With headquarters in the UK and offices throughout EMEA, Communisis is one of Europe's leading providers of customer communications for major brands.

Communisis has over 200 years of industry experience in marketing, transactional and regulatory multi-channel customer communications. Expanding and diversifying our skills in response to rapid industry changes, we've built a service platform of unique strength and depth to become a tier one player in our sector, employing around 2,300 experts throughout Europe and beyond.

We offer over 100 individual customer communication disciplines from creative services, web production and social network marketing to data intelligence, transactional digital printing and digital asset management. Our business is organised in line with the customer communication journey, which we divide into three stages:

1. Design
Where we develop communication strategy, audience insights, creative concepts and content marketing to captivate customers.

2. Produce
Multichannel manufacturing operations including volume digital printing and specialist web, mobile and social media production studios.

3. Deploy
Teams specialising in the efficient management and distribution of multi-channel customer communications through marketing technology and supply chain optimisation.

It's the broad scope of our business model, and the diverse range of skills we unite to realise it, that defines us as a company.

What makes us different?

What distinguishes Communisis is our ability to take a consultative approach to multichannel customer communication. We start at the objective, developing bespoke solutions in co-operation with our clients to solve the frontline commercial challenges they face. Solutions that aren't dictated by what we can do, but by what our clients are trying to achieve.

We make a conscious commitment to solve problems and maximise opportunities for our clients. That's why we're the trusted partner of some of the world's top brands. We're partner to companies with revenues of £1 million to £50+ million from a wide range of sectors, including financial services, FMCG, retail, utilities and telecommunications.

http://www.communisis.com/

A break-out possible -Simon T in IC. Rated on a huge 43 % earnings discount to the sector. Target 85p

Trading Update
RNS
RNS Number : 4414C
Communisis PLC
19 January 2015







19 January 2015



Communisis plc



("Communisis" or the "Group")



Trading in line with expectations



Leading provider of personalised customer communication services, Communisis plc (LSE: CMS), issues its trading update for the year ended 31 December 2014.



Trading for the full year was in line with the Board's expectations, representing a fifth consecutive year of sustained improvement.

Net debt at 31 December 2014 was approximately £36m, as anticipated, before the acquisition of Life Marketing Consultancy Limited ("Life") on 5 January 2015.



The integration of Life's shopper marketing capabilities is now underway in our Design segment together with the development of synergies with existing Group clients in our Deploy segment.

Communisis will announce its preliminary results on 5 March 2015.

ST of IC today - Communicating a profit surge in advance

Shares in marketing service provider Communisis


(CMS: 56p) are tantalisingly close to signalling a major share break-out and one that I flagged up in my analysis six weeks ago

full-year results on Thursday, 5 March.

good movement today AHEAD OF RESULTS

Preliminary Results
RNS
RNS Number : 5885G
Communisis PLC
05 March 2015







5 March 2015



Communisis plc



("Communisis" or the "Group")



Preliminary Results for the year ended 31 December 2014



- Strong growth in turnover, adjusted operating profit and cash generation -



- New contract award from AXA UK -



Leading provider of personalised customer communication services Communisis plc (LSE:CMS), reports preliminary results for the year ended 31 December 2014.



Financial highlights

§ Turnover 27% ahead at £343.0m (2013 £270.1m)

§ Overseas revenues increased by 36% to £66.5m (2013 £48.9m). Now over 19% of total turnover

§ Adjusted operating profit up 21% to £16.0m (2013 £13.3m)

§ Operating margin on sales (excluding pass through) maintained at 6.9% (2013 6.9%)

§ Adjusted earnings per share (fully diluted and excluding the after tax effects of exceptional items and amortisation of acquired intangibles) increased 10% to 4.62p (2013 4.19p)

§ Final dividend of 1.33p per share. Full year dividend up 11% to 2.0p per share (2013 1.80p)

§ Free cash inflow improved by £11.6m to £6.0m (2013 outflow £5.6m) principally due to tighter working capital management

§ Year-end net debt at £35.9m (2013 £25.7m). Increase attributable to investment during the year

§ A £21m non-cash provision for the impairment of goodwill that arose on acquisitions made in the early years of the last decade resulted in a loss after tax of £15.1m (2013 profit £4.9m). Basic loss per share was 7.67p (2013 earnings 2.65p)

§ 2014 triennial pension deficit valuation substantially reduced at £19.5m (2011 £38m deficit). Annual deficit reduction payments halved at an initial £1.5m (previously £3m)



Adjusted operating profit means profit from operations before exceptional items and the amortisation of acquired intangibles.

Operational highlights

Continued Growth

§ Integrated agency model developed and launched under new brand name PSONA

- Higher margin creative services expanded through five acquisitions

- Complementary services provide revenue synergy opportunities

- Now over 300 employees in the Design segment



§ Multi-year contractual relationships secured or extended

- Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) for new incoming customer communication services - ten year term

- AXA UK (AXA) for incoming and outgoing marketing and operational customer communication services - six year term. Awarded in February 2015

- Procter & Gamble Europe S.A. (P&G) for brand building services in Europe - extended for a further five year term

- Other consumer goods clients in the drinks, healthcare and technology sectors for brand deployment services - two to three year terms



§ Infrastructure and geographic reach expanded to support the ongoing growth in services, clients and revenues

- Sixteen new locations during 2014 with a further four added since the year-end

- Now operating from 51 locations (including 18 client sites) in 16 countries, delivering services into 73 countries

- 2200 employees with over 150 based overseas



Commenting on the results Communisis Chief Executive, Andy Blundell, said:



"Communisis has delivered another substantial improvement in adjusted operating profit and an average annual growth rate of 20% over a five year period.



2014 has been a successful year during which we have built and launched a new digital agency, continued to win important contracts for outsourced customer communication services and expanded rapidly overseas."

Company News

Communisis losses overshadow underlying progress

Thu, 05 March 2015

Price: 56.50

Chg: -4.50

Chg %: -7.38%

Date: 16:29



Despite the announcement of a major new contract and strong underlying progress, marketing communication services Communisis saw its shares decline on Thursday as it slipped into full year losses.
Despite revenues rising 27% to £343m, profits before tax of £6.27m in 2013 turned into losses of £13.26m in 2014 due to an exceptional goodwill impairment of £21m.

Overseas revenues grew 36% to £66.5m driven by its Deploy segment.

Showing confidence in the business, Communisis hoisted its dividend by 11% to 2p per share for the year.

Also on Thursday, the group revealed it secured an extended six-year contract with AXA, where it will provide creative, print, digital and postal distribution and document management services.

During the full-year, the company has entered a partnership with Lloyds Banking Group, providing the imaging and processing of incoming mail from customers during the next ten years.

Chief executive Andy Blundell said: "2014 has been a successful year during which we have built and launched a new digital agency, continued to win important contracts for outsourced customer communication services and expanded rapidly overseas."

N+1 Singer brokers remained positive with the outlook, saying the shares continued to trade at an "unjustified discount to it peers". The analysts added that Communisis is making "good progress in delivering its strategic objectives".

Shares fell 5.33% to 57.75p on Thursday at 14:37.

Trading Update
RNS
RNS Number : 3144S
Communisis PLC
07 July 2015

7 July 2015



Communisis plc



("Communisis" or the "Group")



Interim period end trading update for the half year ended 30 June 2015



Trading in line with expectations on a constant currency basis,

net debt as anticipated



EE contract extension



Leading provider of personalised customer communication services, Communisis plc (LSE: CMS), issues its trading update for the half year ended 30 June 2015.



The Group is pleased to report that the encouraging start to the year reported at the AGM has continued, with trading in the first half meeting the Board's expectations, on a constant currency basis, and net debt as anticipated.



Business development activity remains high, with a solid pipeline of opportunities. Communisis has extended its contract with EE for a further two years, embarked on pilot activity with new clients within the consumer goods sector, and has established its first offices in Eastern Europe.



Communisis will announce its Interim Results on Thursday 30 July 2015.

Interim results

Something going on here Richard Griffiths above 25% and 24 million shares bought yesterday , hope so .

Crux asset management bought 12 million shares on Wednesday over 5% .

RNS results , and starting to look good here , just won TV license deal up to 10 years and start of 3 year plan to create enhanced returns to shareholders .