Sales increase by 15% over FY2013 results
CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwired - April 20, 2015) - Quorum Information Technologies Inc. ("Quorum" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:QIS) today released its Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 results. Quorum delivers its dealership management system (DMS), XSellerator™, and related services to automotive dealerships throughout North America. The Company is both a Dealer Technology Assistance Program (DTAP) strategic partner with General Motors Corporation (GM) and a strategic partner with Microsoft. Quorum's XSellerator product is broadly promoted to its target dealerships throughout North America by these prominent industry partners. Quorum also supplies its product to Chrysler, Hyundai, Kia, Nissan, Subaru, NAPA and Bumper to Bumper franchised dealership customers as well as other franchised, independent and some non-automotive dealerships.
Maury Marks, Quorum's President and CEO made the following remarks about the Company's FY2014 operational and financial results:
Operational results highlights for FY2014 are as follows:
Dealership Success Scorecard
Communicator - Dealerships trained: 138 | % of our customers: 48% | |
Messages in Feb 2015: 187,840 (9,292 per day) | Year over year message growth: 340% | |
M3 (VIP only) - Dealerships trained: 41 | % of our customers: 14% |
Total Feb 2015 incremental CP revenue: $2,499,235 Year over year revenue growth: 215%
Feb 2015 average incremental customer pay (CP) revenue: $60,957 per dealership
Financial Results highlights for FY2014 are as follows:
Quorum invested significantly in our XSellerator product in 2014 by converting Sean Sargent Toyota and making significant improvements in Communicator, Make More Money and Sales CRM. By leveraging our product innovations, improving product utilization and providing superior levels of customer service we were able to achieve 15% revenue growth for the year. In 2015 we will continue to invest to grow revenues and open up new market opportunities.
Quorum has filed its 2014 consolidated financial statements and notes thereto as at and for the period ended December 31, 2014 and accompanying management's discussion and analysis in accordance with National Instrument 51-102 - Continuous Disclosure Obligations adopted by the Canadian securities regulatory authorities. Additional information about Quorum will be available on Quorum's SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com and Quorum's website at www.QuorumDMS.com.
Financial Highlights
Year ended December 31, 2014 |
Year ended December 31, 2013 |
Year ended December 31, 2012 |
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Gross revenue | $ 9,215,768 | $ 7,986,772 | $ 7,566,580 | ||
Direct costs | 4,197,747 | 3,499,641 | 3,453,317 | ||
Margin after direct costs | 5,018,021 | 4,487,131 | 4,113,263 | ||
Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) | 1,476,110 |
1,254,890 |
847,906 |
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Income before deferred income tax | 502,087 | 470,924 | 188,588 | ||
Net income (loss) | 192,516 | 294,686 | (65,237 | ) | |
Comprehensive income (loss) | 308,761 | 409,402 | (118,488 | ) | |
Basic net income (loss) per share | $ 0.0046 | $ 0.008 | $ (0.002 | ) | |
Fully diluted net income (loss) per share | $ 0.0046 | $ 0.008 | $ (0.002 | ) | |
Weighted average number of common shares | |||||
Basic | 41,529,838 | 39,298,438 | 39,298,438 | ||
Diluted | 41,818,297 | 39,298,438 | 39,298,438 | ||
About Quorum
Quorum is a North American company focused on developing, marketing, implementing and supporting its XSellerator product for GM, Chrysler, Hyundai, KIA, Nissan, Subaru, NAPA and Bumper to Bumper dealerships. XSellerator is a dealership and customer management software product that automates, integrates and streamlines every process across departments in a dealership. One of the select North American suppliers under General Motors' DTAP program, Quorum is also one of largest DMS provider for GM's Canadian dealerships with 25% of the market. Quorum is a Microsoft Partner in both Canada and the United States. Quorum Information Technologies Inc. is traded on the Toronto Venture Exchange (TSX-V) under the symbol QIS. For additional information please go to www.QuorumDMS.com.
Forward-Looking Information
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Forward-looking information is not a guarantee of future performance and involves a number of risks and uncertainties some of which are described herein. Such forward-looking information necessarily involves known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause Quorum's actual performance and financial results in future periods to differ materially from any projections of future performance or results expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. These risks and uncertainties include but are not limited to the risks identified in Quorum's Management's Discussion and Analysis for the year ended December 31, 2014. Any forward-looking information is made as of the date hereof and, except as required by law, Quorum assumes no obligation to publicly update or revise such information to reflect new information, subsequent or otherwise.
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