Mobilesoft acquires Secure e Solutions 17:19, Friday, 17 August 2007
Sydney - Friday - August 17: (RWE Australian Business News) - Mobilesoft Ltd (ASX:MSO) has entered an agreement under which it may wholly acquire Zanell Pty Ltd, an unlisted company trading as Secure e Solutions. Secure e Solutions provides electronic payment software products to Tier 2 Australian banks and its customers include Bendigo Bank, Bank of Queensland and Suncorp. Secure e Solutions has a range of mature electronic payment software products known as Bank*Link, Web*Link, Auto*Link, Secure*Link, Quick*Link and ERP*Link. The acquisition is viewed as strategically important for Mobilesoft because the intellectual property, technology and experience acquired will be utilised in offering end-to-end solutions with its Video on Demand and Electronic Rental Service offerings in the New Media markets. The company says these offerings will all require end-to-end electronic payment capability. The purchase price of $3.13m approximates to 4.1 times the unaudited earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) of Secure e Solutions for its fiscal year ended June 30 2007 and 3.7 times its forecast EBIT for fiscal year 2008. Mobilesoft today lodged an Appendix 3B for the issue of 10.43m shares, equating to the initial payment of 10pc of the purchase price. This imputes a value of 3c to each Mobilesoft share. Shares in Mobilesoft closed up 0.1c to 2.4c today.
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