01-06-2006 - Printing.com - Preliminary Results as of 31st March 2006
FOR RELEASE 7.00AM 1 June 2006PRINTING.COM PLC
("Printing.com","the Company" or "the Group")
Specialist retail chain with 172 outlets open and pending across the UK
Preliminary Results for
year ended 31 March 2006
2006 2005
Total Retail Sales £18.22m £14.44m + 26.2%
Turnover £12.34m £10.72m + 15.1%
Profit Before Tax £2.41m £1.51m +59.6%
Earnings Per Share - Basic 4.12p 2.74p +50.4%
EPS - Fully Diluted 3.92p 2.66p +47.4%
Dividend 1.75p 0.50p +250.0%
Cash Reserves £3.45m £2.86m +20.6%
* Record turnover, profit before tax and earnings per share
* Strong cash position
* Annual dividend of 1.75p
* Expansion continues across the UK
* First overseas Master Franchise signed
* Outlook for the future development of the Group is positive
For further information:
Printing.com plc
Tony Rafferty (Chief Executive) 07966 517 336
Alan Roberts (Finance Director) 0161 848 5713
Cubitt Consulting
Brian Coleman-Smith / Allison Reid / Nia Thomas 020 7367 5100
Background note:
Printing.com
Printing.com offers a broad product range including leaflets, booklets, postcards, promotional cards, invitations, letterheads and business cards to consumers and small and medium sized companies. Unlike its competitors, Printing.com Stores and Franchises do not depend on any printing equipment on location. The Company's printing and ancillary equipment is based at the centralised Production Hub with the head office in Manchester. All work is produced in full four colour rather than two colour. Delivery to the customer is usually within three days. The printing sector has traditionally been served by smaller printing companies or other On Demand Printers and is estimated to be worth some £1 billion.
Printing.com has three routes to market: Franchise Stores, Bolt-on Franchises and Company owned Stores.
A complete list of Printing.com's Outlets which are currently open is included at the end of the release.
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PRINTING.COM PLC
("Printing.com","the Company" or "the Group")
Specialist retail chain with 172 outlets open and pending across the UK
Preliminary Results for
year ended 31 March 2006
Chairman's Statement
Trading Results
I'm pleased to report another excellent year. The development of your Company has continued to gain significant momentum, illustrated by an increase across key metrics: pre-tax profit increased by 59% to £2.41m (2005: £1.51m) and earnings per share increased by 50% to 4.12p (2005:2.74p).
Turnover increased to £12.34m (2005: £10.72m); however, I believe the better measure of the increased momentum is Total Retail Sales, being the estimated value of invoiced sales through the Printing.com network, which were £18.22m (2005: £14.44m) - an increase of 26.2%. The increase in Total Retail Sales reflects the significant growth in the size of our network, with 166 Outlets open or pending at the year end (2005: 119). Since the year end the number of outlets open or pending has increased by 6 to 172.
Cash
I am also pleased to report a strong generation of cash, with the result that your Company closed the year with cash reserves of £3.45m (2005:£2.86m). This is despite payment of dividends and the capital expenditure on the initial stages of the Hub expansion programme.
Dividend
The Board is proposing a final dividend of 1.25p per ordinary share, making a total of 1.75p for the year (2005:0.50p), to be paid on 2 August 2006 to shareholders on the register at the close of business on 23 June 2006. This reflects our belief in the strength of a franchise structure (in the UK, Ireland and other territories) where ongoing growth can be achieved to further enhance both earnings and cash generation.
External Recognition
During the year your Company won recognition with awards and commendations from important bodies in both the franchise and printing sectors.
In June 2005, the Company won the Award for Enterprise from the British Franchise Association and was subsequently a national awards finalist in both "Print Week", for "Printing Company of the Year", and "Printing World", for "Best Training Programme".
In December 2005 Tony Rafferty, the Company's Chief Executive, was elected to the Board of the British Franchise Association by his peers within the franchise community.
Since the year end, Printing.com was also awarded "UK Printing Company of the Year" by the British Printing Industries Federation - the printing sector's principal trade association. The presentation of this award was made during IPEX (the world's largest English speaking printing exhibition) and meant that the Company enjoyed significant media coverage. The timing could not have been better in the context of the promotion of our International Master Franchise initiative.
Collectively these achievements highlight how far your Company has progressed in a relatively short period of time and clearly bode well for those considering a Printing.com franchise.
Employees and Franchisees
The success of your Company can be very much attributed to the hard work, endeavours and entrepreneurialism or our employees, franchisees and, indeed, the employees of our franchisees. Accordingly, on your behalf, I thank them for their hard work.
Additional Production Capacity
It is a little over three years since we moved our production Hub to its present location which, along with the investment in additional printing equipment, resulted in a seeming abundance of excess capacity. At that point I expressed my belief that this capacity would be quickly utilised, providing the scope for considerable growth in earnings which has proven to be the case.
Once again we are at a juncture where new capacity is required and are in the final stages of upgrading our Manchester Hub, an investment of around £3.4 million. I believe that Total Retail Sales will increase to justify this decision and provide a sound platform for a further increase in earnings.
Outlook
Since Printing.com has been a public company, your Board has always been of the view that its model could be exploited in overseas territories and various strategies have been considered to this end. By electing to partner with established printing companies (who essentially already have a Hub), I believe we will be able to derive additional revenues from licence fees and royalties on your Company's Intellectual Property of which, Flyerlink® the Company's proprietary software, is the cornerstone.
With the first international licence having just been granted for New Zealand (with the option to extend to Australia), I feel I am justified in expressing optimism that this additional facet of your Company could produce an important additional revenue stream in the future.
Your Board believes that the current year will again be one of significant progress.
George Hardie
Chairman
1 June 2006
Chief Executive's Statement
Network Overview
The table below sets out the ongoing growth in the numbers of outlets that has been achieved in the year under review and to date.
1 June
2006 31 March
2006 31 March
2005
Company owned Stores 6
6 9
Franchised Stores
Open, pending and under option 43
42 33
Bolt-on Franchises 123 118 77
Total Outlets 172 166 119
Territory and Boutique Franchise Development
During the year, fourteen Territory Franchises became operational in Brighton, Coventry, Guildford, North Manchester, East Birmingham, South West Birmingham, Bradford, Exeter, Cardiff, Norwich, Northampton, Peterborough, Southampton and Clapham.
Two further Boutique Franchises (identical in format to the Territory Franchise Store but without the responsibility for developing and supporting a network of Bolt-On Franchises) were opened in South Glasgow and Doncaster. The early success of this additional format encourages us that similar Boutique operations can be established across the UK and Ireland.
A further three Territory Franchises were established via buyouts. The first via an MBI of the Bristol Store and the other two, in Edinburgh and South Manchester, via MBOs. The previously franchised Store in Luton converted to Printing.com ownership.
Moving forward, it is intended that the Company will maintain an estate of three or four owned Stores, principally retained for training and development purposes.
A further option has been taken out over a London Territory, involving the payment of a non-refundable deposit of £6,000.
Bolt-on Franchise Development
The success of the Bolt-on Franchise format continues to build year on year. Franchises of this format are now successfully in operation with established Graphic Designers, Web Designers, Marketing Agencies, Printers, Copy Shops and various hybrid graphic arts businesses who operate their Printing.com Bolt-On Franchise in tandem with their existing business.
During the year an additional net 41 Bolt-on franchises were added bringing the total to 118. I believe the scope exists, across the UK and Ireland, for this figure to exceed 300 over the coming years. Collectively, the present 118 outlets account for over 50% of the Company's Total Retail Sales.
Also this year, the Company launched a number of franchises that it terms "Guerrilla Franchises". Essentially this format is centred on a similar structure to a Bolt-On franchise but it is established with a new business. However, the proprietor of such a franchise must hail from the graphic arts sector and accordingly such a person would already have most of the requisite skills. The Guerrilla format provides a flexible way for ambitious professionals from the sector, without the collateral to fund a Territory or Boutique franchise, to take their first entrepreneurial steps with Printing.com. Successful candidates include former employees of our competitors, who are then able to exploit their existing contacts in the local business community. Territory Franchisees have also assisted their own staff to become Guerrilla Franchisees - a move that we welcome as it retains these entrepreneurial people within the Printing.com network. These businesses are low cost start-ups typically starting from small serviced offices or even a home office on a temporary basis.
Like for Like
As indicated when reporting our interim results we now believe that enough meaningful data exists for us to comment on "like for like" comparison. We feel that it is most appropriate to report on the like for like progress of our Territory Franchisees (or equivalent Company-owned operations) that have operated for at least three years. Hence the earliest figures that we have included for a Territory Franchise is its third year versus its second year. In presenting these figures we also believe that it is essential to consider not only the performance of the Store, in isolation, but also the growth in revenues from its associated Bolt-On Franchises. Accordingly on this basis like for like growth during the year under review was 17.6% with 14 Territory Franchises (or Company owned equivalents) contributing to this metric.
The Agency
At the year end The Agency was split into two businesses and MBOs successfully carried out for each. These businesses are now operated as Bolt-On Franchises.
The Production Hub and Infrastructure
Ensuring an undisrupted, high quality supply chain for our Franchisees, and thereby enabling them to satisfy the needs of our clients, is paramount to the success of Printing.com.
We have previously indicated that our Production Hub had capacity in the order of £20-25 million of Total Retail Sales. With the figure for the year under review approaching the bottom end of this range and the present annualised level in peak weeks exceeding this range, then clearly the question of additional capacity had to be addressed. We considered options for a second Hub in the South of England but ultimately felt that this would unnecessarily duplicate certain costs.
During the year, we refined our plan for an increase in capacity of the Manchester Hub - essentially comprising the following principle elements:-
- a "double-decker" press that should have a capacity similar to the combined output of our two existing "single-decker" presses;
- an upgrade to certain print finishing equipment not only to provide additional capacity but also to improve efficiencies.
An important element of this upgrade has been the design and development of a bespoke job sortation system. The Company routinely dispatches over 1200 cartons per day, with each carton containing three or four individual "product packs". To date, these have been sorted and packed in a manual and labour-intensive manner. With the advent of this system the process should prove far more automated, being driven directly by the Company's Flyerlink® software. This transition will enable our employees to be redeployed to more value-adding activity.
Collectively the Hub upgrade represents an investment of circa £3.4 million. However, we believe that this should facilitate a Total Retail Sales capacity in the order of £40-45 million with relatively little additional capital expenditure.
International Expansion
In November 2005 we set out our plans for international expansion. Central to these plans is the granting of a Master Franchise Licence to an established printer in other countries who would in turn be able to exploit the Printing.com model in their territory.
Through its UK and Ireland activities, Printing.com is presently achieving a profit before tax of 19.5% of turnover. By comparison, the average figure for the UK's 500 largest printing companies is just 2.79% (Print Week Top 500 UK Print Companies Survey 2005). It is this profitability chasm that we believe will prove to be the commercial rationale for overseas printers to embrace Printing.com.
The granting of a Master Franchise would provide a partner with access to the Printing.com brand, business know-how, methodology, marketing and training collateral. It would also, and of particular importance, provide a licence to use Flyerlink®, the Company's proprietary software, which fuses together the entire supply chain from Franchisee to final despatch. It is believed that no "off the shelf" available software can appropriately facilitate the specific nature of the Printing.com model. To provide perspective, Flyerlink® has been developed over 14 years and, through a process of continual improvement, we believe it offers a software solution to overseas printers who wish to develop a similar business that is not available via established Management Information Systems. Flyerlink®, having been completely rewritten between 2003 and 2005, represents a significant barrier to entry for competitors and provides a catalyst for growth for international franchise partners.
In return for granting a Master Franchise it is anticipated that Printing.com will be paid a combination of an initial licence fee, a royalty in the order of 3% of the Licensee's Total Retail Sales and 20% of franchise fees generated locally. We believe this represents excellent value for a prospective partner as, in the UK, Printing.com spends more than this amount on the creation and maintenance of the system.
We are delighted to report that the first such Master Franchise Agreement has been granted for New Zealand to Astra Group. Astra Print Limited operates a highly-regarded, commercial print business in Wellington, New Zealand. Over the past three years they have independently developed a network branded "Print Stop". Print Stop, like Printing.com operates via a central 'Hub' albeit it currently comprises of fourteen outlets (five franchised). The rationale for the Astra Group adopting the Printing.com Master Franchise is centered on Flyerlink® and their belief that the step-change in functionality that Flyerlink® brings to both their outlets and hub operations will prove the catalyst for increasing their rate of expansion. The agreement with Astra Group also includes an option covering Australia, exercisable by 31 March 2007.
We are encouraged by how well the Master Franchise proposition has been received by prospective partners in other territories. During the April 2006 IPEX exhibition many visitors extended their trip to include a visit to Printing.com and others who were unable to do so have since made separate visits to the Hub. Space has been reserved at October's Graph Expo print exhibition in Chicago, which is the largest print exhibition in all of the Americas, during October 2006. This, together with other promotional initiatives, whilst incurring additional expenditure reflects our belief of the potential of the Master Franchise project. We are also in purposeful discussions with a number of other parties and are increasingly optimistic about future development.
Current Trading and Outlook
Day to day trading during the first two periods of the current financial year has proved somewhat mixed across the estate. However, the rate of expansion of the network continues to be robust with a strong pipeline of prospective franchisees.
The granting of the first Master Franchise of New Zealand was in advance of our expectations. This licence should generate a positive contribution during the current financial year, albeit at a relatively modest level. Having partnered with an existing exponent of the "hub and spoke" model, we believe this should bode well for attracting Master Franchisees. We believe this is a significant endorsement of Flyerlink and the Master Franchise proposition.
We are presently in negotiation with a number of parties across Europe and are optimistic that additional Master Franchises will be granted during the course of the financial year.
Tony Rafferty
Chief Executive
1 June 2006
Financial Review
Total Retail Sales
TRS is a key metric, being the retail price paid by the client irrespective of whether the transaction took place through a Company owned or a franchised Outlet. This measure is important in that it gives the clearest indication of the growth in the network. With TRS increasing by 26.2% to £18.22m (2005: £14.44m), the ongoing development of the Printing.com network is clearly illustrated. At this level we estimate that Printing.com still accounts for less than 2% of the available market.
Turnover
Overall turnover increased by 15.1% from £10.72m to £12.34m. Network growth is essentially derived from our Franchise initiatives: with such transactions our turnover is limited to the "wholesale" value of the orders. In addition three Stores, previously under direct ownership, have now been franchised with the retail component of the respective orders given over to the franchisee. Company Store sales and sales to Franchisees increased by 23.5% from £9.32m to £11.51m for the year. Total Company turnover was held back by sales at The Agency which fell to £0.84m from £1.40m.
Gross Profit
The Company's simple definition of Gross Profit is sales less direct materials (including the cost of distribution, when made direct to customers).
Gross Profit increased by 12.4% from £7.83m to £8.80m. In percentage terms it reduced from 73% to 71.3% of turnover as more sales moved through the franchise channels, at wholesale prices, where the retail margin is passed over to Franchisees who then incur the corresponding retail overheads.
Pre-Tax Profit
The Company recorded a pre tax profit of £2.41m (an increase of £0.90m). This represented 19.5% of Company turnover and 13.2% of TRS. In the previous year the pre tax profit of £1.51m represented 14% of turnover and 10.4% of TRS. We believe the significant increase in pre tax profitability, in both absolute terms and on these key metrics, continues to validate our franchise centred strategy.
The effect of franchising Company Stores meant that staff costs did not increase in the year and fell as a percentage of turnover from 30.3% to 26.3%. Other major costs for the year were depreciation £0.79m (2005: £0.73m) and operating lease costs (plant & property) £0.37m (2005: £0.41m).
Those overheads directly related to Company owned retail operations, including payroll and depreciation, reduced from £2.26m to £1.78m or 21.1% of turnover down to 14.4%. This was essentially due to Stores previously owned by the Company becoming franchised units.
The strong operational cash flow, interest charged to Franchisees with loans and reducing lease finance costs meant net interest income of £7,000 (2005: charge £0.12m).
Taxation
The standard rate for tax remains 30%, charge for the current year is £0.58m or 24% (2005: £0.35m or 23.2%) of PBT through some income not being chargeable to tax in this year.
Earnings per share (EPS)
Basic EPS improved by 50% to 4.12p, the weighted average number of shares used was 44,312,566. Fully diluted EPS improved by 47% to 3.92p, the weighted average number of shares used was 46,617,062. The year closed with 44,666,892 ordinary shares in issue.
Cash Flow
At the year end the Company had cash balances of £3.45m (2005: £2.86m) and Net Funds of £2.51m (2005:£1.44m).
Operational cash inflow increased slightly to £2.47m (2005: £2.43m). The operating profit of £2.4m and depreciation & amortisation of £0.79m were offset by increased debtors of £0.93m and supplemented by an increase in creditors of £0.22m. Capital Expenditure increased to £1.0m and the outflow for Financing, after £58,000 for share capital issues, was £0.47m.
Capital Expenditure
The total expenditure for the year was £1.0m (2005: £0.5m).
This was made up of:-
a) software development and computing £0.3m;
b) production equipment £0.6m;
c) purchase of the Luton Store and certain limited Store refurbishments £0.1m.
Share Capital and Share Options
Employees' options over 377,176 shares were exercised during the year.
In October 2005 Territory Franchisees were granted options with an exercise price of 63.5p over 1,260,000 shares subject to their achieving performance targets and there being a sustained increase in the share price for the options to become exercisable.
International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
As a company listed on the UK Alternative Investment Market (AIM), the Group is not currently required to comply with IFRS. The Board will assess which IFRS requirements will become mandatory from 2007 and put appropriate processes in place to ensure compliance.
Alan Q. Roberts
Finance Director
1 June 2006
Unaudited Group Profit and Loss Account for the year ended 31 March 2006.
Notes 2006
£000 2005
£000
TURNOVER 1 12,344 10,717
Changes in stocks of finished goods 16 35
12,360 10,752
Raw materials and consumables 3,557 2,924
8,803 7,828
Staff costs 3,284 3,243
Depreciation and amortisation 794 728
Other operating charges 2,325 2,225
OPERATING PROFIT 2,400 1,632
Interest receivable 141 67
Interest payable and similar charges (134) (191)
PROFIT ON ORDINARY ACTIVITIES BEFORE TAXATION 2,407 1,508
Taxation 2 (581) (350)
PROFIT ON ORDINARY ACTIVITIES AFTER TAXATION 1,826 1,158
Earnings per ordinary share - basic 4 4.12p 2.74p
Earnings per ordinary share � fully diluted 4 3.92p 2.66p
The operating profit for the year arises from the Group�s continuing operations.
No separate Statement of Total Recognised Gains and Losses has been presented as all such gains and losses have been dealt with in the Profit and Loss Account.
Unaudited Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2006.
2006
�£000 2005
�£000
(Restated see note 5)
FIXED ASSETS
Intangible assets 68 65
Tangible assets 3,855 3,637
3,923 3,702
CURRENT ASSETS
Stocks 124 108
Debtors due within one year 2,523 1,854
Debtors due after more than one year 561 296
Cash at bank and in hand 3,452 2,864
6,660 5,122
CREDITORS: Amounts falling due within one year (3,493) (2,785)
NET CURRENT ASSETS 3,167 2,337
TOTAL ASSETS LESS CURRENT LIABILITIES 7,090 6,039
CREDITORS: Amounts falling due after more than one year (499) (904)
PROVISION FOR LIABILITIES AND CHARGES (327) (312)
6,264 4,823
CAPITAL AND RESERVES
Called up share capital 447 443
Share premium 3,823 3,769
Merger reserve 211 211
Other reserve 1 1
Profit and loss account 1,782 399
6,264 4,823
Equity shareholders� funds 6,264 4,823
Non-equity shareholders� funds - -
6,264 4,823
Unaudited Cash Flow Statement for the year ended 31 March 2006.
Notes 2006
�£000 2005
�£000
Net cash flow from operating activities 7a 2,466 2,425
Returns on investments and servicing of finance
7b
7
(124)
Taxation - 12
Capital expenditure 7b (973) (425)
Equity dividends paid (443) -
NET CASH INFLOW BEFORE FINANCING 1,057 1,888
Financing 7b (469) 187
INCREASE IN CASH IN YEAR 588 2,075
RECONCILIATION OF NET CASH FLOW TO MOVEMENT IN FUNDS
Increase in cash in the year 588 2,075
Cash outflow from decrease in net debt financing 527 760
Change in net debt resulting from cash flows 1,115 2,835
New finance leases (45) (51)
MOVEMENT IN NET FUNDS IN THE YEAR 1,070 2,784
NET FUNDS/ (DEBT) AT BEGINNING OF THE YEAR 1,438 (1,346)
NET FUNDS AT END OF THE YEAR 7c 2,508 1,438
1 TURNOVER AND PROFIT ON ORDINARY ACTIVITIES BEFORE TAXATION
The principal components of turnover are the design and production of publicity and marketing material, and franchise fee income. All of the turnover is in one continuing business segment being the development of the Printing.com Franchise and originates in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. The directors believe that full compliance with SSAP25 'Segmental Reporting' would be seriously prejudicial to the interests of the Group as it would require disclosure of commercially sensitive information.
An analysis of turnover by geographical segment is given below:
2006 2005
£000 £000
United Kingdom 11,869 10,445
Republic of Ireland 475 272
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12,344 10,717
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2 TAXATION 2006
�£000 2005
�£000
Corporation tax at 30% (2005: 30%) 566 -
Overprovision in prior year - (12)
Total current tax 566 (12)
Deferred tax:
Origination of and reversal of timing differences 15 362
Tax on profit on ordinary activities 581 350
2006
�£000 2005
�£000
Factors affecting the tax charge for the year
Profit on ordinary activities before taxation 2,407 1,508
Profit on ordinary activities before taxation multiplied by standard rate of UK corporation tax of 30% (2005: 30.00%)
722
452
Effects of:
Non deductible expenses 5 30
Income not chargeable (146) (92)
Capital allowances in excess of depreciation (32) (51)
Other tax adjustments 24 4
Losses utilised (7) (343)
Prior year adjustment - (12)
(156) (464)
Current tax charge/ (credit) 566 (12)
3 DIVIDENDS PAID AND PROPOSED 2006
�£000 2005
�£000
Declared and paid during the year
Equity dividends on ordinary shares:
Final dividend for 2005 0.5p (2004: �£Nil) 221 -
Interim dividend for 2006 0.5p (2005: �£Nil) 222 -
443 -
Proposed for approval at Annual General Meeting (Not recognised at 31 March)
Equity dividends on ordinary shares:
Final dividend for 2006 1.25p (2005: 0.5p) 558 221
The �£221,000 dividend proposed for the year ended 31 March 2005 has been accounted for as a distribution in 2006 in accordance with FRS 21 Post balance sheet events.
4 EARNINGS PER SHARE
The calculations of earnings per share are based on the following profits and numbers of shares.
2006
�£000 2005
�£000
Profit for the financial year 1,826 1,158
Weighted average number of shares
2006
No. of shares 2005
No. of shares
For basic earnings per share 44,312,566 42,208,789
Exercise of share options 2,304,496 1,301,237
For basic earnings per share 46,617,062 43,510,026
5 PRIOR YEAR ADJUSTMENT
The Group policies for accounting for proposed dividends were changed during the year in order to comply with FRS 21 Post balance sheet events. The comparative figures in the financial statements and notes have been restated to reflect this new policy.
The effect of this change is as follows:
2006
�£000 2005
�£000
Balance sheet
Profit and loss reserve (221) 221
(Decrease)/ increase in net assets (221) 221
6 RECONCILIATION OF MOVEMENT IN SHAREHOLDERS� FUNDS 2006
�£000 2005
�£000
Restated
Profit for the financial year 1,826 1,158
Dividends on equity shares (443) -
Proceeds from issue of shares 58 947
Net addition to shareholders� funds 1,441 2,105
Opening shareholders� funds 4,602 2,718
Prior year adjustment 221 -
As restated 4,823 2,718
Closing shareholders� funds 6,264 4,823
7 NOTES TO THE STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS
2006
�£000 2005
�£000
a Reconciliation of operating profit to net cash inflow from operating activities
Operating profit 2,400 1,632
Amortisation 39 32
Depreciation 755 695
Increase in stocks (16) (35)
Increase in debtors (934) (485)
Increase in creditors 219 586
Loss on sale of fixed assets 3 -
2,466 2,425
b Analysis of Cash Flows For Headings Netted Off in the Cash Flow Statement
2006
�£000 2005
�£000
RETURNS ON INVESTMENTS AND SERVICING OF FINANCE
Interest received 141 67
Interest paid (1) (4)
Interest element of finance lease rental payments (133) (187)
Net cash outflow from returns on investments and servicing of finance
7
(124)
CAPITAL EXPENDITURE
Purchase of intangible assets (42) (43)
Purchase of tangible assets (972) (405)
Sale of tangible assets 41 23
Net cash outflow from capital expenditure (973) (425)
7 NOTES TO THE STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS (continued)
FINANCING
Issue of ordinary share capital 58 1,232
Issue costs - (285)
Repayment of bank loan - (168)
Capital element of hire purchase contracts (527) (592)
Net cash (outflow)/inflow from financing (469) 187
c
Analysis of net funds/ (debts)
At 1
April 2005
�£000
Cash flow
�£000
Other non
cash
changes
�£000
At
31 March 2006
�£000
Net cash:
Cash at bank and in hand 2,864 588 - 3,452
2,864 587 - 3,452
Debt:
Finance leases (1,426) 527 (45) (944)
(1,426)
527
(45)
(944)
Net funds 1,438 1,115 (45) 2,508
8 BASIS OF THE PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT
The preliminary financial statements for the twelve months ended 31 March 2006 were approved by the Board of Directors on 31 May 2006. The results are unaudited. The figures for the year ended 31 March 2006 do not constitute full accounts within the meaning of Section 240 of the Companies Act 1985. The figures for the year ended 31 March 2005 are audited. The preliminary announcement is prepared on the same basis as set out the previous year's statutory accounts except for FRS21 "Events after the balance sheet date", the effects of which are disclosed in note 5. Those accounts, upon which the auditors issued an unqualified opinion, have been delivered to the Registrar of Companies.
Branch List as at
1st June 2006
Outlet Region Town Post Code
1 Albry Printing Company Central England Wallingford OX10 9DA
2 Artichoke Design Central England Birmingham B18 6NN
3 Birmingham Store Central England Birmingham B5 4JL
4 Clientel Central England Kibworth LE8 0HS
5 Coventry Store Central England Coventry CV2 4BE
6 Cre8ive Design Central England Kenilworth CV8 1JD
7 Custard Creative Central England Northampton NN3 6WL
8 East Birmingham Central England Birmingham B26 3JR
9 First Image Central England Coventry CV5 7FW
10 For Colour Central England Newark, Nottingham NG24 1LE
11 Graphic Results Central England Belper DE56 1AY
12 High Tide Central England Sutton Coldfield B18 6NF
13 Husselworks Central England Halesowen B63 3HR
14 Ideas Taking Shape Central England Rugby CV21 2SD
15 Knight Mason Central England Broughton Astley LE9 6RD
16 Leicester Store Central England Leicester LE1 1LB
17 Mailboxes Central England Shrewsbury SY1 1HN
18 Nottingham Store Central England Nottingham NG1 6DQ
19 Oxford Store Central England Oxford OX2 7HT
20 Photo & Graphic Expertise Central England Banbury OX15 4FF
21 Sign It Central England Beeston, Nottingham NG9 2AY
22 South West Birmingham Central England Birmingham B16 9RD
23 The Ideas Room Central England Leicester LE3 0DL
24 Trident Design Central England Lutterworth LE17 4EE
25 Wolverhampton Store Central England Wolverhampton WV1 4BL
26 Goldengate East Suffolk IP30 9QS
27 Red Hot Media East Lowestoft NR32 1EB
28 South Dublin Store Ireland Dublin Dublin 2
29 North Dublin Store Ireland Dublin Dublin 7
30 TMC Ireland Tullow EE1 1EE
31 0800 Promote London Finchley N3 1TR
32 Central London Store London Baker Street NW1 6UY
33 Ealing Store London Ealing W13 8SB
34 Expocentric - Dover London Mayfair W1X 3PH
35 Expocentric - Wardour London Soho W1V 3AU
36 Full Colour Store London Clapham SW17 9SH
37 Guildford Store London Guildford GU1 3HY
38 Hampstead Store London Hampstead NW3 5HS
39 Harrow Life London Harrow HA1 2EA
40 Harrow Store London Harrow HA7 2QJ
41 Kink Design London Thornton Heath CR7 7AX
42 London Office Services London London W1G 8JR
43 London Print Compamy London Shaftesbury Avenue WC2H 8EB
44 Orpington Store London Orpington BR6 0JY
45 Print Express London Colindale NW9 5DL
46 Printer Net Services London Wimbledon SW19 8TY
47 Printhouse London Nottinghill W11 3HT
48 Reading Store London Reading RG1 4QA
49 Shiver London Camden NW1 0AG
50 Snow Media London Tooting SW17 0RG
51 Source Grafic Design London Catford SE6 1TJ
52 Talon Graphics London Thornton Heath CR7 7JW
53 TCG London Clapham SW11 1TN
54 Toppers London Stevenage SG1 3HR
55 Watford Store London Watford WD17 1RA
56 Kaleidoscope Midlands Leamington Spa CV31 1BZ
57 Ozmedia Print Midlands Loughborough LE12 8JH
58 Pewter Design Midlands Market Harborough LE16 7DS
59 St Ives Quickprint Midlands St Ives PE27 3WS
60 Bluprint North East Rotheram S60 8LZ
61 Bradford Store North East Bradford BD1 5BD
62 Colour Box Design North East York YO24 1AR
63 Colour Box Design North East York YO23 1NA
64 Creative Web Design UK North East Alnwick NE71 6EA
65 Doncaster Store North East Doncaster DN3 3TW
66 GOWEB Print North East Wakefield WF2 9BL
67 Hull Store North East Hull HU1 2AG
68 Leeds Store North East Leeds LS1 3DL
69 Maskerade Design North East Sunderland SR2 7PR
70 Middlesbrough Store North East Middlesbrough TS1 1LY
71 Multiprint North East Normanton WF6 2AF
72 Newcastle Store North East Newcastle NE1 5EE
73 Print House Direct North East Bishop Auckland DL14 0LZ
74 Print Ideas North East Leeds LS8 2HU
75 Pro-Actif Communications North East Darlington DL3 7TD
76 Ryedale North East Kirbymoorside YO62 6YB
77 Sheffield Store North East Sheffield S1 4GF
78 The Factory North East Leeds LS12 2DS
79 Viacreative North East Redcar TS10 5SH
80 Web Rocket Design North East Durham DH1 1RF
81 Blah D Blah North Wales Bangor LL57 1NY
82 Alert 2 Media North West Manchester M1 1DZ
83 Brightspark North West Carlisle CA2 5BB
84 Chilli Cactus North West Manchester M18 7JX
85 Copycat North West Maghull L31 2HB
86 Creation Publicity North West Manchester M17 1DZ
87 ER Design & Print North West Alsager CW2 5PR
88 Fluid Media North West Bury BB5 2LB
89 FX Design North West Queensferry CH5 2LR
90 Granthams - Blackpool North West Blackpool FY1 4PE
91 Granthams - Preston North West Preston PR1 2UQ
92 Impact Advertising North West Timperley WA15 7SP
93 Lancaster Store North West Lancaster LA1 1XN
94 Liverpool Store North West Liverpool L2 2HF
95 Mailboxes North West Stockport SK1 1LE
96 Mailboxes North West Didsbury M20 6UG
97 Manchester Store North West Manchester M3 4BQ
98 Masterprint North West St Helens WA10 1DH
99 North Manchester Store North West Manchester M3 4BQ
100 Print Design Warehouse North West Marple SK6 7AD
101 Print Hub Design North West Bolton BL1 3QJ
102 Printel North West Widnes WA3 8LG
103 RAS Limited North West Chester CH3 5AG
104 Rhino Design North West Ashton-under-Lyne OL6 6XJ
105 ScissorsPaperStone North West Eccles M30 8GH
106 Soda North West Golbourne WA3 3BU
107 Sprinter Printer North West Liverpool L22 4QD
108 The Agency Creative North West Manchester M17 1DZ
109 The Graphics Department North West Salford M3 5DN
110 The Graphics Lounge North West Nelson BB9 5DR
111 The Hub North West Trafford Park M17 1FG
112 Utopia North West Birkenhead CH41 7AB
113 Warrington Store North West Warrington WA1 1EP
114 Wild Thang North West Bootle L31 2HB
115 Bradbury Graphics Northern Ireland Belfast BT7 1BS
116 Mooney Media Northern Ireland County Down BT32 4QD
117 Xpress Creative Northern Ireland Newtonabbey BT36 4PU
118 Academy Press Scotland Livingstone EH54 6QD
119 Color Co. - Edinburgh Scotland Edinburgh EH2 2PA
120 Edinburgh Store Scotland Edinburgh EH3 6QY
121 Glasgow Print Scotland North Glasgow G64 1RX
122 West Glasgow Store Scotland Glasgow G3 8LZ
123 Hamilton (662c) Scotland Hamilton ML3 7AR
124 South Glasgow Store Scotland South Glasgow G5 9RR
125 Tangerine Scotland Stirling FK8 1JW
126 The Business Boutique Scotland Aberdeen AB24 5BW
127 X Display Systems Scotland Coatbridge ML5 4AS
128 Brighton Store South Brighton BN2 8AA
129 Republique South Brighton BN1 4GH
130 Tudor Print South Worthing BN11 1UY
131 Haus of Print South East Andover SP11 6RU
132 Ashford Store South East Ashford TN24 8UU
133 Felix Communications South East Rochester ME2 4HZ
134 Graphics One South East Norwich NR7 0EQ
135 Great Printers South East Newbury RG14 5SA
136 Grow Marketing South East Whitstable CT3 4JH
137 Home Counties Graphics South East Dunstable LU6 1SX
138 Inprint South East Colchester CO1 1PB
139 Jelly Bean Graphics South East Croydon CR9 6YJ
140 Lussh Creative South East Chesterfield S40 2BY
141 Luton Store South East Luton LU1 2PL
142 Mailboxes South East Cambridge CB2 1FD
143 Norfolk Store South East Norwich NR3 1YE
144 Studio Direct South East Chelmsford CM2 6HE
145 That Life Multimedia Centre South East Maidenhead SL6 1NB
146 Think Tank South East Canterbury CT14 7HR
147 TRS Graphics South East Croydon CR2 6EB
148 Anneset South West Weston-Super-Mare BS23 3DE
149 Bournemouth Store South West Bournemouth DT1 1HS
150 Bristol Store South West Bristol BS1 3LZ
151 Chalk & Cheese South West Ruislip HA4 6HH
152 Exeter Store South West Exeter EX4 3AJ
153 Malthouse South West Taunton TA1 3EP
154 Plymouth Store South West Plymouth PL4 0AU
155 Presto Print South West Christchurch BH23 1QD
156 Print Creative South West Bath BA1 2JB
157 Printing South West South West Totnes TQ9 5DW
158 Southampton Store South West Southampton SO15 2AE
159 Wessex Direct South West Minehead TA24 5UB
160 Australian Welsh Wales Cardiff CF14 3JP
161 Cardiff Store Wales Cardiff CF5 1JF
162 Limelight Graphix Wales Bridgend CF31 3SA
163 Colourbox Creative Wales Swansea SA1 5TY