In August 2007, ZOO acquired
the authoring business of Scope Seven, providing the group with a base near its
key customers in California and a broader service offering.

Actually Richard I resemble that remark having 'invested' in this outfit some years ago, think they have to get back to about 10 quid before I turn a profit. Oh well, the certificates should come in useful for summat :)

dec 2007
a european dvd game using zootech software

http://www.jorr-it.net/index.php?pageid=6

Toya .... glad i provide some amusement ..... light relief and sanguinity required in these markets

Hi Cynic - I've just got back! Will settle down with a nice-cup-of-tea and catch up with the day's events!

http://www.thestar.co.uk/business/Zoo-group-doubles-sales.3582351.jp

Friday, 18 Jan 2008

back in the zoo, the snake continues to slither along the ground, perhaps trying to burrow beneath it to hide in shame .... what on earth is any sane investor doing putting his money in this company??

http://moneyam.uk-wire.com/cgi-bin/articles/200803030702261427P.html

the snake analogy still applies

Is it time to "doo the zoo" cynic ??

Zoo expects to return to the black in the current financial year.

"We expect to make a profit in 2008/9," said finance director Helen Gilder. "By the end of the year we hope to be making a monthly profit."

just 1p profit and its 30p+

>>>

BUY Zoo Digital at 13.5p... too cheap to be true.


Zoo: Hollywoods unlikely hero

Due in part to the global downturn, piracy and new technology, Hollywood studios are waking up to a potential horror story. DVD revenues, although still providing the industry with a sizeable $18.1 billion in 2008, were 4.8 per cent down during the year, as sales and rentals both diminished. The diagnosis for this glitzy sector is simple: it must slash costs.

Coming to the rescue is small-cap software developer ZOO Digital, which has built up a portfolio of products that have enabled the Sheffield-headquartered company to snare business with four of the Big Six major Hollywood studios Warner Bros, Paramount, Sonys Columbia, Fox, Universal and Disney.

The companys product portfolio is divided fairly equally between technology and services. While services include creative design, post-production and other consultancy activities, Zoos software is the more exciting element, with sky-high revenues to boot.

Zoos Templated Authoring System helps to automate DVD and Blu-Ray disc authoring a process that is normally very labour intensive, traditionally involving pulling together the film, soundtrack, subtitles, menu, bonus features, etc and reduces the time spent on this from over a week to one day.

Another product, the Menu Regionalization Tool, enables DVD menu items to be automatically formatted for translation into various languages. And a third software offering, the Media Adaptation Tool, speeds up the process of redesigning printed materials such as posters and DVD covers for different languages. Tellingly, one Hollywood studio customer managed to eke out a 90 per cent reduction in the time spent on these processes by employing Zoos products, and managed to save $3 million in the first year after adopting Zoos Menu Regionalization product.

In 2007, Zoo stepped up its penetration into the Hollywood studios through the acquisition of Scope Seven, one of the Los Angeles players in the DVD-authoring industry, then began replacing Scopes traditional methods with its own technology.

In the year to March, with the take-up of the new technology accelerating, group turnover doubled to 6.6 million, buoyed in part by currency movements, with revenues for video authoring increasing 212 per cent and for media adaptation by 224 per cent. Prior year losses of 1.9 million were converted into a 200,000 profit before tax, finance costs and an exceptional write-off of intangibles.

The strong performance was attributable in part to the first full-year contribution of acquisitions but mostly to the increasing traction of Zoos technology in the market. As finance director Helen Gilder explains, customers are getting more comfortable with us and are taking more products and services from us, and we are expanding more within our existing clients.

Boss Stuart Green, CEO and 20 per cent shareholder, who has been at the company since ZOO merged with AIM-listed Kazoo3D back in 2001, adds, Were fairly well consolidated with one customer, which uses software and services for around 40 per cent of its DVD business, and others are still at an early stage. What were seeing is that these studios which are big, slow-moving companies and are divided into lots of different units may start with us in one unit, but when the benefits become apparent, other units start to use us.

Now Zoo, with its foot in the door of three other big Hollywood studio players and eyeing up Bollywood as a potential market, is primed for plenty more growth this year, as its proven ability to pare costs reels in new business. The first few months of the new financial year have been good, enthuses Green. We are ahead in terms of revenues and significantly ahead in terms of profits.

Although Zoo is small and has 3.5 million of convertible loan notes outstanding all held by existing shareholders including Green, Foresight VCTs and Herald Investments it has a disruptive technology in a sector where many tens of millions of dollars are spent every year and is punching above its weight with clients who are warming to its cost-cutting abilities. Its shares offer good medium-term growth potential.

Recommendation: Buy
Ticker: ZOO
Sector: Software & Computer Services
Listing: AIM
Mid-price: 13.5p
Market cap: 2.88m

at last u r on a thread aptly named for you hyleo, lol........dont think the gorillas will be too pleased though.

sorry hyleo, but this company is a total joke, and with a cap of <3m is for suckers only ..... it's the sort of stock where idiot punters get sucked in and then spat out in little gobs of waste-matter

as i said, perfect site for hyleo

Zero Interest here, recently ~2.5 years ago!

Now 10-11p I'm guessing they are still about to break into the Big Time,
meanwhile a "massive trade" in Buys, totaling c. £35k,
- has shifted the sp 11% DYOR. That shows a very poor liquidity IMHO.

The problem with all of these gismo-sellers (hardware or software) is that Big Co's don't like to be beholden to a small-fry who knows their sales, or Marketing strategy . . . "Walls have ears" etc. so it is very difficult for Tiny-Co to become "essential" like say the likes of Kleenex(tissues), or BIC(pens)
, Dell (computers), etc - and these tend to be sold via a wholesaler, so no risk of anyone knowing what Big Co is up to.
What they need is to find a Small Co with a brilliant idea (any takers?) which becomes a Must-have (like Harry Potter books), this means they can exploit their tech
and Small Co is very happy to have the "look n' feel" of a Big-Co interactive DVD (or whatever...) er, IMHO.


Not one for me.
Cynic, BTW Mkt cap is still £3m so still not one for you, either....

Just watching the rise here. :-))

Only 30,000 shares purchased this morning.

http://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=4356383