REG-Clear Leisure Plc: New Business Investment

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16 December 2019

Clear Leisure Plc

(“Clear Leisure” or “the Company”)

New Business Investment

3D Mapping: Virtual London and Virtual Milan

The board of Clear Leisure (AIM: CLP) is pleased to announce a proposed new
business investment and initiative based on the 3D mapping technology of
GeoSim Systems Ltd, (www.geosim.co.il) (“GeoSim”). Clear Leisure has a
4.53% shareholding in GeoSim which is an Israeli company specialising in 3D
city mapping to create digital models (referred to as “Digital Twins”).

Using GeoSim’s technology under licence, Clear Leisure intends to launch two
projects to develop Digital Twins for London and Milan. It is planned that
Digital Twins of other UK and European cities (including main capital cities)
will follow.

Clear Leisure intends to incorporate two new Italian domiciled companies
(“Newco”) in the next few weeks for the London and Milan Digital Twin
projects.

It is intended that the acquisition of complete city airborne data and initial
street level photographic and laser scanning data for both the London and
Milan projects will be funded by a proposed €500,000 fundraising to be
undertaken by each Newco. The two proposed fundraisings will be hosted on the
new Italian crowdfunding platform, ForCrowd Srl (“ForCrowd”), in which
Clear Leisure holds a 20% interest. This initial funding is also expected to
allow for the development of a 1 sq km 3D map rendering of each city. It is
expected that each subsequent €500,000 of capital raised by each Newco will
allow a further 12-14 sq km to be added to the 3D models. 

Geosim will be the main developer for both projects.

For the purpose of the crowdfunding exercise, the Company intends to set a
pre-new money valuation for the London Newco and the Milan Newco by reference
to the proposed urban area to be developed being 40 sq kilometre for Milan and
100 sq kilometre for London. In particular, the board of Clear Leisure will
set these valuations by considering the nature and usage of the buildings
within the areas to be mapped and associated revenue potential.

It is currently anticipated that the crowdfunding exercise will go live on the
ForCrowd platform by February 2020. There is, however, no guarantee that the
fundraising will achieve the level of funding required to launch either or
both Newcos, or that any funds raised will be invested at the pre-new money
valuations which the Board will seek to achieve.

The board of Clear Leisure currently expects that the total cost of completing
the London Digital Twin will be approximately €5 million and approximately
€2 million to complete the Milan Digital Twin. It is anticipated that phase
one of the project, namely the collection of data and the development of 1 sq
km of each Digital Twin, will take up to five months. It is currently expected
that it will take 18 months to complete the initial target size for London and
12 months in respect of Milan.

Digital Twins can be used in relation to many activities including real estate
planning and development, advertising, forensic analysis, security, training
and gaming.

The board of Clear Leisure currently aims to have a controlling interest in
each fully funded Newco. As a result of this proposed approach to financing
the two Newcos, Clear Leisure shareholders will not be diluted

INFORMATION ON GEOSIM TECHNOLOGY

GeoSim is a technology company specialising in 3D city mapping through the
creation of digital models (“Digital Twins”).  GeoSim offers high
accuracy and high-resolution 3D models, which are interactive when online or
offline, and believes that it represents the new standard of urban data
representation. Through the further refinement of its development platform
automation technology, however, GeoSim has been able to reduce the production
price, thereby making it feasible to develop very large urban areas with high
levels of detail.

GeoSim has successfully concluded projects such as, mapping the city of
Vancouver and a segment of Downtown Los Angeles (including the 7th Street
Metro Center Station); it is currently creating the Digital Twin of a major
Asian airport.   

Francesco Gardin, Executive Chairman and CEO of Clear Leisure, commented,
“This new investment clearly demonstrates the Company’s ongoing strategy
into the technology sector.

“Once a user has experienced the 1cm per pixel resolution of GeoSim’s
technology for urban 3D models, it would be difficult to go back to the
low-resolution photograph-based pseudo 3D models, currently available online.

“Moreover, by demonstrating to the larger European cities the outstanding
power of GeoSim’s technology, it could potentially help increase the value
of our existing investment in GeoSim, by expanding its visibility to new
target clients in Europe.”

Francesco Gardin continued, “The use of our crowdfunding platform ForCrowd,
is representative of how we intend to create synergies among our portfolio
companies and why we chose to make the original investment into ForCrowd in
October.”

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For further information please contact:

Clear Leisure
Plc                                                                                 
+39 335 296573

Francesco Gardin, CEO and Executive Chairman

SP Angel Corporate Finance (Nominated Adviser & Broker)      +44 (0)20
3470 0470

Jeff Keating / John
Mackay                                                                                              

Leander (Financial
PR)                                                                
+44 (0) 7795 168 157

Christian Taylor-Wilkinson

About Clear Leisure Plc

Clear Leisure plc (AIM: CLP) is an AIM listed investment company with a
portfolio of companies primarily encompassing the leisure and real estate
sectors mainly in Italy. The focus of the management is two-fold: to pursue
the monetisation of all of the Company’s existing assets, through selected
realisations, court-led recoveries of misappropriated assets and substantial
debt-recovery processes and to seek technology related investments, with
special regard to interactive media, blockchain and AI sectors. For further
information, please visit, www.clearleisure.co.uk



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