Kale
on the growth path: Revenue up 38%
July 25, 2005 - Kale Consultants Limited (Kale), the leading
provider of software solutions and outsourced services to
the Airline & Travel industry, has recorded revenues of
Rs. 137.69 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2005 a s
compared to Rs. 99.98 million for the corresponding quarter
of the previous year, a growth of 38%.
The company recorded a PAT of Rs 4.97 million for this quarter
as compared to Rs. 1.59 million for the corresponding quarter
of the previous year, a substantial growth of 214%
The High Court of Bombay has approved the merger of Kale
e-travel Technologies Limited (formerly Cognosys) with Kale
Consultants Limited. With the court's approval, the formal
process of amalgamation is complete, effective 1st April 2005
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Commenting on the performance, Mr. Vipul Jain, CEO &
Managing Director said, “This financial year has started
on a very positive note for Kale. We have achieved significant
milestones in this quarter. We have signed a 5 year contract
to supply CSP™ in a hosted environment to a large Indian
carrier and have renewed our contract with Asiana Airlines.
”
Highlights for the Quarter ended
June 30, 2005
NFP Service:
APEX™ is the indu stry
standard proration solution for Neutral Fare Proration (NFP)
selected by AIA (ARC, IATA and ATPCO) as one of the two co-existing
solution offerings to the industry, other being CIPS from
ATPCO. APEX™ has been commissioned for usage by 2 of
the top-10 airlines, Northwest Airlines (4 th largest in the
world) and Continental Airlines (6th largest in the world),
since March 2005. Three other airlines have selected Kale
for NFP and are in the process of implementation.
Cargo Solutions:
Indian Airlines, one of the
largest regional airlines in Asia signed a five year contract
with the company for CSP™ - the Enterprise-Wide Cargo
Solution. This contract is for the complete suite of CSP™
solutions, provided on a hosted basis across 63 domestic and
international stations of the airline. To offer a complete
solution, Kale will also provide and maintain hardware at
10 Indian Airlines stations.
This is an important milestone for Kale as it marks the launch
of CSP™ Rel 2.0 on a hosted basis..
Asiana Airlines, one of the top 20 cargo airlines globally,
and a CSP™ user since December 2003, has reinstated
its faith in the solution by renewing its contract with Kale.
CSP™ provides Asiana a technology platform that enables
the airline to deliver superior customer service while improving
yields and reducing unit processing costs.
Managed Process Services (Kale
MPS™):
Revenues from the long term,
multi-year contracts from Kale MPS™ grew by 48% to Rs.
54.33 million over the corresponding quarter of the previous
year. The company has introduced a new service - the Cargo
Revenue Recovery and Protection Service and successfully commissioned
it for one of the largest Asian Carriers. This opens up another
avenue for Kale to deliver bottom line value to the airline
community.
Investor Relations
Kale Consultants Ltd is committed
to create long-term sustainable shareholder value through
successful implementation of its growth plans. The company's
investor relations mission is to maintain an ongoing awareness
of its performance among shareholders and financial community.
For additional information, please
contact:
Mr. Sumeet Nadkar
Chief Financial Officer
Kale Consultants Ltd.
Tel: 91-22-28259580
Email: Sumeet_Nadkar@kaleconsultants.com
Safe Harbor
Certain statements in this release concerning our future
growth prospects are forward-looking statements which involve
a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual
results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking
statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these
statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties
regarding fluctuations in earnings, our ability to manage
growth, intense competition in IT services including those
factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases
in India, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled
professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time
frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration,
our ability to manage our international operations, reduced
demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions
in telecommunication networks, our ability to successfully
complete and integrate potential acquisitions, liability for
damages on our service contracts, withdrawal of governmental
fiscal incentives, political instability, legal restrictions
on raising capital or acquiring companies outside India, and
unauthorized use of our intellectual property and general
economic conditions affecting our industry. The company does
not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that
may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the company.
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