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Directorate Change and Trading Update

6th Feb 2013 07:00

RNS Number : 1980X
Media Corporation PLC
06 February 2013
 



6 February 2013

 

Media Corporation Plc

(the "Group" or the "Company")

 

Directorate change and trading Update

 

Directorate Change

 

The Company announces that, following the placing into administration of Eyeconomy Limited (of which he was the Managing Director) Mark Butt has resigned from the board with immediate effect.

 

Sale of On The Box

 

The Company also announces that it has today sold its publishing asset, www.onthebox.com ('Onthebox') for £75,000. According to management accounts Onthebox had revenues of c.£8,000 in the period from 1 January 2012 to 30 November 2012. It is not considered a core asset and would require further investment for any growth, investment the directors consider is better used on the Company's Intabet platform. The proceeds of the sale will be used for general working capital.

 

Financial update

 

Finally, the board regrets to announce the discovery of a potential liability to HMRC in respect of previously unpaid National Insurance. The directors are in the process of working with HMRC to establish the full extent of the liability and an agreed payment programme. Based on the correspondence to date it is the directors' belief that the amount is manageable based on the Company's current resources. As soon as the liability position is clear, a further announcement will be made.

 

The amount outstanding covers the period prior to 2010 during which time former directors (and others), of the Company were paid by the Company as consultants to the Group where they should have in fact been treated as employees and the associated National Insurance paid by both the employer and employee to HMRC.

 

Phil Jackson, Chairman, commented: "With the Eyeconomy in administration, Mark Butt no longer had any real executive function within the Group and it was only logical that he step down from the board and we wish him well for the future.

 

I am very pleased to have realised some cash out of an underperforming asset like Onthebox and the funds will help us achieve our goal of launching the Intabet platform. To this end we are in discussions with a number of parties who have shown an interest to licence part of our technology which would enable us to start generating revenues from our technology and allow us to start to move forward despite the continued legacy issues from the previous management such as that with HMRC."

 

Further announcements will be made as appropriate.

 

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Media Corporation Plc

Phil Jackson - Chairman

 

Tel: +44 207 618 9000

 

Northland Capital Partners Limited

Luke Cairns / Lauren Kettle (Nominated Adviser)

 

 

Tel: + 44 207 796 8800

XCAP Securities

Jon Belliss (Joint Broker)

 

Tel: + 44 207 101 7070

Bishopsgate Communications

Tel: + 44 207 562 3350

Nick Rome

 

 

 

 

This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
 
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