, three new customers were added during the year; this, together with the
number of recurring revenue customers, further reduced customer concentration
with now only two customers accounting for more than 10% of revenue.

 

Cost of sales and overheads

 

Cost of sales increased by 29% to $2.2m (2020: $1.7m). These costs comprise
principally (i) the direct salary costs of providing software support and
maintenance, professional services and consultancy; (ii) expensed customer
implementation; (iii) third-party software maintenance and licensing costs;
and (iv) sales commissions. The increase in 2021 results almost entirely from
the full year effect of staff taken on to service managed service and similar
contracts commenced in 2020.

 

Pre-exceptional overheads (excluding depreciation and amortisation) increased
to $2.3m (2020: $1.9m), reflecting the increase in business activity and hence
people costs, plus additional efforts in sales and marketing, notably
establishing the Group presence via social media. Travel costs were maintained
at a relatively low level given the ongoing restrictions on international
travel and the Group's success in enabling support and implementation
functions remotely.

 

Profitability

 

Adjusted EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, amortisation and
exceptional items, as adjusted for the effect of certain non-recurring or
exceptional items) rose strongly by over 6x in the year to $2.81m (2020:
$0.44m). After taking into account net finance costs and depreciation and
amortisation (including c. $0.7m of acquisition-related amortisation) loss
before tax was $(0.67)m (2020: loss of $(2.22)m before exceptional items).

 

Adjusted loss per share was (0.4)¢ (2020: loss of (5.5)¢), and reported loss
per share was (2.1)¢ (2020: loss (7.2)¢).

 

 

 

Statement of Financial Position

 

Intangible assets

 

Capitalised development costs and patents

 

Capitalised development costs reduced slightly to $2.6m (2020: $2.9m)
reflecting a reduction in direct costs attributable to software development,
particularly in Nizhny Novgorod. Amounts capitalised during the year included
investments in the mViva Contextual Marketing Platform ("CMP") which was
developed from v.6.1 to v.6.2, the Unified Communication management
("UCM")/Link product from 12.1 to 13.0 and various new modules which add to
and enhance the core product suite. The carrying value of these software
assets together with the carrying value of software assets capitalised in
previous periods was reviewed for impairment at the balance sheet date and no
impairment was required.

 

The Group continues to protect its IP by registering patents when relevant and
spent a further $30,000 on patent development over the year. Net of
amortisation, the net book value of intangible assets relating to development
costs and patents in the statement of financial position is approximately
$6.4m (2020: $5.9m).

 

Property, plant and equipment

 

Expenditure on property, plant and equipment was minimal at $88,000,
principally relating to IT and peripheral equipment. This compares to $0.9m in
2020 which related mainly to IT equipment placed on site at a customer's
premises to implement the related managed services contract.

 

Depreciation in the year amounted to $0.30m (excluding amounts relating to
Right-to-Use assets now recognised under IFRS 16, and gross of amounts
capitalised as intangible assets) (2020: $0.20m). The increase largely
reflects depreciation now charged on the customer site IT assets referred to
above. The aggregate net book value of property, plant and equipment fell
accordingly from $1.22m to $0.98m.

 

Right of use assets

 

The Group recognises certain long-term leases under IFRS 16 as "right of use"
assets. The reduction in the overall value of the right of use assets from
$0.31m in 2020 to $0.24m in 2021, is net of depreciation of $0.17m and capital
additions of $0.1m. These additions do not reflect new leases but instead the
capitalised value of expected extensions to current leases. The Group has had
its office accommodation requirements (principally in Bangalore) under review
for some time, however, the COVID pandemic and associated uncertainty had put
such considerations on hold, but the Group now believes that a significant
office consolidation will take place by the beginning of 2023.

 

 

Trade receivables and contract assets

 

Trade receivables

 

At 31 December 2021 total trade receivables (i.e. including long-term
receivables) stood at $4.96m (2020: $3.48m). This figure includes:

 

(a) a receivable of $0.64m the payment of which is subject to a government
approval process in the customer's jurisdiction. This process generally leads
to a substantial delay to the payment of the amount outstanding - the payment
concerned was originally expected in Q4 2021; however, the delay was
compounded by a change to the underlying procedure which has resulted in the
payment now being expected in Q2 2022. This delay is purely procedural and no
impairment of the underlying amount is expected; and

 

(b) a receivable of $1.14m relating to an entire license contract which,
though live with the customer, was pending final approval. This has taken
place post the year end and $0.46m of the debt has been received to date.

 

In addition to the $0.46m, just under $1.5m has been received since the year
end to date, i.e. a total of $1.9m.

 

Contract assets

 

Contract assets are recognised relating to support and maintenance revenue and
license fees as invoices are raised in arrears of the revenue recognition
relating to the services being provided. In addition, contract assets include
contract fulfilment assets relating to sales commission provisions, the cost
of which is amortised over the life of the corresponding contract.

 

Short-term contract assets deriving from revenue (i.e. those which are
expected to reverse in less than one year) decreased to $0.38m (2020: $0.46m),
arising from one license contract signed in the year which had invoicing terms
which differed significantly from the underlying performance obligations.
Long-term contract assets deriving from revenue (i.e. those which are expected
to reverse after more than one year) decreased to $0.23m (2020: $0.31m),
reflecting the invoicing profile of various products and services, principally
on PCS.

 

Fulfilment assets included in contract assets total $0.18m (2020: $0.15m) in
respect of short-term assets (representing costs directly relating to certain
contracts to be recognised in profit and loss in the next 12 months); and
$0.38m (2020: $0.44m) in respect of long-term assets (representing costs
directly relating to certain contracts to be recognised in profit and loss
after one year). These assets largely reflect sales commissions first
contracted in 2020.

 

Trade and other payables, provisions and contract liabilities

 

Trade and other payables

 

At the year end, short-term trade payables stood at $0.15m (2020: $0.81m), the
reduction being due entirely to an exceptional amount due in respect of sales
commissions payable at the end of 2020 which were paid in 2021. Other
short-term payables of $0.45m (2020: $0.28m), were due principally to amounts
due in respect of staff bonuses and the balance for sundry creditors.

 

Provisions

 

Under the Indian Payment of Gratuity Act 1972, employees in the Group's Indian
subsidiary with more than 5 years' service are eligible for the payment of a
"gratuity" upon certain end of employment events - short-term provisions
include amounts estimated in respect of such gratuity payments, as well as
carried over leave payments and sundry expense provisions, in total $37,000
(2020: $79,000). The tax provision fell from $84,000 to $35,000 mainly due to
an increase in the amount of tax deducted at source from our Indian subsidiary
which reduced the year end tax creditor.

 

Long-term provisions of $0.20m (2020: $0.17m) relate solely to amounts
estimated in respect of leave encashment and gratuity payments. Further
details of such provisions are given in Note 26.

 

Contract liabilities

 

Contract liabilities represent customer payments received in advance of
satisfying performance obligations, which are expected to be recognised as
revenue in 2022 and beyond. Short-term contract liabilities remained broadly
stable at $0.47m (2020: $0.50m) and long-term contract liabilities increased
slightly to $0.28m (2020: $0.21m).

 

 

Statement of Cash Flows

 

Cash flow and financing

 

Cash generated by operations before tax payments amounted to $1.27m (2020:
$2.60m), the reduction largely resulting from the effect of the trade
receivables which were still outstanding at the year end referred to above and
the payment of the commissions referred to in the note on creditors above.

 

In July we raised c. $4.3m net of expenses by way of an equity placing. This
has supported the Group's expansion, both in terms of recruitment (in
particular in sales), the repayment of debt (some $0.75m) and working capital
generally.

 

The Group had closing gross cash of $3.3m (2020: $1.8m). Borrowings amounted
to $0.75m (2020: $1.4m) excluding amounts relating to lease liabilities. These
borrowings are to be repaid on an Equal Monthly Instalment ("EMI") basis over
the next 2-5 years.

 

 

Summary

 

Our performance this year reflects the work done over the last few years in
transitioning the Group towards long-term managed service contracts
underpinned by a solid base of support revenue, and a more normal year of
change request income. The Group starts the year with a material proportion of
the expected total revenue for the year underpinned by recurring revenue
already contracted and repeating revenue (i.e. change requests) under purchase
orders. The Board therefore remains optimistic that the Group is on track to
deliver a strong year of growth.

 

 

 

Nic Hellyer

Chief Financial Officer

 

 

Group Statement of Comprehensive
Income

For the year ended 31 December 2021

 

                                                                            2021       2020
                                                                      Note  $'000      $'000
                                                                            (audited)  (audited)

 Revenue                                                              5     7,266      4,020
 Cost of sales and provision of services                                    (2,206)    (1,710)
                                                                            _______    _______
 Gross profit                                                               5,060      2,310

 Administrative expenses                                              6     (4,831)    (3,647)
                                                                            _______    _______
 Adjusted operating profit/(loss)                                           229        (1,337)
 Exceptional items                                                    7     -          149
 Amortisation of acquisition-related intangibles                      18    (686)      (686)
 Share-based payments                                                 11    (32)       (32)
                                                                            _______    _______
 Operating (loss)                                                           (489)      (1,906)

 Finance income                                                       12    44         64
 Finance expense                                                      13    (221)      (240)
                                                                            _______    _______
 (Loss) before taxation                                                     (666)      (2,082)
 Income tax expense                                                   14    (181)      (375)
                                                                            _______    _______
 (LOSS) FOR THE YEAR ATTRIBUTABLE TO OWNERS OF THE PARENT                   (847)      (2,457)

 Other comprehensive income/(expense):
 Items that may be reclassified subsequently to profit or loss:
 Exchange differences on translation of foreign operations                  (147)      31
 Items that will not subsequently be reclassified to profit or loss:
 Exchange differences on translation of equity balances                     50         (55)
                                                                            _______    _______
 Other comprehensive income, net of tax                                     (97)       (24)

 TOTAL COMPREHENSIVE INCOME FOR THE YEAR                                    (944)      (2,481)

 Earnings per share
 Attributable to the owners of the Pelatro Group (basic and diluted)  15    (2.1)¢     (7.2)¢

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Group Statement of Financial
Position

For the year ended 31 December 2021

 

                                                                                         2021       2020
                                                                         Note            $'000      $'000
                                                                                         (audited)  (audited)
 Assets
 Non-current assets
 Intangible assets                                                       18              11,453     11,649
 Tangible assets                                                         19              982        1,218
 Right-of-use assets                                                     20              240        308
 Deferred tax assets                                                                     14         16
 Contract assets                                                         21              606        751
 Trade receivables                                                       21              163        149
                                                                                         _______    _______
                                                                                         13,458     14,091
 Current assets
 Contract assets                                                         21              555        609
 Trade receivables                                                       21              4,793      3,335
 Other assets                                                            22              315        485
 Cash and cash equivalents                                                               3,331      1,805
                                                                                         _______    _______
                                                                                         8,994      6,234

 TOTAL ASSETS                                                                            22,452     20,325

 Liabilities
 Non-current liabilities
 Borrowings                                                              23              608        1,196
 Lease liabilities                                                       24              80         172
 Contract liabilities                                                    25              278        207
 Long-term provisions                                                    26              202        173
                                                                                         _______    _______
                                                                                         1,168      1,748
 Current liabilities
 Short term borrowings                                                   23              136        244
 Lease liabilities                                                       24              188        174
 Trade and other payables                                                25              603        1,093
 Contract liabilities                                                    25              469        495
 Provisions                                                              26              72         163
                                                                                         _______    _______
                                                                                         1,468      2,169

 TOTAL LIABILITIES                                                                       2,636      3,917

 NET ASSETS                                                                              19,816     16,408

 Issued share capital and reserves attributable to owners of the parent
 Share capital                                                           27              1,501      1,212
 Share premium                                                           27              18,046     14,045
 Other reserves                                                                          (639)      (583)
 Retained earnings                                                                       908        1,734
                                                                                         _______    _______
 TOTAL EQUITY                                                                            19,816     16,408

 

 

Group Statement of Cash Flows

For the year ended 31 December 2021

                                                                           2021       2020
                                                                           $'000      $'000
                                                                           (audited)  (audited)
 Cash flows from operating activities
 Profit/(loss) for the year                                                (847)      (2,457)
 Adjustments for:
 Income tax expense recognised in profit or loss                           181        375
 Finance income                                                            (44)       (20)
 Finance costs                                                             221        232
 Depreciation of tangible non-current assets                               467        366
 Profit on disposal of fixed assets                                        (10)       (10)
 Amortisation of intangible non-current assets                             2,814      2,122
 Fair value adjustment on contingent consideration                         -          (149)
 Share-based payments                                                      32         32
 Foreign exchange gains/(losses)                                           9          25
                                                                           _______    _______
 Operating cash flows before movements in working capital                  2,823      516
 (Increase)/decrease in trade and other receivables                        (1,271)    2,229
 (Increase) in contract assets                                             206        (544)
 Increase in trade and other payables                                      (532)      676
 Increase/(decrease) in contract liabilities                               45         (276)
                                                                           _______    _______
 Cash generated from operating activities                                  1,271      2,601

 Income tax paid                                                           (258)      (339)
                                                                           _______    _______
 Net cash generated from operating activities                              1,013      2,262

 Cash flows from investing activities
 Development of intangible assets                                          (2,540)    (2,807)
 Purchase of intangible assets                                             (42)       (9)
 Acquisition of property, plant and equipment                              (88)       (902)
 Payment of earn out consideration relating to prior period acquisition    -          (851)
                                                                           _______    _______
 Net cash used in investing activities                                     (2,670)    (4,569)

 Cash flows from financing activities
 Proceeds from issue of ordinary shares, net of issue costs                4,290      2,589
 Proceeds from borrowings                                                  70         1,753
 Repayment of borrowings                                                   (748)      (919)
 Repayments of principal on lease liabilities                              (173)      (171)
 Interest received                                                         44         20
 Interest paid                                                             (203)      (185)
 Interest expense on lease liabilities                                     (25)       (16)
                                                                           _______    _______
 Net cash generated by/(used in) financing activities                      3,255      3,071

 Net increase/(decrease) in cash and cash equivalents                      1,598      764
 Foreign exchange differences                                              (72)       (60)
 Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period                          1,805      1,101
                                                                           _______    _______
 Cash and cash equivalents at end of period                                3,331      1,805

 

 

Group Statement of Changes in
Equity

For the year ended 31 December 2021

 

                                                   Share capital  Share premium  Exchange reserve  Merger reserve  Share-based payments reserve  Retained profits      Total
                                                   $'000          $'000          $'000             $'000           $'000                         $'000                 $'000
 Balance at 1 January 2020 as previously reported  1,065          11,603         (216)             (527)           100                           4,177                 16,202
 (Loss) after taxation for the period              -              -              -                 -               -                             (2,457)               (2,457)
 Share-based payments                              -              -              -                 -               98                            -                     98
 Transfer on lapse of share options                                                                                (14)                          14                    -
 Other comprehensive income:
 Exchange differences                              -              -              (24)              -               -                             -                     (24)
 Transactions with owners:
 Shares issued by Pelatro Plc for cash             147            2,620          -                 -               -                             -                     2,767
 Issue costs                                       -              (178)          -                 -               -                             -                     (178)
                                                   _____          _____          _____             _____           _____                         _____                 _____
 Balance at 31 December 2020                       1,212          14,045         (240)             (527)           184                           1,734                 16,408
 (Loss) after taxation for the period              -              -              -                 -               -                             (847)                 (847)
 Share-based payments                              -              -              -                 -               62                            -                     62
 Transfer on lapse of share options                                                                                (21)                          21                    -
 Other comprehensive income:
 Exchange differences                              -              -              (97)              -               -                             -                     (97)
 Transactions with owners:
 Shares issued by Pelatro Plc for cash             289            4,334          -                 -               -                             -                     4,623
 Issue costs                                       -              (333)          -                 -               -                             -                     (333)
                                                   _____          _____          _____             _____           _____                         _____                 _____
 Balance at 31 December 2021                       1,501          18,046         (337)             (527)           225                           908                   19,816

 

 

 

 

Notes

For the year ended 31 December 2021

 

As this summary announcement is extracted from the full financial statements,
certain references may refer to notes which are not included herein, and the
Notes section is not reproduced in full.

 

5          Revenue and segmental analysis

 

Revenue by type

 

 At 31 December                         2021     2020
                                        $'000    $'000
 Recurring software sales and services  3,456    1,528
 Maintenance and support                1,334    1,323
                                        _______  _______
 Total recurring revenues               4,790    2,851
 Change requests                        1,958    426
                                        _______  _______
 Total repeating revenues               6,748    3,277
 Software - new licenses                498      698
 Consulting                             20       45
                                        _______  _______
                                        7,266    4,020

 

Revenue by geography

 

The Group recognises revenue in seven geographical regions based on the
location of customers, as set out in the following table:

 

 At 31 December      2021     2020
                     $'000    $'000

 Caribbean           130      145
 Central Asia        443      175
 Eastern Europe      426      168
 North Africa        104      64
 South Asia          2,656    1,096
 South East Asia     3,407    2,372
 Sub-Saharan Africa  100      -
                     _______  _______
                     7,266    4,020

 

Customer concentration

 

The Group has two customers representing individually over 10% of revenue each
and in aggregate approximately 38% of total revenue at $2.73m (2020: three
customers, approximately 53% of total revenue at $2.14m). The two customers
accounted for revenue of $1.63m and $1.10m (2020: $0.89m, $0.63m and $0.62m).

 

Remaining performance obligations

 

There are certain software support, professional service, maintenance and
licences contracts that have been entered into for which both:

 

•              the original contract period was greater than 12
months; and

 

•              the Group's right to consideration does not
correspond directly with performance.

 

The amount of revenue that will be recognised in future periods on these
contracts when those remaining performance obligations will be satisfied is
shown below.

                                                                      Year to 31 December
                                                                      2022     2023     2024-7
                                                                      $'000    $'000    $'000
 Revenue expected to be recognised on software and service contracts  449      314      320

 

Comparative figures for the year ended 31 December 2020 were as follows:

                                                                      Year to 31 December
                                                                      2021     2022     2023-6
                                                                      $'000    $'000    $'000
 Revenue expected to be recognised on software and service contracts  579      394      442

 

Costs of obtaining and fulfilling contracts of $0.12m have been capitalised in
2021 (net of amortisation against revenue recognised in respect of those
contracts) (2020: $0.59m).

 

 

6          Operating expenses

 

Profit for the year has been arrived at after charging:

                                                   2021   2020
                                                   $'000  $'000

 Amortisation of intangible non-current assets     2,814  2,122
 Depreciation of tangible non-current assets       413    298
 (Profit)/loss on disposal of Right to Use assets  (10)   (10)
 Staff costs (see note 9)                          2,865  1,787
 Auditor's remuneration (see note 8)               47     41
 Short-term lease expenses                         35     23
 Realised foreign exchange (gains)/losses          17     3

 

 

7          Non-GAAP profit measures and exceptional items

 

Reconciliation of operating profit to adjusted earnings before interest,
taxation, depreciation and amortisation ("EBITDA")

 

 Year to 31 December                             2021     2020
                                                 $'000    $'000

 Operating profit/(loss)                         (489)    (1,906)
 Adjusted for:
 Amortisation and depreciation                   3,227    2,420
                                                 _______  _______
 EBITDA                                          2,738    514
 Revenue recognised as interest under IFRS 15    38       44
 Expensed share-based payments                   32       32
 Exceptional items:
  - gain on adjustment of contingent liability   -        (149)
                                                 _______  _______
 Adjusted EBITDA                                 2,808    441

 

The calculation of adjusted earnings per share is shown in Note 15.

 

 

8          Auditor's remuneration

 

 Year to 31 December                               2021     2020
                                                   $'000    $'000
 Audit of the financial statements of Pelatro Plc  47       41
 Amounts receivable by auditor in respect of:
 Tax compliance                                    1        4
                                                   _______  _______
                                                   48       45

 

 

9          Staff costs

 

 Year to 31 December                             2021                2020
                                                 $'000               $'000

 Wages and salaries                                     5,256                    4,410
 Social security contributions                   80                  83
 Less: amounts capitalised as intangible assets  (2,471)             (2,706)
                                                 _______             _______
                                                 2,865               1,787

 

The average number of persons employed by the Company during the period was:

 

 Year to 31 December   2021     2020

 Sales                 3        4
 Software development  98       96
 Support               113      48
 Marketing             3        3
 Administration        18       15
                       _______  _______
                       235      166

 

 

 

10        Directors' remuneration and transactions

 

The Directors' emoluments in the year ended 31 December 2021 were:

 

                          Basic    Bonus   Benefits  Share-based payments  Pension

                          salary           in kind                                  Total    Total
                          2021     2021    2021      2021                  2021     2021     2020
                          $'000    $'000   $'000     $'000                 $'000    $'000    $'000
 Executive Directors
 N. Hellyer               87       21      10        1                     3        122      137
 S. Menon                 201      57      21        -                     -        279      220
 S. Yezhuvath             201      57      14        -                     -        272      207
 Non-Executive Directors
 R. Day                   66       -       -         -                     2        68       72
 P. Verkade               41       -       -         -                     -        41       39
                          _______  ______  ______    ______                _______  _______  _______
                          596      135     45        1                     5        782      675

 

The remuneration of the executive Directors is decided by the Remuneration
Committee. Save as disclosed above no Director had a material interest in any
contract of significance with the Group in either year.

 

 

11        Share-based payments

 

A charge of $32,000 (net of amounts capitalised of $30,000) (2020: $32,000)
has been recognised during the year for share-based payments over the vesting
period. This share-based payment expense comprises the charge in the current
period relating to the expensing of the fair value of (a) 1,323,500 options
granted under the Plan (net of lapsed or forfeited options) and (b) the 33,000
options (net of lapses) issued at the time of the Company' IPO.

 

Movements in the number of share options outstanding and their related
weighted average exercise prices are as follows:

 

                                           No. of options        Weighted average exercise price
                                           2021       2020       2021              2020
 Outstanding at the beginning of the year  1,505,500  1,631,500  72.7p             72.7p
 Granted during the year                   -          -          -                 -
 Forfeited/cancelled during the year       (149,000)  (126,000)  73.0p             73.0p
                                           _______    _______
 Outstanding at the end of the year        1,356,500  1,505,500  72.7p             72.7p

 

Outstanding options are exercisable at prices between 62.5p and 73p and have a
weighted average remaining contractual life of 6.8 years.

 

 

12        Finance income

 

                                                                                 2021     2020
                                                                                 $'000    $'000

 Interest receivable on interest-bearing deposits                                6        20
 Notional interest accruing on contracts with a significant financing component  38       44
                                                                                 _______  _______
 Total finance income                                                            44       64

 

 

13        Finance expense

 

                                                                            2021     2020
                                                                            $'000    $'000

 Interest and finance charges paid or payable on borrowings                 202      198
 Interest on lease liabilities under IFRS 16                                25       31
 Less: amounts capitalised as intangible assets                             (6)      (14)
 Acquisition-related financing expense (unwinding of discount on financial  -        25
 liabilities)
                                                                            _______  _______
 Total finance expense                                                      221      240

 

An element of interest on lease liabilities is deemed to be directly
attributable overheads for the purposes of capitalising relevant expenditure
on developing intangible assets (see Note 18).

 

 

14        Taxation

 

Tax on profit on ordinary activities

 

 Year to 31 December                                                2021     2020
                                                                    $'000    $'000
 Current tax
 UK corporation tax charge/(credit) on profit for the current year  -        -
 Overseas income tax charge/(credit)                                232      321
 Adjustments in respect of prior periods                            (42)     (18)
                                                                    _______  _______
 Total current income tax                                           190      303

 Deferred tax
 Reversal/(recognition) of deferred tax asset                       (9)      72
                                                                    _______  _______
 Total deferred income tax                                          (9)      72

 Total income tax expense recognised in the year                    181      375

 

 

Deferred tax

Recognised deferred tax asset

                                2021     2020
                                $'000    $'000

 At 1 January 2021              16       63
 Recognised in profit and loss  (2)      (47)
                                _______  _______
 At 31 December 2021            14       16

 Comprising:
 Tax losses                     14       16
                                _______  _______
                                14       16

 

Deferred income tax assets have only been recognised to the extent that it is
considered probable that they can be recovered against future taxable profits
based on profit forecasts for the foreseeable future. The deferred income tax
assets at 31 December 2021 above are expected to be utilised in the next two
years.

 

Recognised deferred tax liability

                                2021     2020
                                $'000    $'000

 At 1 January 2021              24       -
 Recognised in profit and loss  (11)     24
                                _______  _______
 At 31 December 2021            13       24

 Comprising:
 Timing differences             13       24
                                _______  _______
                                13       24

 

 

15        Earnings

 

Reported earnings per share

 

Basic earnings per share ("EPS") amounts are calculated by dividing net profit
or loss for the year attributable to owners of the Company by the weighted
average number of ordinary shares outstanding during the year.

 

The Group has one category of security potentially dilutive to ordinary shares
in issue, being those share options granted to employees where the exercise
price (plus the remaining expected charge to profit under IFRS 2) is less than
the average price of the Company's ordinary shares during the period in issue.
No dilution arose in the year as the exercise price was above the average
share price for the year.

 

The following reflects the earnings and share data used in the basic earnings
per share computations:

 

 Year to 31 December                                                            2021        2020
                                                                                $'000       $'000
 Profit/(loss) attributable to equity holders of the parent:
 Profit/(loss) attributable to ordinary equity holders of the parent for basic  (847)       (2,457)
 earnings

 Weighted average number of ordinary shares in issue                            41,153,537  34,136,617

 Basic earnings/(loss) per share attributable to shareholders                   (2.1)¢      (7.2)¢

 

Adjusted earnings per share

 

Adjusted earnings per share is calculated as follows:

                                                                                2021        2020
                                                                                $'000       $'000
 Profit/(loss) attributable to ordinary equity holders of the parent for basic  (847)       (2,457)
 earnings
 Adjusting items:
  - exceptional items (see note 7}                                              -           (149)
  - share-based payments                                                        32          32
  - finance expense on liabilities relating to contingent consideration         -           25
 - amortisation of acquisition-related intangibles                              686         686
  - prior year adjustments to tax charge                                        (42)        (18)
                                                                                _______     _______
 Adjusted earnings attributable to owners of the Parent                         (171)       (1,881)

 Weighted number of ordinary shares in issue                                    41,153,537  34,136,617

 Adjusted earnings/(loss) per share attributable to shareholders                (0.4)¢      (5.5)¢

 

 

18        Intangible assets

 

Intangible assets comprise capitalised development costs (in relation to
internally generated software and software acquired through business
combinations), software acquired from third parties for use in the business,
patents, customer relationships and goodwill.

 

An analysis of goodwill and other intangible assets is as follows:

 

 2021                 Development costs  Third party software  Patents  Customer relationships  Goodwill  Total

                      $'000              $'000                 $'000    $'000                   $'000     $'000
 Cost
 At 1 January 2021    9,263              110                   27       6,862                   470       16,732
 Additions            2,576              12                    30       -                       -         2,618
 Foreign exchange     -                  (2)                   -        -                       -         (2)
                      _______            _______               _______  _______                 _______   _______
 At 31 December 2021  11,839             120                   57       6,862                   470       19,348

 Amortisation
 At 1 January 2021    (3,373)            (52)                  -        (1,658)                 -         (5,083)
 Charge for the year  (2,105)            (21)                  (2)      (686)                   -         (2,814)
 Foreign exchange     -                  2                     -        -                       -         2
                      _______            _______               _______  _______                 _______   _______
 At 31 December 2021  (5,478)            (71)                  (2)      (2,344)                 -         (7,895)

 Net carrying amount
 At 31 December 2021  6,361              49                    55       4,518                   470       11,453

 At 31 December 2020  5,890              58                    27       5,204                   470       11,649

 

 

 2020                 Development costs  Third party software  Patents  Customer relationships  Goodwill  Total

                      $'000              $'000                 $'000    $'000                   $'000     $'000
 Cost
 At 1 January 2020    6,391              108                   23       6,862                   470       13,854
 Additions            2,872              4                     4        -                       -         2,880
 Foreign exchange     -                  (2)                   -        -                       -         (2)
                      _______            _______               _______  _______                 _______   _______
 At 31 December 2020  9,263              110                   27       6,862                   470       16,732

 Amortisation
 At 1 January 2020    (1,957)            (34)                  -        (972)                   -         (2,963)
 Charge for the year  (1,416)            (20)                  -        (686)                   -         (2,122)
 Foreign exchange     -                  2                     -        -                       -         2
                      _______            _______               _______  _______                 _______   _______
 At 31 December 2020  (3,373)            (52)                  -        (1,658)                 -         (5,083)

 Net carrying amount
 At 31 December 2020  5,890              58                    27       5,204                   470       11,649

 At 31 December 2019  4,434              74                    23       5,890                   470       10,891

 

 

19        Tangible assets

 

 2021                          Leasehold improvements  Computer equipment  Office equipment  Vehicles  Total

                               $'000                   $'000               $'000             $'000     $'000
 Cost
 At 1 January 2021             131                     1,084               59                305       1,579
 Additions                     -                       88                  -                 -         88
 Foreign exchange differences  (2)                     (21)                (1)               (6)       (30)
                               _______                 _______             _______           _______   _______
 At 31 December 2021           129                     1,151               58                299       1,637

 Depreciation
 At 1 January 2021             (24)                    (222)               (20)              (95)      (361)
 Charge for the year           (18)                    (238)               (11)              (36)      (303)
 Foreign exchange differences  1                       6                   -                 2         9
                               _______                 _______             _______           _______   _______
 At 31 December 2021           (41)                    (454)               (31)              (129)     (655)

 Net carrying amount
 At 31 December 2021           88                      697                 27                170       982

 At 31 December 2020           107                     862                 39                210       1,218

 

 

 

 2020                          Leasehold improvements  Computer equipment  Office equipment  Vehicles  Total

                               $'000                   $'000               $'000             $'000     $'000
 Cost
 At 1 January 2020             109                     197                 59                312       677
 Additions                     24                      877                 1                 -         902
 Foreign exchange differences  (2)                     10                  (1)               (7)       -
                               _______                 _______             _______           _______   _______
 At 31 December 2020           131                     1,084               59                305       1,579

 Depreciation
 At 1 January 2020             (7)                     (87)                (9)               (59)      (162)
 Charge for the year           (17)                    (134)               (11)              (36)      (198)
 Foreign exchange differences  -                       (1)                 -                 -         (1)
                               _______                 _______             _______           _______   _______
 At 31 December 2020           (24)                    (222)               (20)              (95)      (361)

 Net carrying amount
 At 31 December 2020           107                     862                 39                210       1,218

 At 31 December 2019           102                     110                 50                253       515

 

 

 

20        Right-of-use assets

 

Right-of-use assets comprise leases over office buildings and vehicles as
follows:

 

 2021                                       Office      Vehicles  Total

                                            buildings
                                            $'000       $'000     $'000
 Cost
 At 1 January 2021                          661         32        693
 Additions in respect of new leases         112         -         112
 Disposals in respect of leases terminated  (10)        (32)      (42)
 Effects of foreign exchange movements      (13)        -         (13)
                                            _______     _______   _______
 At 31 December 2021                        750         -         750

 Depreciation
 At 1 January 2021                          (355)       (30)      (385)
 Charge for the period                      (164)       (2)       (166)
 Eliminated on leases terminated            -           32        32
 Effects of foreign exchange movements      9           -         9
                                            _______     _______   _______
 At 31 December 2021                        (510)       -         (510)

 Net carrying amount
 At 31 December 2021                        240         -         240

 At 31 December 2020                        306         2         308

 

 

 

 2020                                       Office      Vehicles  Total

                                            buildings
                                            $'000       $'000     $'000
 Cost
 At 1 January 2020                          690         31        721
 Additions in respect of new leases         227         -         227
 Disposals in respect of leases terminated  (231)       -         (231)
 Effects of foreign exchange movements      (25)        1         (24)
                                            _______     _______   _______
 At 31 December 2020                        661         32        693

 Depreciation
 At 1 January 2020                          (368)       (14)      (382)
 Charge for the period                      (153)       (14)      (167)
 Eliminated on leases terminated            157         -         157
 Effects of foreign exchange movements      9           (2)       7
                                            _______     _______   _______
 At 31 December 2020                        (355)       (30)      (385)

 Net carrying amount
 At 31 December 2020                        306         2         308

 At 31 December 2019                        322         17        339

 

 

21        Trade and other receivables and contract assets

 

Contract assets

 

 Due after one year                        2021     2020
                                           $'000    $'000
 At 1 January                              751      519
 Contract assets recognised in the period  195      441
 Transfer to current contract assets       (340)    (209)
                                           _______  _______
 At 31 December                            606      751

 

 

 Due within one year                                                          2021     2020
                                                                              $'000    $'000
 At 1 January                                                                 609      293
 Contract assets recognised in the period, net of releases to receivables or  (394)    107
 cash, or amortisation to profit or loss
 Transfer from non-current contract assets                                    340      209
                                                                              _______  _______
 At 31 December                                                               555      609

 

 

Contract assets are comprised as follows:

 

 Due after one year                   2021     2020
                                      $'000    $'000
 Contract assets relating to revenue  227      311
 Contract fulfilment assets           379      440
                                      _______  _______
                                      606      751

 

 

 Due within one year                  2021     2020
                                      $'000    $'000
 Contract assets relating to revenue  375      457
 Contract fulfilment assets           180      152
                                      _______  _______
                                      555      609

 

The Group recognises impairments under IFRS 9 for relevant classes of assets.
The Group thus reviews the amount of expected credit loss associated with its
trade receivables based on forward looking estimates that take into account
current and forecast credit conditions as opposed to relying on past
historical default rates. In the absence of any historic credit losses and the
expectation of no specific losses in the foreseeable future, the Directors
assess a hypothetical likely default amount by applying a percentage
"probability of default" to the receivables balance, such probability being
related to the underlying credit rating of the customer or country of origin.
Furthermore, taking into account the time value of money when applied to
contracts assets (which may unwind over a period of years following their
initial recognition), a loss allowance for expected credit losses has been
recorded as follows:

 

                                2021     2020
                                $'000    $'000
 Loss allowance at 1 January    37       29
 Increase in loss allowance     52       8
                                _______  _______
 Loss allowance at 31 December  89       37

 

The loss allowance is comprised as follows:

 

                                2021     2020
                                $'000    $'000
 On trade receivables           75       30
 On contract assets             14       7
                                _______  _______
 Loss allowance at 31 December  89       37

 

The largest individual counterparty to a receivable included in trade and
other receivables at 31 December 2021 was $1.14m (of which some $0.68m related
to unbilled revenue) (2020: $0.56m). Based on invoiced receivables, the
largest individual counterparty owed the Group $0.52m (2020: $0.20m). The
increase in loss allowance is due almost entirely to two individually
significant receivables balances (other than the largest) from customers
located in a jurisdiction with a notionally higher risk of default, and the
weighting of the largest within the loss allowance calculation. Other than
these, the Group's customers are spread across a broad range of geographies,
and approximately $1.5m has been received from customers since the reporting
date.

 

 

 

22        Other assets

 

 At 31 December                                                 2021     2020
                                                                $'000    $'000
 Prepayments                                                    146      130
 Deposits                                                       77       80
 Other assets (including withholding tax, GST and VAT refunds)  92       275
                                                                _______  _______
 Total other assets                                             315      485

 

 

23        Loans and borrowings

 

Loans and borrowings comprise:

 

 At 31 December                 2021     2020
                                $'000    $'000
 Non-current liabilities
 Secured term loans             23       277
 Unsecured borrowings           585      919
                                _______  _______
                                608      1,196
 Current liabilities
 Current portion of term loans  11       99
 Unsecured borrowings           125      145
                                _______  _______
                                136      244

 Total loans and borrowings     744      1,440

 

The Group has two term loans, in its operating subsidiary in India and
denominated in INR, with interest rates between 10% and 15.5% (in INR),
repayable between 5 and 6 years from their inception, between June 2023 and
September 2024.

 

 

24        Lease liabilities

 

Lease liabilities comprise liabilities arising from the committed and expected
payments on leases over office buildings and vehicles.

 

2021

 

 Amounts due in more than one year        Office      Vehicles  Total

                                          buildings
                                          $'000       $'000     $'000
 At 1 January 2021                        172         -         172
 Liabilities taken on in the period       24          -         24
 Liabilities (disposed of) in the period  (10)        -         (10)
 Transfer from long-term to short-term    (103)       -         (103)
 Effects of foreign exchange movements    (3)         -         (3)
                                          _______     _______   _______
 At 31 December 2021                      80          -         80

 

 

 

 Amounts due in less than one year        Office      Vehicles  Total

                                          buildings
                                          $'000       $'000     $'000
 At 1 January 2021                        174         -         174
 Liabilities taken on in the period       89          -         89
 Liabilities (disposed of) in the period  (1)         -         (1)
 Repayments of principal                  (171)       -         (171)
 Transfer to short-term from long-term    103         -         103
 Effects of foreign exchange movements    (6)         -         (6)
                                          _______     _______   _______
 At 31 December 2021                      188         -         188

 

 

2020

 

 Amounts due in more than one year        Office      Vehicles  Total

                                          buildings
                                          $'000       $'000     $'000
 At 1 January 2020                        186         1         187
 Liabilities taken on in the period       163         -         163
 Liabilities (disposed of) in the period  (28)        -         (28)
 Transfer from long-term to short-term    (140)       (1)       (141)
 Effects of foreign exchange movements    (9)         -         (9)
                                          _______     _______   _______
 At 31 December 2020                      172         -         172

 

 

 Amounts due in less than one year        Office      Vehicles  Total

                                          buildings
                                          $'000       $'000     $'000
 At 1 January 2020                        193         12        205
 Liabilities taken on in the period       69          -         69
 Liabilities (disposed of) in the period  (56)        -         (56)
 Repayments of principal                  (164)       (12)      (176)
 Transfer to short-term from long-term    140         1         141
 Effects of foreign exchange movements    (8)         (1)       (9)
                                          _______     _______   _______
 At 31 December 2020                      174         -         174

 

PSPL, the Group's main operating subsidiary, has entered into various leases
over office space in Bangalore and Mumbai, which are now all out of their
initial commitment terms on notice periods of typically 2-3 months with
rollover options. The Group also has a lease on office space in Nizhny
Novgorod in Russia.  Now the impact of COVID-19 is diminishing and working
from home flexibility is becoming more defined, the Group intends to review
its office accommodation with a view to consolidating its principal office
accommodation from the beginning of 2023.

 

 

 

25        Trade and other payables and contract liabilities

 

 At 31 December                  2021     2020
                                 $'000    $'000
 Due within one year
 Trade payables                  152      810
 Other payables                  451      283
                                 _______  _______
 Total trade and other payables  603      1,093

 

Trade payables include amounts due in respect of sales commissions due to
sales agents which is payable in less than one year. Other payables comprise
principally amounts due in respect of staff bonuses declared for December and
paid in January.

 

Contract liabilities

 

Contract liabilities represent consideration received in respect of
unsatisfied performance obligations. Changes to the Group's contract
liabilities are attributable solely to the satisfaction of performance
obligations.

 

 At 31 December                                 2021     2020
                                                $'000    $'000
 Due after one year
 Contract liabilities at 1 January              207      274
 Contract liabilities recognised in the period  152      20
 Transfers to short-term liabilities            (81)     (87)
                                                _______  _______
 Contract liabilities at 31 December            278      207

 

 

 At 31 December                                                       2021     2020
                                                                      $'000    $'000
 Due within one year
 Contract liabilities at 1 January                                    495      665
 Contract liabilities recognised/(released to revenue) in the period  (107)    (257)
 Transfers from long-term liabilities                                 81       87
                                                                      _______  _______
 Contract liabilities at 31 December                                  469      495

 

 

 

26        Provisions

 

 At 31 December       2021     2020
                      $'000    $'000
 Due after one year
 Employee gratuities  141      116
 Leave encashment     61       57
                      _______  _______
                      202      173

 

 At 31 December                    2021     2020
                                   $'000    $'000
 Due within one year
 Employee gratuities               7        13
 Leave encashment                  30       24
 Other provisions (including tax)  35       126
                                   _______  _______
                                   72       163

 

Other provisions comprise tax and other expenses.

 

Under the Indian Payment of Gratuity Act 1972, employees with more than 5
years' service are eligible for the payment of a "gratuity" upon certain end
of employment events, including retirement, resignation, death and termination
or redundancy. The calculation of the gratuity due is based on the last drawn
salary and number of years of service. The potential liability arising from
these requirements is calculated by third party actuaries based on employee
profiles, their completed number of years in the organization, their age,
salary and also on the probability of termination of employment, and a
provision made accordingly.

 

Under the terms of their employment, employees are eligible to carry forward
30 "earned leaves" (EL) to the next calendar year. Any EL balance over and
above this is paid in cash by March the following year, hence resulting in a
long-term provision.

 

 

27        Share capital and reserves

 

Share capital and share premium

 

 Ordinary shares of 2.5p each (issued and fully paid)  $'000    Number
 At 1 January 2020                                     1,065    32,532,431
 Issued for cash during the year                       147      4,500,000
                                                       _______  _______
 At 31 December 2020                                   1,212    37,032,431
 Issued for cash during the year                       289      8,375,000
                                                       _______  _______
 At 31 December 2021                                   1,501    45,407,431

 

On 2 and 5 July the Company issued a further 8,375,000 2.5 pence Ordinary
shares at a price of 40.0 pence per share by way of a placing to institutional
and other investors. The Company incurred incremental costs totalling $333,000
in respect of the Placing. IAS 32 Financial Instruments: Presentation requires
the costs of issuing new shares to be charged against the share premium
account. Management reviewed the incremental costs to identify those solely
incurred in issuing new shares, those incurred in connection with the entire
share capital, and those not associated with issuing new shares. All of the
costs relating to the Placing were deemed to relate directly to the issue of
new shares and thus resulted in a debit to share premium of $333,000.

 

 

30        Capital commitments and contingent liabilities

 

Other than as disclosed above, as at 31 December 2021 the Group had no
material capital commitments (2020: nil) nor any contingent liabilities (2020:
nil).

 

 

31        Events after the reporting date

 

There have been no events subsequent to the reporting date which would have a
material impact on the financial statements.

 

General

 

Audited accounts

 

The financial information set out above does not comprise the Group or the
Company's statutory accounts. The Annual Report and Financial Statements for
the year ended 31 December 2020 have been filed with the Registrar of
Companies. The Independent Auditors' Report on the Annual Report and Financial
Statements ("Annual Report") for the year ended 31 December 2020 was
unqualified, did not draw attention to any matters by way of emphasis, and did
not contain a statement under 498(2) or 498(3) of the Companies Act 2006.

 

The Independent Auditors' Report on the Annual Report for the year ended 31
December 2021 is unqualified, does not draw attention to any matters by way of
emphasis, and does not contain a statement under 498(2) or 498(3) of the
Companies Act 2006.  The Annual Report will be filed with the Registrar of
Companies following the annual general meeting.

 

The Annual Report, together with a notice of the annual general meeting, are
expected to be made available to shareholders in June 2021.  Copies will also
be available on the Company's website (www.pelatro.com) and from the Company's
registered office at 49 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4N 4SA from that date.

 

As this summary announcement is extracted from the full financial statements,
certain references may refer to notes which are not included herein, and the
Notes section is not reproduced in full.

 

Principal risks and uncertainties

 

The principal risks and uncertainties facing the Group together with actions
being taken to mitigate them and future potential items for consideration will
be set out in the Strategic Report section of the Annual Financial Report
2021.

 

Presentation of figures

 

Figures are rounded to the nearest $0.1m, $0.01m or $'000 as the case may be.
Percentage increases or decreases stated above are based on the figures as
rounded. Minor differences may arise in tabulation and figures presented
elsewhere due to rounding differences.

 

 

This announcement was approved by the Board of Directors on 20 May 2022.

 

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