Pulsant Reports 2012 Financial Results

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20 Jun, 2013, 15:34 GMT

READING, England, June 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

- Revenues rose 51 per cent to £30.43m from £20.2m in 2011

- EBITDA rose 41 per cent to £10.08m from £7.16m in 2011

- £13.6 million gross profit

Pulsant, the cloud, colocation and connectivity expert, has announced its financial results for 2012.

"The financial year 2012 was one of change and growth for our business," says Pulsant CEO, Mark Howling. "In March we brought together our three initial organisations under the Pulsant brand, followed by the acquisition of Scolocate in December. We now have 10 data centres throughout the UK, offering our "Triple-A" service model to 3,000 mid-tier and enterprise customers. During this time we have brought true next-generation cloud computing capability to market, this is beginning to see very strong revenue growth. We predict cloud will become an ever more significant revenue stream as more and more companies recognise the benefits of hosting services in the cloud to support mobility, drive performance and offer greater scalability."

Howling added: "The industry continues to face a tough economic outlook, but Pulsant is weathering the storm well with our continued focus on customer service. This is clear from our 95 per cent customer retention rate and the fact Pulsant is the only IT hosting company to have been awarded the Royal Warrant, demonstrating the quality and excellence of the cloud, colocation and managed networking services we provide."

Financial highlights for the financial year ending 31 December 2012:

  • Revenues: rose in headline terms by 51 per cent to £30.43 million from £20.2million on 31 December 2011. EBITDA before exceptional items was £10.08 million, an increase of 41 per cent from £7.16 million in 2011. Colocation accounted for 59 per cent of revenues, hosting/cloud services for 28 per cent and managed networks for the remaining 13 per cent
  • Cash flow: £11.9m of operating cash flow (or 118 per cent of EBITDA) up from £3.27 million for the 15 months to 31 December 2011
  • Profits: Gross profit of £13.6m, operating profit was £2.1m
  • Losses: £3.87 million before tax, £5.07 million after tax
  • Expenditure: Capex accounted for £7.7m of outgoings, while there was a £9.8m cash consideration for Scolocate, £1.8m of deferred consideration, £1.7m of cash interest and £0.6m of tax
  • Funding: Pulsant received £12.3m of new funding, of which £8.3m was investor loan notes
  • Debt: Pulsant ended FY 2012 with gross debt of £84.1m (£42.6m loan notes and £40.9m of bank loans) and net debt of £75.2m
  • FY2012 is the first full year since the acquisition of Lumison, DediPower and Blue Square Data
  • Scolocate, acquired by Pulsant in December 2012, will add £8.5m in revenues and £2.7m in EBITDA

Pulsant was created in November 2010 through the acquisition of Lumison, an Edinburgh-based UK provider of connectivity, hosting and managed IT services, by private equity group, Bridgepoint Development Capital. This was the first step in a 'buy and build' strategy to create a 'one stop shop' IT services supplier to the underserved UK market. Subsequently, Pulsant acquired Blue Square Data, a colocation provider, in February 2011, followed in September 2011 by Dedipower, a managed services provider and operator of three datacentres. In 2012, Pulsant took acquisition of ScoLocate Limited, a managed data centre services business headquartered in Scotland.

For Pulsant's full annual report, please visit http://www.pulsant.com/download/annual-report-2012.pdf

About Pulsant:

Experts in cloud, data centre and infrastructure services, Pulsant specialises in highly resilient, high quality IP network, colocation, managed application and cloud hosting.

  • Pulsant supports more than 3,000 mid-tier and enterprise customers from its ten UK-based ISO 27001 compliant data centres.   
  • Pulsant provides world class technology and exceptional people creating advanced and innovative solutions that optimise performance and cost effectively manage, store and safeguard data. 
  • Pulsant's 'Triple-A' service models ensures the right 'Access, Ability and Action' to deliver 24/7 support from multiple UK-based operation centres. 
  • 100% of the energy used within Pulsant's data centres is from renewable sources.  

For more information, please visit http://www.pulsant.com

Pulsant Press Contacts:
Leila Hrycyszyn
Whiteoaks
Tel: +44-(0)1252-727313 ext. 272
E-mail: pulsant@whiteoaks.co.uk