Printer Friendly
The Free Library
19,573,952 articles and books
Member login
User name  
Password 
 
Join us Forgot password?

Adamind IPO Raises Approximately GBP 15 Million at GBP 46.7 Million Valuation Publication of Prospectus.


RA'ANANA, Israel -- Adamind Ltd. (Adamind or "the Company") announces that it will today publish its prospectus and submit its application for the admission ("Admission") of its ordinary shares ("Ordinary Shares") to trading on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange London Stock Exchange

London marketplace for securities. It was formed in 1773 by a group of stockbrokers who had been doing business informally in local coffeehouses.
 ("AIM"). Admission is expected to become effective, and trading in the Company's ordinary shares is expected to commence, on 21 February 2005. The Company's ticker will be "ADA Ada, city, United States
Ada (ā`ə), city (1990 pop. 15,820), seat of Pontotoc co., S central Okla.; inc. 1904. It is a large cattle market and the center of a rich oil and ranch area.
".

The Company also announces that it has raised approximately GBP GBP

In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the British Pound.

Notes:
The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion.
 15 million before expenses, in a placing (the "Placing") with UK institutions, underwritten by Bridgewell, of 11,363,636 new ordinary shares at a price of 132 pence per share (the "Placing Price"). On Admission, the Company will have 35,363,636 ordinary shares in issue and a market capitalisation Noun 1. market capitalisation - an estimation of the value of a business that is obtained by multiplying the number of shares outstanding by the current price of a share
market capitalization
, at the Placing Price, of approximately GBP 46.7 million. The existing shareholders in Adamind are not selling any shares in the Placing which was significantly oversubscribed Refers to connecting more users to a system than can be fully supported if all of them were using it at the same time. Networks and servers are almost always designed with some amount of oversubscription, counting on the fact that everybody does not need the service simultaneously. .

Rationale for the IPO (Initial Public Offering) The first time a company offers shares of stock to the public. While not a computer term per se, many founders, employees and insiders of computer companies have found this acronym more exciting than any tech term they ever heard. :

The Directors believe that in order to capitalise on the opportunities available in the Company's markets and enable management to focus its efforts solely on media technologies for the mobile infrastructure, it is appropriate for Adamind to seek to establish an independent identity.

The Directors believe that Admission and the proceeds from the Placing will provide the Company with the financial flexibility necessary for it to build effectively upon its established position as a leader in the media adaptation technology market and to capitalise on the predicted growth of the Mobile Content Services market as a whole.

Bridgewell is the Company's nominated adviser and broker.

Commenting on the Placing, Shailendra Jain, Chief Executive Officer of Adamind said: "We are delighted about the overwhelming response from the institutional shareholders. The proceeds of the Placing will enhance our profile with both current and future customers and give us the resources to materially increase our sales and marketing effort to take full advantage of the forecast growth in the sector."

Eli Reifman, Chief Executive Officer of Emblaze em·blaze 1  
tr.v. em·blazed, em·blaz·ing, em·blaz·es
1. To set on fire.

2. To cause to glow; light up.
 said: "Our early entry into a market that we believed would be bigger than SMS (1) (Storage Management System) Software used to routinely back up and archive files. See HSM.

(2) (Systems Management Server) Systems management software from Microsoft that runs on Windows NT Server.
 has positioned Adamind as a leading software company that sits in the heart of practically every major MMSC vendors system. This IPO will give Adamind the visibility and incentivise its management and employees to maximize the expected strong growth in their market."

NOTES TO EDITORS

Company Overview

Adamind is a provider of media adaptation software that enables multimedia content applications and services to be accessible across disparate types of consumer devices such as mobile phones, personal digital assistants ("PDAs") and personal computers ("PCs").

Adamind's core solution is branded MediaSpire and is primarily targeted at multimedia messaging service See MMS.  centre ("MMSC") vendors competing in the multimedia messaging service ("MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) An enhanced transmission service that enables graphics, video clips and sound files to be transmitted via cellphones. Developed as part of the 3GPP project, MMS phones are generally backward compatible with SMS and EMS. ") infrastructure arena, mobile telecoms operators ("Operators") and providers of content services accessible over mobile wireless networks ("Content Providers"). Adamind sells software licenses for its media adaptation products on an initial licence fee basis, a usage capacity basis and also charges a recurring annual support fee.

Adamind's technologies solve the problem of person-to-person ("P2P See peer-to-peer and point-to-point. ") media transmission (one person sending images, video and ring tones, for example, to another person) between devices that are incompatible due to differing configurations and enable Operators to launch commercial MMS services that are available across a variety of different mobile phones and other devices. In addition, Adamind's solution provides media adaptation for the application-to-person ("A2P A2P Application to Person
A2P ATLASS II+
") content delivery market to enable A2P content services to take place. A2P defines premium content services which originate from Operators or Content Providers and are targeted to many consumers at the same time. As part of its A2P media adaptation offering, Adamind can offer further value-added services embedded within its software solution which could, for example, include an advertising and branding platform.

Adamind was established as a separate company in 2004 following the merger of the media adaptation business units of Emblaze (LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor : BLZ BLZ Bankleitzahl (German bank code)
BLZ Belize (ISO Country code)
BLZ Bladzijde (Dutch: page)
BLZ Bayerische Landeszentrale für Politische Bildungsarbeit
) and Philips (AEX AEX

See: Amsterdam Exchange
: PHIA PHIA Personal Health Information Act (Canada)
PHIA Plumbing and Heating Industry Alliance (United Kingdom) 
, NYSE NYSE

See: New York Stock Exchange
: PHG) with the goal of forming a global leader in media adaptation technology.

MMS Overall Market Development

The market in which Operators participate is highly competitive and they are continually focused on gaining subscribers and improving average revenue per user ("ARPU (Average Revenue Per User) A calculation often used to determine the overall value of an application. It is also used to rate particular customers, especially in the wireless space, by comparing someone's account to the overall average. ") which has traditionally been driven by voice calls. However, despite the rise in overall number of subscribers, Operators' ARPU has steadily declined over the past 10 years as air time has become commoditised and voice call revenues and profits have decreased. Faced with this, Operators have aggressively sought data based ARPU generators. These include the short message service ("SMS"), MMS, games and other content services. With the significant historic success of SMS and the expected plateauing of revenue from SMS in key global regions, Operators are now investing in the natural evolution of SMS, MMS, with the expectation of achieving similar rates of growth and revenue.

MMS based services are considered by the Operators to be a key factor in generating ARPU growth and reducing churn. MMS enabled handsets have been growing and are expected to represent approximately 50 per cent. of all handsets sold in 2004, creating the demand required for the launch of commercial MMS services into the market. Mobile phone vendors such as Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Siemens and Sony-Ericsson, that currently account for approximately 70 per cent. of the MMS handsets manufactured, continue to introduce new MMS enabled phones to the market on a regular basis. The Directors believe around $3 billion will be spent on MMS infrastructure in the next 4 years.

With their focus on MMS services, Operators must make interoperability between devices a certainty by employing media adaptation technologies for a seamless usage experience independent of the source and destination device types. Without media adaptation, almost every MMS transaction will be a lost transaction as messages will not reach the target user or will reach them in an illegible il·leg·i·ble  
adj.
Not legible or decipherable.



il·legi·bil
 or distorted format.

The Directors believe that the growth in mobile messaging media adaptation will be driven by the growth in MMS usage. The P2P MMS services and usage market is forecast to grow to $13 billion in 2008, of which the Directors estimate the MMSC related vendor's revenue to be $1 billion. The Directors believe media adaptation represents between $100 million and $200 million of the MMSC related vendor's revenue.

Key Advantages of Adamind's Technology

The Directors believe that Adamind has now established itself as a leading media adaptation technology provider for MMS and that the following factors differentiate Adamind from its competitors and represent barriers to entry for potential entrants:

Multi-Format Adaptation - The multi-format approach enables the service provider to build a product with a clear upgrade path to support the next generation of devices, formats, media types, protocols and services.

Modular Architecture - To address the challenge of multi-component integration (i.e. media adaptation, message adaptation, Device Management Tool and unlimited applications) while reducing MMSC vendor dependency and maintaining the ability to easily support, upgrade and maintain the system, Adamind has developed a set of Application Programming Interfaces that allow quick and easy integration to any existing or future MMS or content download platform.

Applications Over Core - Adamind's MediaSpire technology is easily extendable into other applications which ensures a short development cycle and a low cost of ownership for each and every application added into MediaSpire. Such applications will include value added Value Added

The enhancement a company gives its product or service before offering the product to customers.

Notes:
This can either increase the products price or value.
 services such as advertisement, digital rights management and anti-abuse software which can be built on top of the core platform, thus reducing the time and resources required for further development and customisation.

Proven Product - Adamind currently has over 80 operational deployments and continues to build more as a result of the strong relationships it has established with the MMSC vendors. Adamind's technology is now known and accepted in the market and both MMSC vendors and Operators are keen to work with them.
COPYRIGHT 2005 Business Wire
No portion of this article can be reproduced without the express written permission from the copyright holder.
Copyright 2005, Gale Group. All rights reserved. Gale Group is a Thomson Corporation Company.

 Reader Opinion

Title:

Comment:



 

Article Details
Printer friendly Cite/link Email Feedback
Publication:Business Wire
Date:Feb 14, 2005
Words:1297
Previous Article:Carrier Access Announces Next Generation FLEXengine Packet Radio Access Network Solutions at 3GSM World Congress.
Next Article:NicOx Selected to Join European Community Network of Excellence, EICOSANOX.



Related Articles
INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERINGS PAY OFF : 4 VALLEY COMPANIES RIDING STRONG MARKET.
NTL Incorporated Announces Results for Three and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2003.
Norwood Immunology Intends AU$280 Million Float on London's Alternative Investment Market.
XL TechGroup Announces Initial Public Offering; Common Stock Trading On London AIM Exchange.
AMVESCAP PLC Reports Results for Year Ended December 31, 2004.
Reuters Group Plc - Preliminary Results.
Adamind Ltd: First Day of Dealings on the Alternative Investment Market.
Amphion Innovations Announces Further Investment.
Adamind Named as One of the Top 10 Emerging Wireless Players to Watch by IDC; IDC Recognizes Adamind's Critical Role in Enabling Wireless...
A.M. Best Affirms Rating of Sunderland Marine Mutual Insurance Company Limited; Assigns Issuer Credit Rating.

Terms of use | Copyright © 2012 Farlex, Inc. | Feedback | For webmasters | Submit articles