http://tangentplc.com/

Tangent Communications plc provides marketing platforms and services in the United Kingdom and internationally. It operates in two segments, Digital and Print. The Digital segment creates and delivers marketing strategies; and offers digital marketing solutions, including customer relationship management and digital communications for business-to-business, leisure, and luxury sectors. This segment provides its services under the Tangent Snowball brand. The Print segment offers design, print, and support services; and operates printed.com, an e-commerce sales channel for buying printed products comprising leaflets and flyers, brochures, business cards, presentation folders, postcards, greeting cards, posters, banners, calendars, stickers, and other documents for micro-businesses, small and medium enterprises, and consumers. The company also offers software platforms, including TaoShop that provides open source e-commerce for retailers; and TaoMAP, a sales and marketing automation software for enterprises. Tangent Communications plc is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.



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Tangent Communications (TNG:AIM) has started a major international growth push.
Its had a rerating since the beginning of September. With continued positive newsflow
should keep the counter trending higher. There is potential for good news from both the company's e-commerce and digital printing operations. The e-commerceactivities, as contained within the Tangent Snowball digital marketing agency, should get a boost from the plans to openan office in Mumbai this year or early next year in order to further push the firms proprietary software. There also could be news to roll out into India and the continent the digital printing services. Revenues can rise a further 30% without additional capital expenditure.

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Tangent Commuications has announced the acquisition of Goodprint, a multi-national online company, for consideration of £6.8m net of cash. The purchase will be partly funded by way of a £10m placing, in which Tangent directors are to subscribe for 30% of the shares. The shares were bought for 10p each. The remaining proceeds will be used to accelerate investment in online growth for the printed.com, goodprint.co.uk and smileprint brands.

Interim Results
RNS
RNS Number : 3930P
Tangent Communications PLC
24 October 2012



Tangent Communications plc ("Tangent" or the "Company")

Results for the half-year ended 31 August 2012



Highlights



· Revenues of £12m, up £1m (2011: £11m)

· Underlying Operating Profit of £0.98m, up £0.03m (2011: £0.95)

· Basic Earnings per Share of 0.41p, up 0.03p (2011: £0.38)

· Post period end: Tangent today announces the acquisition of Goodprint UK Limited and a £10 million placing to new and existing shareholders



Chief executive's review

Period Performance



Tangent increased performance in all key measures of revenue, profit before tax and earnings per share. In addition to steady performance across the business lines, printed.com has grown significantly. The past six months has seen a rapid increase in these revenues all derived online.



Gross margins (net of direct cost of sales and direct wages) grew to 57%, up from 52%. This trend is expected to continue as Tangent continues to provide higher quality products and services which derive higher margins. Additional expenditure will be seen in advertising as we move to online channels to generate revenues.



Online



printed.com has a high concentration on performance based advertising to drive customer acquisition. Advertising is expected to remain proportional to revenue growth and totalled £600,000 for the period. Lower proportions of wages or overheads to revenues are characteristic of the online business where operational gearing opportunities are gained by the website's ability to generate and process increasing revenues. Over 50% of transactions are now made via credit card payment or paypal ensuring cash is received well ahead of traditional revenues.



In the short term, the investment in online infrastructure and the build-up of customer numbers for printed.com will generate lower margins as we test and learn to better optimise our product range to meet customer demands. Progress will be measured by KPI's: Revenues, COCA (cost of customer acquisition) and Conversion Rates. These metrics will be published at the full year and then reported on thereafter.



Ravensworth and T/OD sales remained in line with previous periods, yet margins have improved as we have increased our pricing without significant impact on customer numbers or revenues.



Digital



Tangent Snowball continues to attract high calibre engagements with additional contracts picked up with Carlsberg, Richemont Group and TATA in the period. Our contract with Pearson in Australia has seen some reduction and we will monitor the progress of the office closely in the next six months. The investment into our two software products Connect (Enterprise Marketing Solution) and Oscar (e-commerce) has progressed well. We expect released versions to be adopted by clients in the second half of the year. New business canvassing is progressing well and we expect to announce further contracts that have been secured for launch in the second half of the year.


Outlook

The characteristics of the Online business are attractive. Following the successful build-up of our printed.com business, our strategy will drive new and convert existing revenues to this model. The acquisition of Goodprint, which is referred to above, will sit alongside the existing printed.com business to create a multi brand web division. Combined with the continued progress in other parts of the Group, the board remains confident in the Company's future prospects.





Full terms of the acquisition and placing are detailed in the announcement released separately today and in the circular which is available at the Company's website (http://tangentplc.com/reports)

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Interim Results
RNS
RNS Number : 3930P
Tangent Communications PLC
24 October 2012



Tangent Communications plc ("Tangent" or the "Company")

Results for the half-year ended 31 August 2012



Highlights



· Revenues of £12m, up £1m (2011: £11m)

· Underlying Operating Profit of £0.98m, up £0.03m (2011: £0.95)

· Basic Earnings per Share of 0.41p, up 0.03p (2011: £0.38)

· Post period end: Tangent today announces the acquisition of Goodprint UK Limited and a £10 million placing to new and existing shareholders



Chief executive's review

Period Performance



Tangent increased performance in all key measures of revenue, profit before tax and earnings per share. In addition to steady performance across the business lines, printed.com has grown significantly. The past six months has seen a rapid increase in these revenues all derived online.



Gross margins (net of direct cost of sales and direct wages) grew to 57%, up from 52%. This trend is expected to continue as Tangent continues to provide higher quality products and services which derive higher margins. Additional expenditure will be seen in advertising as we move to online channels to generate revenues.



Online



printed.com has a high concentration on performance based advertising to drive customer acquisition. Advertising is expected to remain proportional to revenue growth and totalled £600,000 for the period. Lower proportions of wages or overheads to revenues are characteristic of the online business where operational gearing opportunities are gained by the website's ability to generate and process increasing revenues. Over 50% of transactions are now made via credit card payment or paypal ensuring cash is received well ahead of traditional revenues.



In the short term, the investment in online infrastructure and the build-up of customer numbers for printed.com will generate lower margins as we test and learn to better optimise our product range to meet customer demands. Progress will be measured by KPI's: Revenues, COCA (cost of customer acquisition) and Conversion Rates. These metrics will be published at the full year and then reported on thereafter.



Ravensworth and T/OD sales remained in line with previous periods, yet margins have improved as we have increased our pricing without significant impact on customer numbers or revenues.



Digital



Tangent Snowball continues to attract high calibre engagements with additional contracts picked up with Carlsberg, Richemont Group and TATA in the period. Our contract with Pearson in Australia has seen some reduction and we will monitor the progress of the office closely in the next six months. The investment into our two software products Connect (Enterprise Marketing Solution) and Oscar (e-commerce) has progressed well. We expect released versions to be adopted by clients in the second half of the year. New business canvassing is progressing well and we expect to announce further contracts that have been secured for launch in the second half of the year.


Outlook

The characteristics of the Online business are attractive. Following the successful build-up of our printed.com business, our strategy will drive new and convert existing revenues to this model. The acquisition of Goodprint, which is referred to above, will sit alongside the existing printed.com business to create a multi brand web division. Combined with the continued progress in other parts of the Group, the board remains confident in the Company's future prospects.





Full terms of the acquisition and placing are detailed in the announcement released separately today and in the circular which is available at the Company's website (http://tangentplc.com/reports)

Stronger half year from Tangent Communications
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Tangent Communications increased performance in all key measures of revenue, profit before tax and earnings per share.

In addition to steady performance across the business lines, printed.com has grown significantly. The past six months has seen a rapid increase in these revenues all derived online.

Gross margins (net of direct cost of sales and direct wages) grew to 57%, up from 52%. This trend is expected to continue as Tangent continues to provide higher quality products and services which derive higher margins. Additional expenditure will be seen in advertising as we move to online channels to generate revenues.

The group reports Revenues of £12m, up £1m (2011: £11m) and Underlying Operating Profit of £0.98m, up £0.03m (2011: £0.95).

Tangent showed Basic Earnings per Share of 0.41p, up 0.03p (2011: £0.38)



At 8:16am: (LON:TNG) share price was +0.38p at 10.5p

A buy in this weeks shares mag - Earnings upgrades are likely to follow last weeks Goodprint deal. Goodprint will open up 17 new international markets including, Germany,France and the Netherlands. It has said digital print sales could rise 30% without additional expenditure.

Tangent Communications: Canaccord raises target price from 10p to 12.75p, buy recommendation kept.

Tipped as a small cap for 2013 in the shares mag.

Sold these on the drop and repurchased.

House broker Canaccord Genuity is forecasting a 27% sales advance next year to Feb 2014 to £31.3 million from an expected £24.5 million turnout this year. Earnings per share are expected to advance 11.7% from 0.6p to 0.67p, although these figures are likely to be upgraded as the continental European and Indian growth opportunities become clearer.

UP 7.5%

Moving up well today

Pre close trading update
RNS
RNS Number : 0765Z
Tangent Communications PLC
04 March 2013

Tangent Communications PLC ("Tangent" or the "Company)



Pre close trading update

Underlying operating profit in line with expectations for the year to 28 February 2013



Online

Revenues grew at printed.com by 99 per cent. on the prior year to £3.95m. This together with the acquisition of Goodprint UK Ltd ("Goodprint") in November 2012 marks a significant transformation of Tangent into an online retailer.



The Online business uses key performance measures to monitor its business performance. These measure revenues, number of new customers, customers spend and how much it costs to acquire and retain customers.



For the 3 month period since the acquisition of Goodprint, performance from the printed.com, goodprint and smileprint websites was as follows:



· revenues increased to £2.2m (prior year comparative £1.7m);

· the number of new customers acquired was 20,387 representing an increase of 20 per cent. on the prior year period;

· average order values have increased to £50 (prior year £48);

· the cost of acquiring and retaining customers was running at 26 per cent. of sales; and

· European sales increased to £0.4m as benefits from website optimisation start to take effect



Tangent is focused on widening its product range and international expansion. printed.com's Online Editor tool is expected to be live in Quarter 2 of the financial year enabling customers to design their own products. This will act as the catalyst for further product launches and provide a competitive edge.



Other parts of the business remain satisfactory. As previously announced, the contraction of Tangent Snowball's contract with Pearson in Australia has impacted the second half of the financial year and will continue to do so until its completion later in 2013. The newly won PepsiCo business is expected to contribute in 2013/14 and new business initiatives in the Impulse market are encouraging.



Ravensworth's revenues continue to represent a diminishing proportion of group revenues creating spare capacity which is being used to satisfy the increasing demand generated from Tangent's websites.



Tangent's underlying operating profit remains in line with expectations for the year to 28 February 2013.

RNS
RNS Number : 6351Z
Tangent Communications PLC
11 March 2013



Tangent Communications PLC



PRINTED.COM PARTNERS WITH AVIOS AND BRITISH AIRWAYS EXECUTIVE CLUB TO OFFER AVIOS THROUGH ITS REWARD PROGRAMME



Tangent Communications PLC ("Tangent") is pleased to announce that its online retail website, printed.com, is partnering with Avios and the British Airways Executive Club, to offer customers the option to convert their existing printed.com points into Avios through the printed.com Reward Programme. The partnership puts printed.com in the company of other prestigious British Airways Executive Club partners such as Tesco, Shell and American Express.

printed.com customers earn points on every pound they spend on the printed.com website. Based on their continued spend they can move up the printed.com Reward Programme through three different tiers; Bronze, Silver and Pink.

Andrea Burchett, Director, Partnerships, Marketing & Insight at Avios, comments: "This new Avios partnership with printed.com gives British Airways Executive Club members a great way of collecting Avios through their print spend to use to book exciting travel rewards."

Nicholas Green, head of Tangent's online business, commented: "The printed.com Reward Programme has been a huge success since we launched it last year, and the uptake of the offers available continues to increase. Soon, customers ordering print will also be able to book flights to Paris, Peru or anywhere else in the world!"



Watching this one.

In Shares mag this week, Get ready to go off at a tangent.

Marketing group Tangent is a prime re-rating candidate ahead of a sales recovery at www.printed.com, a provider of business cards, leaflets, brochures and other printed promotional material. The portal's potential has been obscured by problems at the £18 million cap's e-commerce business Tangent Snowball, where cost overruns have necessitated a restructuring. Last weeks finals 20 May should reassure that Snowball's issues have now been addressed as they met expectations.

Shares mag seem to think this marketing group remain a prime re-rating candidate ahead of sales recovery.

Tangent Communications - First half trading update

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WATCH: Tangent Communications (TNG) - Interim results to 31 August 2013

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Up just under 11% today ?