NETB2B2 (AIM:NEB)
Software & Computer Services
http://www.netb2b2.com/


Strategy
The overriding business objective of the company is to become a leading provider of Internet-based business-to-business services. This objective is to be achieved through:
the acquisition of business service providers, where ownership by the Company will lead to enhanced market penetration and appropriate extensions to product offering; and
investment in and development of Internet-based business-to-business concepts.

Contact Details
Netb2b2 PLC
20/26 Brunswick Place,
London N1 6DZ

E-mail: Info@netb2b2.com
Investor Relations: IR@netb2b2.com


This technology services minnow is benefiting from restructuring its business, with a reduced loss in spite of a lower turnover. The company made a small trading profit - of 2,000 - which should bode well for the current financial year. Of its three trading divisions, cScape seems to be doing the best, winning a number of new projects and benefiting from the government's e-government initiative.
NetB2B2's publishing division ITM Graphics would appear to be breaking-even, while IBM business partner Blue Sky has changed its focus to higher margin hosting business, having shut down its consulting activities.

Shares says: Looks better placed after its share reorganisation and fund raising.

Normal market size:5,000
% spread: 21.4%


Highlights of ongoing group

Turnover 5.1million (2002: 5.7 million)

Ebitda 280,000 (2002: Loss 501,000)

Trading profit 2,000 (2002: Loss 0.973m)

Loss per share 0.07p (2002: Loss 0.84p)

Increase in operating companies client bases

Cash generative and profitable performance for cScape

Successful capital re-organisation

Successful placings raising 350,000 net of expenses


RNS Number:2696U
Net b2b2 PLC
15 January 2004

Netb2b2 plc

LAUNCH OF NEW CMS WIZARD IN CONJUNCTION WITH MICROSOFT
RESULT OF AGM

Netb2b2 plc, the AIM listed digital services group announces that its wholly
owned subsidiary company cScape Ltd has today launched a new Wizard tool
- The CMS Wizard, which will be given worldwide marketing support by Microsoft.

CMS Wizard has been jointly developed with Danish firm Mondosoft, and provides a
cost-effective way of building and maintaining a website. The CMS Wizard will
retail for $1,999.99 and is licensed on a per server basis. Revenue will be
split between the two firms.

The CMS Wizard requires minimal technical skills and has been developed to
create professional content managed websites from scratch within minutes.
Designed specifically to plug into both Standard and Enterprise editions of
Microsoft's Content Management Server, the CMS Wizard contains a range of
website styles designed to suit different organisational structures and comes
complete with an integrated search facility.

Netb2b2 plc Managing Director, Andy Gannon commented: "cScape has worked closely
with Microsoft Corp for over ten months to develop this product. Microsoft
promoted the CMS Wizard internationally to thousands of their Partners and
valuable feedback was canvassed from these parties to ensure the CMS Wizard
fully meets the needs of the partner community."

"We expect the product to be particularly successful in the public sectors,
particularly at the local government level. However, demand should also be
strong in corporates at a departmental level, where up until now they have
faced many deployment challenges when implementing a content management system
- a lack of relevant technical skills, prohibitive costs and lengthy timescales.
Using the CMS Wizard in conjunction with Microsoft's Content Management Server
companies can overcome these challenges by speedily creating well designed,
searchable, CMS-enabled websites at a fraction of the cost of previous
implementations."

Keith Young, Chairman, commenting at the Annual General Meeting of Netb2b2 plc
held today where all resolutions put to the meeting were duly passed, added:
"The positive trends mentioned in my chairman's statement of 19 November have
continued and we continue to place emphasis on both organic and acquisitive
growth going forward. It is very pleasing that our .Net Tools wizard has been
launched today in conjunction with Microsoft."

The CMS Wizard is available to purchase on-line at www.cms-wizard.com.

For further information, please contact:

Andrew Gannon Theresa Clifford John West / Claire Melly
Netb2b2 plc cScape Tavistock Communications
Tel: 020 7878 1007 Tel: 020 7689 8800 Tel 020 7920 3150





This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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Current Price: 0.95-1.15 pence.

3 million buy reported at 1.08 pence.

Netb2b2 PLC is a holding company with three operating subsidiaries at present, ITM Graphics Limited, cScape Strategic Internet Services Limited, Blue Sky. Netb2b2 intends to make further acquisitions soon in accordance with its strategy.

ITM Graphics Limited
ITM is a magazine and newspaper production company providing outsourced services for a number of publications, both with controlled and non-controlled circulation, and operates and provides a range of services for the publishing sector. ITM has a strong and well-established client base and its clients include Haymarket Publishing, Macmillan Magazines and Emap plc.

ITM's historic business has been to exploit a strong record in traditional pre-press work for magazines and periodicals. Its principal activities are pre-press and management services. Pre-press includes, among other things, data entry, typesetting, scanning, proof reading, page layout, proofing and the creation and storage of data files as well as the creation of colour separated film negatives. ITM has an established industry reputation for the delivery of quality work on time and on budget.

ITM has an experienced management team as well as a skilled workforce qualified in the use of modern high technology digital equipment and computer software. The company currently employs over 90 full-time staff at its London head office.

The directors believe that many opportunities exist for the scaling of ITM's activities in terms of the management of content, web design and the provision of integrated web content management services, which will assist greatly in the delivery of the essential elements of the Group's strategy.




cScape Strategic Internet Services Limited
cScape provides the skills and services necessary for its clients to best use the Internet to achieve their business aims. cScape brings together strategic, creative and technical skills within a rapidly changing business environment: cScape is as flexible as the market itself.

The Internet holds tremendous possibilities for every sector, transforming processes and services, simultaneously fortifying and streamlining businesses. The importance of a Web presence today is universally acknowledged, but the best means of using that Web presence to advantage are rarely clear, and the requisite skills to use that Web presence effectively are rarely to hand. This is where cScape comes in, with clear solutions and five years experience as a leading Web consultancy.

cScape works closely with its clients on their Web strategy, and can attend to any part of that strategy: cScape build, design and promote Web sites and offer advice and consultancy on all aspects of Web sites. cScape comes in at any stage of a business's development, and offers everything from highly particularised work to a full, integrated end-to-end solution.

The cScape website - www.cscape.com




Blue Sky
Blue Sky is arguably the UK's most innovative IBM business partner working with Lotus groupware technologies (including Notes and Domino). Formed in 1995 at the beginning of the commercial internet era it has focused on e-business services to customers built in smart, highly productive ways on IBM technology.

Blue Sky nurtures and exploits its relationship with the IBM community to generate business opportunities and reputation-building activities. It is now at the point where it has leadership positions in creative design implementation on Lotus Domino, in the deployment of Lotus Domino based content management, in the hosting and management of Rentable Applications build on Lotus Notes applications, in the deployment of Lotus stand-alone ASP applications for collaboration and in the fully managed hosting of Lotus Domino servers based on Linux.

Currently half of Blue Sky's new business is generated via referrals from the IBM community, be it IBM technical personnel, account managers or business partners, and the other half is created by Blue Sky's generalised proposition that amounts to it being a full-services e-business/web services agency.

is there any reason why the share price has not risen today considering the amount of trading that there has been today after such a jump yesterday ?

Results out next week? Can anyone confirm?
cheers.

Results are due towards end of March 2004.

The share price has not risen today because there is a seller who is clearing out stock. Hopefully it should have finished today as we have seen a 3,000,000 buy at 1.08 pence and a 1,000,000 buy at 1.18 pence.
Once the seller clears out the price should start rising.
An excellent medium/long term hold in the meantime.

At the open, the price did rise to 1.0-1.2 pence, but the market makers must have received instructions that the seller wishes to sell more stock. Hence they were happy to take them off the seller around 0.9 and 0.95 pence all day.

Should start rising hopefully from Monday.

Thanks. SH

Events

Recent and forthcoming events where the CMS Wizard is being demonstrated.

Microsoft EMEA Portals & Integration Airlift >
2 February 2004
Nice, France

Microsoft Partner Advisory Council >
27 January 2004
Seattle, USA

Neutral (Medium term) - Jan 16, 2004
Has risen 86% since the bottom on 24 Mar 2003 at 0.50. Is within a falling trend and continued decline within the current trend is indicated. On reactions back, there is resistance against the ceiling of the trend channel. Has met the objective at 1.09 after a break of a rectangle formation. The price has now fallen, but the formation indicates further rise. The stock has support at p 0.60. Poor liquidity (traded 55% of the days, mean 3.00 mill per day) weakens the analysis.

The price has now fallen, but the formation indicates further rise.

Bullish - volume balance, all positive (source:investtech)

http://www.investtech.com/main/market.php?CompanyID=44102175

Neutral (Short term) - Jan 16, 2004
Has risen 69% since the bottom on 1 Dec 2003 at 0.55. Is within a rising trend, which indicates a continued growth. The stock has support at p 0.75. The poor liquidity of the stock (traded 55% of the days, mean 3.00 mill per day) may weaken the analysis.

Short term bullish as well.

Pre-market up 7.6%, price 0.95-1.15 pence.

Price 1.05-1.2 pence now, could be about to breakout past the resistance at 1.15 pence.

Price 1.05-1.25 pence, up 17.9%. Quite a few delayed buys would start coming through later I would imagine.

Price 1.2-1.4 pence now, up 33.3%. Quite a few good delayed buys starting to come through around 1.12 pence.
There is not a lot stopping this now and I would imagine we will pause for a breath around 2.25 pence all dips in between are buying oppurtunities.

Delayed 454,787 buy reported at 1.14 pence from an hour ago.

From Today's Leaders and Laggards:

AIM-listed digital services group Netb2b2 put on 12.8% to 1.1p. On 15 January it said its wholly owned subsidiary cScape Ltd has launched a new tool for building and maintaining a website, the CMS Wizard, which will be given worldwide marketing support by Microsoft.

CMS Wizard, which has been jointly developed with Danish firm Mondosoft, will retail for $1,999.99 and is licensed on a per server basis. Revenue will be split between the two firms.

Delayed 545,213 buy reported at 1.4 pence.