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13 March 2007
Financial News
ESI Group 2006/07 Annual Sales: €66m - Q4 2006 Licence Sales: +11.7%
ESI Group announced its consolidated sales for its fourth quarter and full year to 31 st January 2007.
Consolidated data
Details of Q4 quarterly sales
(€m) |
2006/07 |
2005/06 |
% change (real) |
% change (volume) |
Licence sales |
23.1 |
20.7 |
+11.7% |
+13.9% |
Services and other revenue |
3.9 |
4.1 |
-4.2% |
-2.2% |
Total Q4 sales |
27.00 |
24.7 |
+9.1% |
|
Quarter to 31 st January
Sales recorded over the fourth quarter represented 41% of the Group's annual consolidated sales, reflecting the traditional major seasonal effect of our activity.
Sales break down in Q4 as follows:
• buoyant activity for licences, whose sales were up +13.9% on a constant exchange rate basis and +11.7% in real terms,
• a slip of -2.2% for the services activity on a constant exchange rate basis and -4.2% in real terms, a trend that incorporates a significant upturn in this activity in Q4 compared to Q3.
Details of annual sales
(€m) |
2006/07 |
2005/06 |
% change (real) |
% change (volume) |
Licence sales |
53.2 |
48.6 |
+9.5% |
+11.2% |
Services and other revenue |
12.9 |
13.6 |
-5.6% |
-4.9% |
Total annual sales |
66.0 |
62.2 |
+6.2% |
+7.6% |
FY to 31 st January
2006/07 annual sales totalled 66.0 million euros, yielding a growth of +6.2% compared to the previous financial year, and +7.6% on a constant exchange rate basis. This growth in activity integrates no changes in perimeter and breaks down as follows:
• a significant acceleration in the growth of licence sales (81% of total sales), which grew by +11.2% in volume terms over the 2006/07 financial year, versus +7.0% the previous year. This good performance illustrates the efficiency of the growth relays contributed by our emerging and innovative products. Licence sales recurrence remains high at 85%;
• a slip in services activity of -5.6% over the financial year, although stable over the first half of the year and in strong recovery in the fourth quarter following previous quarters impacted by unfavourable conjunctural factors.
Note that the services booking taken from our top twenty clients rose by +14%, illustrating the substantial complementarity of services and licences activities for large OEMs.
The geographical split of global activity (America: 17%; Asia: 36%; Europe: 47%) confirms the remarkable surge of Asia, and validates ESI Group's positioning-strengthening strategy in this geographical zone where international OEMs are increasingly present. Indeed, licence sales recorded in Asia were up +20.6% (+24.5% at constant exchange rates ), essentially due to China, Korea and India, despite a slowdown in Japan which was further affected by the weakening Yen.
Alain de ROUVRAY, ESI Group's Chairman and CEO, comments: " We are pleased with the growth in our licences activity. In particular, growth was buoyant in Asia, where emerging areas with substantial development potential also contributed to the sectorial diversification of our sales, in particular in the aeronautical sector. Although our services activity was significantly impacted by conjunctural events over the last year, its upturn towards the end of the year resulted from a substantial improvement in the economic climate and the development of certain new sectors such as electronuclear. Services should be further consolidated by the commercialisation of a restructured offer and the launch of promising cofinanced and innovative projects ."
For further information, visit http://www.esi-group.com .
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