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Half Yearly Report

30th Mar 2012 12:45

RNS Number : 4829A
Leed Resources PLC
30 March 2012
 



 

Leed Resources PLC

 

("Leed" or the "Company")

 

Half-yearly report for the six months ended 31 December 2011

 

Chairman's statement

As shareholders will be aware, Leed underwent a corporate reconstruction immediately prior to the period under review, following which a new equity fundraising of £2.435 million took place. The Board was substantially changed and the Company was reconstituted into an investing company.

Since then, as announced last September, Leed has made a significant investment in Manas Coal Limited Liability Company of £957,000, comprised of a cash investment of £750,000 and the issue of 166,666,667 new shares together with warrants to subscribe at 0.15p for up to 166,666,667 shares in Leed giving Leed a 17.5% stake in Manas. Manas now holds a licence for exploration for coal in the Eastern Kokkia region of the Kyrgyz Republic in an area which, based on information held by the Kyrgyz government, is thought to contain significant coal reserves. Fuller details were announced at the time and the transaction was also described in Leed's Report and Accounts for the period ended 30 June 2011.

Since then, Manas has carried out initial work on the ground to establish the extent and viability of the Eastern Kokkia deposit. A Kyrgyz firm of exploration consultants has been commissioned and has carried out initial prospecting and evaluation works for coal within the licensed area, including trench sampling and other associated work over part of the licensed area. They are in process of appointing new consultants to continue this work in 2012 when weather conditions permit and they have commissioned a well-established engineering consultancy firm to take matters forward; they plan to be able to produce a CPR on the project in 2012.

At the same time, Leed has continued to explore and review a range of possible investment opportunities in coal, oil and gas and other minerals.

In the meantime, the Company has changed its name to Leed Resources plc to reflect the wider area of activities in which it has or is likely to invest and we have welcomed Nicholas Lee to the Board to give us a broader range of corporate skills and experience to call upon. Nicholas is a corporate financier of over twenty years standing and is a director of a number of other AIM companies, including Viridas plc.

 

Peter Redmond

Chairman

 

30 March 2012

 

 

Unaudited statement of comprehensive incomefor the six months ended 31 December 2011

Six months ended

31 Dec 2011

Six months ended

31 Dec 2010

Year

 ended

30 Jun 2011

RESTATED

RESTATED

Note

£000

£000

£000

Continuing operations

Administrative expenses

(214)

(282)

(555)

Share based payment (expense)/credit

(10)

(123)

302

Operating loss

(224)

(405)

(253)

Write down of investment

-

(120,457)

(120,230)

Exchange translation losses

-

1

2

Finance income

1

-

-

Finance costs

-

(6)

(12)

Loss before taxation

(223)

(120,867)

(120,493)

Taxation

-

-

-

Loss for the period and total comprehensive loss, net of tax, attributable to equity owners

(223)

(120,867)

(120,493)

Loss per share (pence)

4

Basic and diluted

(0.01p)

(178.79p)

(99.60p)

 

 

 

Unaudited statement of changes in equityfor the six months ended 31 December 2011

Share

Share

Other

Retained

capital

premium

reserve

earnings

Total

£000

£000

£000

£000

£000

Total owners' equity at 30 June 2010 (RESTATED)

33,800

76,737

3,988

6,269

120,794

Transactions with owners:

- Share-based payments

-

-

123

-

123

Total transactions with owners

-

-

123

-

123

- Other comprehensive loss:

- Loss for the period

-

-

-

(120,867)

(120,867)

Total comprehensive loss for the period

-

-

-

(120,867)

(120,867)

Total owners' equity at 31 December 2010 (RESTATED)

33,800

76,737

4,111

(114,598)

50

Transactions with owners:

- Share capital issued by Company

2,435

-

-

-

2,435

- Share issue costs

-

(104)

-

-

(104)

- Share-based payments

-

-

(425)

-

(425)

Total transactions with owners

2,435

(104)

(425)

-

1,906

Comprehensive income:

- Profit for the period

-

-

-

374

374

Total comprehensive income for the period

-

-

-

374

374

Total owners' equity at 30 June 2011 (RESTATED)

36,235

76,633

3,686

(114,224)

2,330

Transactions with owners:

- Share capital issued by Company

167

-

-

-

167

- Issue of warrants

-

-

40

-

40

- Share-based payments

-

-

10

-

10

Total transactions with owners

167

-

50

-

217

Comprehensive loss:

- Loss for the period

-

-

-

(223)

(223)

Total comprehensive loss for the period

-

-

-

(223)

(223)

Total owners' equity at 31 December 2011

36,402

76,633

3,736

(114,447)

2,324

 

 

Statement of financial positionas at 31 December 2011

 

31 Dec 2011

31 Dec 2010

30 Jun

2011

RESTATED

RESTATED

Note

£000

£000

£000

Assets

Non‑current assets

Investments

5

1,026

-

-

1,026

-

-

Current assets

Trade and other receivables

50

23

473

Cash and cash equivalents

1,335

109

1,934

1,385

132

2,407

Liabilities

Current liabilities

Trade and other payables

87

82

77

87

82

77

Net current assets

1,298

50

2,330

Net assets

2,324

50

2,330

Owners' equity

Ordinary Share Capital

3

36,402

33,800

36,235

Share premium

76,633

76,737

76,633

Other reserve

3,736

4,111

3,686

Retained earnings

(114,447)

(114,598)

(114,224)

Total owners' equity

2,324

50

2,330

 

 

 

Unaudited statement of Cash Flowsfor the six months ended 31 December 2011

Six months ended

31 Dec 2011

Six months ended

31 Dec 2010

Year

 ended

30 Jun 2011

RESTATED

RESTATED

£000

£000

£000

Loss before taxation

(223)

(120,867)

(120,493)

Adjustments for:

Impairment of investment

-

120,620

120,620

Finance income

(1)

-

-

Finance expense

-

6

12

Share-based payments

10

123

(302)

Changes in working capital

Decrease/(increase) in trade and other receivables

423

(8)

(7)

Increase/(decrease) in payables

10

(55)

(82)

Net cash flows from operating activities

219

(181)

(252)

Cash flows from investing activities

Capital contribution to subsidiary

-

173

173

Purchase of investments

(819)

-

-

Interest received

1

-

-

Net cash used in investing activities

(818)

173

173

Cash flows from financing activities

Proceeds from issue of Ordinary Shares

-

-

1,985

Share issue costs

-

-

(104)

Interest and other financing costs paid

-

(6)

(12)

Net cash used in financing activities

-

(6)

1,869

Net decrease/ (increase) in cash and cash equivalents

(599)

(14)

1,790

Exchange differences in cash and cash equivalents

-

(41)

(26)

Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period

1,934

164

170

Cash and cash equivalents at end of period

1,335

109

1,934

 

 

Notes to the interim accounts

for the six months ended 31 December 2011

 

1. General information

Leed Resources PLC is a company domiciled in the United Kingdom. These unaudited condensed interim financial statements of the Company are for the six months ended 31 December 2011. They comprise only the Company's operations for the period whereas the interim financial statements for the 6 months to 31 December 2010 and the audited statutory accounts for the year ended 30 June 2011 were prepared on a consolidated basis. The Company disposed of its subsidiary during the prior year and therefore the comparative amounts now only include the operations of the Company and not the former consolidated figures. The investment in the subsidiary had been written off at the time of the disposal.

 

Details of the disposal of the subsidiary can be found in note 9 "Discontinued operations" of the Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 30 June 2011, available on the company's website, www.leedresourcesplc.com.

 

These unaudited condensed financial statements have been prepared in accordance with IAS 34 "Interim Financial Reporting" as adopted by the European Union and do not constitute statutory accounts as defined in Section 434 of the Companies Act 2006. This condensed set of financial statements has been prepared applying the accounting policies that were applied in the preparation of the Company's published consolidated financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2011, except where noted below.

 

Change in accounting policy

The Company's functional and presentational currency in the prior period was the US dollar but following the disposal of its US subsidiary the functional and presentational currency has been changed to Pound Sterling. As this represents a change in accounting policy the comparative periods have been restated in Pound Sterling. The exchange rates used for the restatement of the financial periods ended 30 June 2011, 31 December 2010 and 30 June 2011 were $1.60135, $1.55237 and $1.50113 respectively.

The comparative statement of financial position at the financial year ended 30 June 2011 has been extracted from the Company's statutory accounts which have been reported on by the Company's auditor and delivered to the Registrar of Companies. As those financial statements were prepared on a consolidated basis no income statement for the Company was included. The report of the auditors was unqualified and did not contain a statement under the Companies Act 2006 regarding matters which are required to be noted by exception.

 

The financial information for the period ended and as at 31 December 2010 was not prepared on a going concern basis and did not differentiate between continuing and discontinued operations as were disclosed in the annual accounts to 30 June 2011. In order to disclose relevant comparative information in respect of the six months to 31 December 2010 for the purposes of this interim statement the expenses attributable to continuing operations has been estimated by pro rating the expenses attributable to continuing operations as disclosed in the accounts for the full year to 30 June 2011.

 

2. Issued capital

 

A recap of issued capital follows:

31 Dec 2011

31 Dec 2010

30 June 2011

Issued and fully paid

£000

£000

£000

676,020,767 Ordinary Shares of 5 pence each

-

33,800

-

2,669,268,675 Ordinary shares of 0.1 pence each

2,669

-

2,502

67,602,008 Deferred shares of 49.9 pence each

33,733

-

33,733

36,402

33,800

36,235

On 22 June 2011 the shareholders approved a resolution to reorganise the issued share capital of the Company with the effect that for every ten existing ordinary shares of 5 pence each one new ordinary share of 0.1 pence each and one deferred share of 49.9 pence each were issued. The restricted rights attaching to the deferred shares are such that the deferred shares have no economic value.

Also on 22 June 2011, 2,435,000,000 new shares of 0.1 pence each were issued at par on conversion of loan notes totalling £2,435,000.

 

On 22 December 2011, 166,666,667 shares of 0.1p were issued at par as part consideration for the acquisition of a 17.5% interest in Manas Coal Limited, representing a total value of £166,667.

 

 

3. Loss per Ordinary Share

 

The loss per share has been calculated based on the following results and weighted average number of shares:

 

Loss per Ordinary Share

31 Dec 2011

31 Dec 2010

30 Jun 2011

Loss attributable to Ordinary Shareholders

(£223,000)

(£120,867,000)

(£120,493,000)

Weighted average shares outstanding

Weighted average number of shares at end of the period

2,530,379,786

67,602,076

120,971,939

Effect of share options in issue

-

-

-

Weighted average number of shares at end of the period for diluted loss per share

2,530,379,786

67,602,076

120,971,939

 

4. Fixed asset investments

 

In August 2011 the Company invested £69,000 in the ordinary shares of Viridas plc, an AIM quoted investment company.

In September 2011 the Company entered into an agreement to purchase 17.5% of the shares in Manas Coal Limited ("Manas") for approximately £957,000 of cash, shares and warrants. The Company initially advanced a loan of £750,000 to Manas, which on completion of the transaction in December 2011, was effectively exchanged, together with 166,666,667 ordinary shares at a price of 0.1p each and warrants to purchase a further 166,666,667 ordinary shares for 0.15p each, for equity representing 17.5% of the issued share capital of Manas.

31 Dec 2011

31 Dec 2010

30 June 2011

£000

£000

£000

Manas Coal Limited

957

-

-

Viridas plc

69

-

-

1,026

-

-

 

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