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New Clients and Strengthened Team
It has been a productive few months for all at ICIS seeing a number of exciting new clients join our growing roster. We have also added experience and freshness to our advisory team with the appointments of a new Director and Account Executive – taking our consultants to nine. Our role as the City’s only financial PR agency for the TMT sectors is, we believe, beginning to pay dividends for our clients.
Our view is that in these times of economic uncertainty companies require a team that truly adds the experience and expertise that only a specialist can provide. Our clear USP is being part of the City’s TMT community and this means we can deliver that level of service where our competitors do not. We talk to the people that influence outcomes every single day, ensuring our clients receive more accurate and more frequent press coverage, have better attended analyst / PCB presentations and generally receive the best professional service of any PR in the City.
New Clients
Five new AIM listed technology stocks have joined the books since early June. We now advise 18 companies across the Main Market and AIM, with one on the Borsa Italia and two further non-listed. Our new clients are:
SQS Software Quality Services AG (AIM: SQS)
SQS is the global leader in independent software testing and quality management services. SQS consultants design and oversee quality management processes during software and IT systems development and test the resulting products for errors and omissions.
Headquartered in Cologne, Germany, SQS now has more than 1,400 employees across Europe, Asia and in Africa. With more than 4,800 completed projects under its belt, SQS has a strong customer base including 36 FTSE-100 companies, half of the DAX 30 and nearly a third of the STOXX-50. It supports clients in a wide range of industries, including major corporations such as Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Telekom, Barclays, BP, Boots, Credit Suisse, Volkswagen, and Daimler.
ANT plc (AIM: ANTP)
ANT is a leading provider of client software solutions and services to the digital media industry. It develops open-standards-based client software and applications enabling operators to exploit digital media across a broad range of consumer devices from TV set-top boxes (STB) and Personal Video Recorder/DVD players, to portable media devices such as personal computers and personal media players, regardless of content delivery platform.
ANT enables media driven organisations to quickly create and roll-out innovative and successful applications and TV services on any consumer device, enabling operators to attract new subscribers, reduce churn and increase average revenue per user.
WIN plc (AIM: WNN)
WIN is a dynamic enabler of entertainment, information and interaction services in the mobile media environment. Through innovation, WIN helps leading content owners, mobile operators, corporate enterprises and media and entertainment corporations engage consumers, create brand loyalty, maximise revenues and reduce costs.
CustomVis plc (AIM: CUS)
CustomVis is an innovative company in the laser vision correction industry, with a focus on custom surgery. The CustomVis PULZAR Z1 system incorporates a solid state laser, solid state scanning integrated with rapid eye tracking devices to track the movement of the patient's eye, and the ability to incorporate data from a variety of diagnostic systems into surgical planning software and the treatment process. The Group has over 35 lasers in multiple locations across the globe.
LED International Holdings Ltd (AIM: LED)
LED International and its subsidiaries specialise in the development, manufacture and sale of low powered / low maintenance LED screens and other LED products such as outdoor signs, lamps, lighting and building illumination. The screens are manufactured in a ‘building block’ format to a specific design, which allows screens to be assembled to suit a customer’s size and definition specifications.
This design also ensures that the screens are relatively easy to transport and assemble. Based in Hong Kong, the Group’s primary market has been the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”), but it has also supplied end products to Macau, Japan and the USA. Part of the Group’s strategy in 2007 was to widen its customer base to markets outside PRC.
Strengthened Team
We have been joined by two new consultants who have already contributed to the success of the firm. Christian Taylor-Wilkinson joined us in June as a Director and brings with him 16 years of experience from his background in corporate finance, investor relations and financial PR – all of which has been spent within the TMT sectors.
And finally, our new graduate, Hilary Millar, joined us in September from my old alma mater, the London School of Economics, where she received her MSc in Environment and Development studies. Hilary is a Canadian national and has most recently worked as a Project Officer at the Carbon Disclosure Project. Her role, for the next few months, will involve market research and news monitoring for the team.
ICIS Commitment
And so, as we move into the final quarter of the year, thoughts will already be turning towards 2009 and what it might bring. If the last few weeks show us anything it is difficult to predict the exact timing or, the extent of changes in economic and market conditions.
Our commitment to our clients is that we will help them navigate through stormy seas should they confront them and look forward to their future success. With our existing clients we are starting that planning process now and we look forward to assisting others with preparing for 2009.
Tom Moriarty
CEO, ICIS
02 October 2008