BiznessOnline.com announces First Quarter Results Revenues Increase 862%.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers WALL, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 15, 2000 BiznessOnline.com, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on NM: BIZZ) today reported results for the quarter ended March 31, 2000. Revenues for the quarter increased 862% to $4,077,000 from $424,000 for the same period of 1999. Revenues for the first quarter of 2000 do not include the results of Telecon Communications, Inc. and Telesupport, Inc., both of which were acquired on March 31, 2000. The revenues for Telecon and Telesupport for the first quarter of 2000 were $2,818,000. Our annualized annualized Of or relating to a variable that has been mathematically converted to a yearly rate. Inflation and interest rates are generally annualized since it is on this basis that these two variables are ordinarily stated and compared. revenue run rate, including Telecon and Telesupport, is now approximately $28 million which does not reflect anticipated sales of Telecon's telecommunications products and services which we expect to cross sell to our existing customer base. The significant increase in revenues is attributable to the acquisitions we completed during 1999, combined with internal growth. Net loss for the quarter ended March 31, 2000 was $3,382,000 or $0.39 per share, as compared to a net loss of $140,000, or $0.04 per share for the quarter ended March 31, 1999. The net loss for both periods is primarily attributable to depreciation and amortization of goodwill associated with the acquisitions. For the quarter ended March 31, 2000, depreciation was $405,000 and amortization of goodwill was $1,739,000. The EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization) A metric used to show a company's profitability, but not its cash flow. EBITDA became popular in the 1980s to show the potential profitability of leveraged buyouts, but has become loss for the quarter ended March 31, 2000 was $1,148,000, as compared to a loss of $12,000 for the same period in 1999. EBITDA for the quarter ended March 31, 2000 included corporate overhead associated with the rapid expansion of the BiznessOnline.com corporate entity, which did not have significant operations until the second quarter of 1999. The Company also incurred approximately $673,000 for the quarter ended March 31, 2000 of expenses associated with integrating the five companies acquired in the first half and 1999 and the six companies acquired in the second half of 1999, during the first quarter of 2000. Also, during the quarter, we made further investments in our infrastructure by expanding our technical and service staff at our call center located in Albany, New York For other uses, see Albany. Albany is the capital of the State of New York and the county seat of Albany County. Albany lies 136 miles (219 km) north of New York City, and slightly to the south of the juncture of the Mohawk and Hudson Rivers. to provide for 24 hour by 7 day customer support. We also hired an additional 15 full time sales people to complement our existing New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and Connecticut sales force and to further penetrate the small to medium sized business market in the New York and Connecticut market area.
BiznessOnline.com, Inc.
Income Statement
(In Thousands, except share and per share data)
(unaudited)
For the Three Months Ended
March 31, 2000 March 31, 1999
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Revenues $ 4,077 $ 424
Connectivity and
Operations 3,359 141
Selling, General and
Administrative 1,866 295
Amortization 1,739 102
Depreciation 405 25
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Total Expenses 7,369 563
Operating Loss (3,292) (139)
Interest Income
(Expense), net 4 (1)
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Loss Before Taxes (3,288) (140)
Income Tax Expense 94 -
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Net Loss $(3,382) $(140)
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EBITDA $( 1,148) (12)
Net Loss per share $(.39) $(.04)
Weighted Average
shares Outstanding 8,614,297 3,325,497
BiznessOnline.com is one of the Northeast's leading enhanced IP services companies, and is a premier regional provider of advanced co-location, Web design and hosting services, and high-speed Internet See broadband. access for commercial and residential markets. BiznessOnline.com satisfies the growing Web and Internet needs of small and mid-sized business by offering enhanced IP application, development and support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services . In addition the Company provides secure broadband Internet See broadband. connections via BiznessOnline.com's fault-tolerant, fiber-optic backbone network A backbone network provides a path for the exchange of information between different LANs or subnetworks.[1] A backbone can tie together diverse networks in the same building, in different buildings in a campus environment, or over wide areas. , which is supported by 24x7 customer care and network monitoring The term network monitoring describes the use of a system that constantly monitors a computer network for slow or failing systems and that notifies the network administrator in case of outages via email, pager or other alarms. . BiznessOnline.com's corporate offices are located in Wall, NJ, and the Company can be found on the World Wide Web at www.biznessonline.com. "Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. " Statement under the Private Securities Litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. Reform Act of 1995: Certain of these statements contained in this release which are not historical facts are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statements, including the uncertainties inherent in the process of auditing and making end-of-year adjustments to a corporation's financial statements, risks related to the Company's growth strategy, the ability to complete and integrate acquisitions, market demand for the Company's services, and other factors affecting the Company's prospects as described in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the Company's prospectus in its Form SB-2 registration statement. By making these forward-looking statements, the Company undertakes no obligation to update these statements for revisions or changes after the date of this release. L.G. Zangani, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control provides financial public relations Financial public relations Public relations division of a company charged with cultivating positive investor relations and proper disclosure information. service to the Company, As such L.G. Zangani, LLC and/or its officers, agents and employees, receives remuneration for public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most and or other services in the form of moneys, capital stock in the Company, warrants or options to purchase capital in the Company. |
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