Anoto Group 2007 Year-end Report
• Fourth quarter sales were SEK 45 million (29). January-December sales rose by 55% to SEK 169 million (109).
• The group's gross margin for the fourth quarter was 77% (62), while the gross profit was up by 94% to SEK 35 million (18). The gross margin for January-December was 77% (72), while the gross profit was SEK 129 million (78).
• Excluding depreciation and amortisation, earnings for the fourth quarter were SEK 0 million (–30). Excluding depreciation and amortisation, the January-December profit was SEK 6 million (–104).
• The loss after taxes was SEK –2 million (–40) for the fourth quarter and SEK –8 million (–133) for January-December.
• Earnings per share totalled SEK –0.02 (–0.31) for the fourth quarter and SEK –0.06 (–1.03) for January-December.
• Cash flow amounted to SEK –29 million (–24) for the fourth quarter and SEK –49 million (–32) for January-December.
Operations
• The number of active forms users continued to increase to 110, 000. In the fourth quarter they had doubled, compared with the fourth quarter 2006.
• Anoto obtained a breakthrough order in the Chinese market of 5,000 pens to be used in the labelling, inspection and maintenance of public fire extinguishers.
• Anoto licensed its pen and paper technology for EUR 600,000 to T-Systems in Germany for further development of mobile and electronic signature solutions.
• Destiny in the UK acquired Logitech's assets and intellectual rights to the io2 digital pen, which is based on Anoto Technology. The io2 pen will be part of Anoto's product assortment.
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