17 May 2023

Aurrigo International plc

Full year results for year ended 31 December 2022

Good progress since IPO - foundations laid for future growth

Aurrigo International plc (AIM: AURR, the "Company" or "Aurrigo"), a leading international provider of transport technology solutions, reports its full year results for the year ended 31 December 2022.

Highlights

·   Autonomous and Aviation division signed multi-year partnering agreement with Changi Airport Group (Singapore) Pte Ltd ('CAG') for continued joint development of Auto-Dolly, Auto-DollyTug and Auto-Sim

·      Automotive division also saw good activity levels, particularly amongst new potential customers

·      Headcount increased at all levels, expanding the team from 50 at IPO to 78 as at end April 2023

·      Established full-time teams in North America and Singapore offices

·      Continued investment in R&D, with the development of the Auto-Dolly MK3 and Auto-DollyTug MK3

·      Continued IP generation with patents granted

·      Revenues of £5.3m, with Adjusted EBITDA loss of £0.9m

·      Cash of £5.4m at period end, strong cost controls in place

Outlook

·    Momentum of 2022 continuing into 2023, with industry partnerships and grant-funded projects signed in Autonomous and Aviation and good customer traction across Automotive

·   Investment in sales and marketing, alongside the CAG partnership, resulting in encouraging potential customer engagement globally

·    Rapid recovery of global aviation to almost pre-pandemic levels, with demand for better efficiencies and solutions for staff shortages, underpins Aurrigo's key growth drivers

·      In a strong position to continue to deliver on the opportunities presented at IPO, particularly in Aviation

David Keene, CEO of Aurrigo, commented:

"We delivered an exciting year of progress in 2022 with the IPO, fundraising and partnership agreement with Changi Airport Group laying the foundations for our future growth. Since joining AIM, we have scaled our team, developed new vehicles and are now rapidly building a leadership position in autonomous aviation solutions."

"The momentum of 2022 has continued into 2023. We are now demonstrating and proving our autonomous aviation products on the ground which we believe will translate into new long-term partnerships."

"With the rapid recovery of the global aviation industry driving the need for efficiencies and automation, we are well positioned to continue to deliver the growth outlined at IPO."

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About Aurrigo

Aurrigo is a leading international provider of transport technology solutions. Listed on the London Stock Exchange's AIM Market (AIM: AURR) and headquartered in Coventry, UK, it designs, engineers, manufactures and supplies OEM products and autonomous vehicles to the automotive and transport industries. It is highly regarded as a specialist in autonomous and semi-autonomous technology solutions for the aviation, ground handling and cargo industries.

Aurrigo has three divisions, Automotive Technology, Autonomous Technology and Aviation Technology. For more information, see www.aurrigo.com

CHAIR'S STATEMENT

I am delighted and privileged to present Aurrigo International plc's maiden full year results as a public company following our successful IPO on AIM in September 2022. It is also my first as Chair, since joining Aurrigo as an adviser in 2021.

Our IPO has already begun to deliver a number of strategic benefits to the Company, supporting our investment in product development and expanding our team to pursue new market opportunities. We begin life as a public company in a position of financial strength - delivering revenues in line with expectations of £5.3m, with a robust balance sheet and a solid cash position. As a quoted company, we operate with a high level of integrity, transparency and strong governance that we know our investors, customers, partners and colleagues value.

Key achievements

The biggest achievement of the year was our successful IPO and fundraise in what were very challenging market conditions - a real testament to the great technology, sound business and talented team we have at Aurrigo, combined with a passion to succeed from the senior leadership team. It gives us a solid platform for growth and the whole team are proud to now be delivering on what we set out at IPO.

With the funding in place, Aurrigo is in a great position to deliver on our planned projects and opportunities, particularly in the aviation space, introducing autonomous solutions which can improve efficiencies, staffing shortages and sustainability for airport operations globally.

Building on this, in October 2022, we announced an agreement with Changi Airport Group (Singapore) Pte Ltd (CAG), for the next phase of development of the Auto-Dolly, and post period end, in February 2023, we signed a formal partnership with CAG for the joint development and testing of our autonomous vehicles and our airport simulation software. This is a great platform from which to engage not only CAG, but other airports and airlines and we look forward to further opportunities arising from this.

Financial

Following our fundraise, Aurrigo is well capitalised for its current needs, with a cash balance of £5.4m at period end and delivering £5.3m of revenues, with an Adjusted EBITDA loss of £0.9m. We continue to efficiently manage costs whilst also exploring non-dilutive funding for some projects, particularly grant funding.

Our people

2022 was a year for ensuring solid foundations for future growth at Aurrigo, with our culture, values purpose and people a key focus.

Since IPO, Aurrigo has been able to grow its dedicated and experienced team, expanding its personnel from 50 at IPO to 78 as at the end of April 2023, with the aim and need of reaching around 100 staff by the end of 2023. We have particularly expanded our sales, marketing and engineering capabilities, together with senior positions, including hiring an experienced HR Director. The journey ahead will be to continue to embed our values into business as usual.

Leadership

Our established senior leadership team have extensive experience across automotive engineering and manufacturing, as well as the robotic and autonomous industries. Alongside their technical capability is a proven ability to grow the Company, successfully developing new products and entering new geographies.

Since IPO, we have established a new Board of Directors, which involves experienced industry executives Penny Coates, Joseph Elliott, Lewis Girdwood and myself as non-executive Directors, alongside the executive team. We aim to further enhance the profile and credibility of the Company's business and services, given our respective extensive experience across the aviation and automotive sectors.

Corporate Governance

The Board is fully committed to its obligation individually and collectively to act in good faith to seek to promote the success of the company for the benefit of its shareholders as a whole and the interests of other stakeholders. Further details of our approach are set out in our annual report.

Outlook

Aurrigo begins 2023 with excellent momentum and a clear strategy for growth, building on the revenue growth and key partnerships it is seeing following IPO.

We remain on-track to deliver the key phases of growth outlined at IPO. Our initial development agreement with CAG has progressed well, with the vehicles delivered and now testing on the ground, on-schedule. The formal post-period end partnership with CAG now takes us to the next stage, progressing from prototype testing and also showcasing our capabilities to other airport groups and airlines.

The rapid recovery of the aviation sector to almost pre-pandemic levels during 2022 continues to reinforce industry demand for efficiencies, decarbonisation and solutions to staff shortages. This continues to underpin Aurrigo's growth drivers in aviation and our pipeline of opportunities.

Lastly, I would like to thank our staff for their dedication and support as we took the step of listing the business on AIM.  Thank you to our founders, David and Graham Keene for having the vision on which the business was built and now celebrates 30 years of success. Thanks also to our investors and customers who share in that vision.

Andrew Cornish

Non-Executive Chair

17 May 2023

CEO REPORT

2022 was a transformational year for Aurrigo. With our successful IPO on AIM in September 2022, we were able to raise the funds needed to invest in our innovative technology, develop our market position and grow our dedicated team. We delivered a strong operational and financial performance for the year, in line with market expectations and are proud to be achieving what we set out at the time of the IPO; increasing our headcount, building our Company profile and realising the growth potential of the autonomous aviation division.

Overview

Aurrigo has a strong heritage of automotive expertise, alongside valuable design capabilities.  It has supplied leading vehicle manufacturers and Tier 1 suppliers for 30 years, including Aston Martin, Bentley, Jaguar, Land Rover, McLaren and Rolls Royce. Our consistent delivery of high-quality products has built long-term customer relationships.  

We have created award winning, industry leading autonomous vehicles by investing in our proprietary products and software. Aurrigo has developed and owns all IP relating to our autonomous vehicle technology and we continue to invest in the research and development of products and software to maintain a market leading position. 

Aviation is a key growth area for Aurrigo's autonomous vehicle technology, with long term structural drivers. The global airline industry is seeking to improve its processes, tackle workforce shortages and reduce the environmental impact of operations, and these trends will increase demand for smart and sustainable solutions, offering significant future growth opportunities.  This, coupled with our proprietary airport planning software tool and autonomous vehicle fleet management system, gives Aurrigo a significant competitive advantage.  

Customers and partners

As well as supplying leading vehicle manufacturers and Tier 1 suppliers, we have developed autonomous vehicles for the aviation industry and engaged with British Airways, Changi Airport Group, Gerald R. Ford International Airport (USA) and International Airlines Group.  In addition, Aurrigo has partnerships with academic institutions including the University of Warwick, University of Coventry, Aston University, University of Galgotias and the University of Ottawa to further develop and validate its technology.  

In October 2022, we signed an agreement with Changi Airport Group for the next phase of development of the Auto-Dolly, our innovative baggage transportation solution for airports. This involved trialling the Auto-Dolly on the ground at Changi Airport.

Post period-end, in February 2023, we signed a formal partnership with Changi Airport Group for the continued joint development and testing of our autonomous vehicles, Auto-Dolly and Auto-DollyTug and our airport simulation software platform, Auto-Sim. The multi-year partnership agreement with Changi Airport Group provides an opportunity for further development of our autonomous solutions at the airport and, in addition, the ability to showcase the technology to other visiting global airport groups and stakeholders. Potential customers have responded well to seeing the vehicles in action and the demonstration of their full range of capabilities and potential will continue to be key, particularly as we trial the next generation of vehicles such as the Auto-Dolly Tug MK3.

There has been significant positive engagement with other airport groups, both for Auto-Dolly and Auto-Sim, our airport design, development, simulation and modelling tool and we anticipate signing additional aviation customers over the next 12 months.

Industry position

Our Automotive division continues to maintain its leadership position in supplying key components and design to the automotive industry.

Our Autonomous and Aviation division is rapidly building its own leading position, particularly within the use of autonomous and electric vehicles within the aviation industry. This has involved participating in and speaking at key industry conferences and roundtables, engaging with sector stakeholders and policymakers as well as potential customers.

With global air traffic recovering towards pre-pandemic levels during 2022, and a full recovery expected during 2023 (IATA estimates), the drivers for our aviation offering continue to be fundamentally strong. There is a continuous industry focus on efficiencies, solutions for staff shortages and reducing the environmental impact of aviation through the use of electric vehicles.

Innovation

Our strong focus on innovation and R&D continues, with the next generation of Auto-Dolly and Auto-DollyTug nearing completion. These vehicles are being developed as a modular system with a particular focus on the requirement to deliver commercial scale products in the short to medium term. Following feedback from our partners, significant improvements have also been made with new features including automated Unit Load Device (ULD) loading and unloading, towing additional ULD's on trailers, sideways movement and ride height control as well as enhanced battery capacity and faster charging times.  

Post period-end, the Company signed an Industry Innovation Collaboration Agreement with the University of Ottawa in Canada and also agreed to work closely with the University of Galgotias in India. We continue to develop opportunities with academia and industry partners for the development and demonstration of our autonomous technology solutions building on our national and international relationships within the aviation and autonomous sectors.

In February 2023, the Company won a £0.7 million Innovate UK grant as part of the Sunderland Advanced Mobility Shuttle ("SAMS") project with Sunderland City Council. The Company has won this funding to provide three Self-Driving zero-emission Auto-Shuttles, which will transport passengers in central Sunderland. The project will research, build, trial and evaluate the deployment of a highly automated, remotely supervised, zero-emission passenger mobility service within the city. Development work has now commenced, with the aim of demonstrating a sustainable commercial service during 2024.

Summary

The exciting progress seen during 2022 has continued into 2023, with industry partnerships and grant-funded projects signed in the Autonomous and Aviation division and good customer traction across Automotive, whilst also maintaining strong cost controls.

Our investment in sales and marketing, and the growth of our aviation industry profile, alongside our partnership with Changi Airport Group, is resulting in encouraging levels of new enquiries and potential customer engagement across the globe.

Our Company is in a strong position to continue to deliver the planned projects and opportunities presented at IPO, particularly in the aviation space. 2023 will be a year of demonstrating and proving our aviation products on the ground which will translate into long term partnerships and ultimately, product sales.

David Keene

Chief Executive Officer

17 May 2023

FINANCIAL REVIEW

The year ended 31 December 2022 was transformational for the Company, successfully achieving our IPO on AIM during the third quarter, in what proved to be very difficult market conditions. In addition, the establishment of our Singapore operation co-located alongside CAG, our lead aviation partner and the recruitment of a dedicated team there has helped to cement that relationship.

Current year review

The Autonomous and Aviation division continues to develop and showcase its autonomous technology and product offerings and consult with potential customers. Revenue in this division has increased by 41.5% following demonstration deployments of the Auto-Pod and Auto-Shuttle across three sites in the UK. The related R&D capitalised costs and deferred revenue of these projects have been charged/released to the statement of comprehensive income in the year.

The Automotive division was not directly affected by any supply chain issues. However, difficulties in within the automotive sector resulted in out of the norm shutdowns by some vehicle OEMs where they were not able to build vehicles and therefore volumes were down. As we supply mainly premium and special vehicle segments within the industry, we were partially protected from this, but Automotive revenues were down by 2.3% compared to 2021. This is expected to recover through 2023.

Gross profit margin for the year was fairly flat at 34.3% compared to 34.6% in 2021 resulting from increased inflationary pressures and product sales mix.

Overheads have significantly increased through the year, driven by the Company joining AIM. One-off costs related to this process charged to the statement of comprehensive income account amounted to £1,010k and the additional costs related to operating a public company have accrued through the final quarter of the year. Adjusted EBITDA was a loss of £939K after other operating income of £278K, of which £107K relates to R&D tax credits. This compares to an adjusted EBITDA profit of £354k where increased costs due to being a listed business were not incurred.

We have continued to take advantage of grant funding in order to develop and demonstrate our autonomous products, with £842k of cash receipts added to deferred revenue in the year.

Statement of financial position

With the IPO having raised gross proceeds of £8.0 million in total, at 31 December 2022, the Company's cash balance was £5.4m, an increase of 317% at end 2021. We are now well funded to continue to take advantage of the opportunities that we are currently seeing.

Post IPO, proceeds have been invested in innovation and R&D and increasing our headcount - particularly building our engineering and sales and marketing capabilities and establishing full time operations in both Singapore and Ottawa.  Inventory has also increased through the introduction of new product lines due to become core automotive sales from 2023 onwards. Development costs have continued to be capitalised, adding £1m to fixed assets net of amortisation. CBILS loans continue to be paid in accordance with the contracted schedule of payments and stand at £85k and are due to be fully paid in 2025.

Outlook

Increased automotive interest and continued progress with our lead aviation partner for our autonomous baggage handling vehicles positions Aurrigo well to build on its current year results.

Ian Grubb

Chief Financial Officer

17 May 2023

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

GROUP STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022

Profit and total comprehensive income for the year is all attributable to owners of the parent company. All (loss)/ profit after taxation arise from continuing operations.

* Adjusted EBITDA refers to earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, amortisation, impairment, share-based payment charges, and exceptional items.

GROUP STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION

AS AT 31 DECEMBER 2022

The financial statements were approved by the board of directors and authorised for issue on 17 May 2023.

GROUP STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022

GROUP STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022

NOTES TO THE GROUP FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2022

1. Basis of preparation

While the financial information in these results has been prepared using the recognition and measurement principles of UK adopted International Accounting Standards, this announcement does not contain sufficient information to comply with this. The principal accounting policies used in preparing the results have been applied in the comparatives for the year-ended 31 December 2021. 

The financial information set out above does not constitute the Group's statutory accounts for the years ended 31 December 2022 or 2021, but is derived from those accounts noting that the Group transitioned to UK Adopted International Accounting Standards as disclosed in the Admission Document upon the Group's admission to the AIM Market.  Statutory accounts for the year ended 31 December 2021 have been delivered to the Registrar of Companies and those for the year ended 31 December 2022 will be delivered following the Company's annual general meeting.

The auditors have reported on those accounts and their reports were qualified in respect of earlier years' accounts not being subject to audit.

2. Accounting Policies

Company Information

Aurrigo International Plc is a public company limited by shares incorporated in England and Wales. The registered office is Unit 33 Bilton Industrial Estate, Humber Avenue, Coventry, CV3 1JL. The company's principal activities and nature of its operations are disclosed in the directors' report.

The group consists of Aurrigo International Plc and all of its subsidiaries.

Going Concern

The Company has consolidated its trading position in the year, maintaining sales of £5.3m and gross profit of £1.8m. Net cash stands at £5.4m having successfully listed on AIM with net proceeds of £7.2m.

Management has prepared detailed financial projections for a period of at least 12 months from the date of signing the financial statements ("Review Period"). These projections are based on the Company's detailed annual business plan. Sensitivity analysis has been performed to model the impact of more adverse trends compared to those included in the financial projections in order to estimate the impact of severe but plausible downside risks.

The key sensitivity assumptions applied include:

-       Delay in revenues derived from R&D testing of Autonomous vehicles and related simulation.

-       Increased wage rate inflation.

-       Increased general inflation on input costs, including goods sold.

Mitigating actions available to the Company were applied and the Board challenged the assumptions used. After reviewing the forecasts the Board has formed the judgement at the time of approving the financial statements that there is a reasonable expectation that the Company has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for at least twelve months from the date of approval of these financial statements.

3. Revenue and Segmental Analysis

IFRS 8 'Operating Segments' requires operating segments to be identified on the basis of internal reports of the Group that are regularly reviewed by the Group's chief operating decision maker. The chief operating decision maker of the Group is considered to be the Board of Directors. The Group has considered the overriding core principles of IFRS 8 'Operating segments' as well as its internal reporting framework, management and operating structure. The conclusion is that the Group has two operating segments as follows:

·     Automotive components - the supply of electrical components for use in the automotive sector and across other industrial applications, as well as trim and design components.

·  Autonomous - the design, development and manufacture of autonomous vehicles and associated autonomous design and consultancy services.

Where costs cannot be meaningfully allocated to either primary operating segment, these are allocated as central costs and overheads.

The Group does not track its assets and liabilities by operating segment, and as such no information is provided to the chief operating decision maker in this respect. As such, no disclosure is provided of the segmental analysis of assets and liabilities.

The Group previously named the two sectors "Electrical components" and "Autonomous vehicles". The change in name is to clarify the wider basis of operations in each division and does not otherwise represent any reorganisation of operating segments.

The revenues are allocated to the following operating segments:

All revenue is recognised at a point in time when the single performance obligation is satisfied and the product is sold to the customer. This is usually at the point that the customer has signed for the delivery of the goods and the significant risks and rewards of ownership of the goods has transferred to the customer. There were no volume discounts in the current or prior year.

The Group presents the majority of its direct costs split on a reasonable basis for the operating segments identified, with any non-allocated income and costs presented within the central segment. The results are allocated to the following operating segments:

Revenue from customers who individually accounted for more than 10% of total Group revenue amounted to £4,051,430 (2021 - £3,418,073) from two customers, as follows:

Revenue from each of the above customers is recognised in the supply of automotive components segment.

Assets and liabilities related to contracts with customers:

The Group had no contract assets or contract liabilities at the year-end (2021 - £nil).

4. Other Operating Income

Government grants comprise the following:

·   Covid-19 job retention scheme grant totaling £nil (2021 - £6,756) which is credited to the income statement in the period in which the expenditure for which it is intended to contribute towards has been incurred;

·   other Coronavirus support of £nil (2021 - £13,362); and

·   other grant income of £171,173 (2021 - £3,262) in relation to Innovate UK, Australian and Canadian equivalents, and UK local government bodies.

The Group has recognised the following liabilities in relation to other grant income:

Included in the above is deferred grant income due within one year of £217,248 (2021 - £nil).

The release of deferred grant income is dependent on when amortisation of development costs begins but there are no other external contingencies in relation to recognising the grant income, except for the requirement to match the associated amortisation expense.

5. Dividends

Amounts recognised as distributions:

The directors do not propose payment of a final dividend for the current year.

6. Earnings Per Share

In the current year the Group incurred losses and as such has not presented any dilutive shares in accordance with IAS 33 'Earnings per share'. The diluted earnings per share is therefore the same as the basic earnings per share.

The Group does have a number of share options, which have been issued during the current year, that would dilute the earnings per share should the Group become profitable.

There were no share options outstanding at the end of the prior year.

Adjusted earnings per share

The Directors use adjusted earnings before exceptional costs share based payment expenses, depreciation and amortisation. This creates an alternative performance measure which the Directors believe reflects a fair estimate of ongoing profitability and performance. The calculated Adjusted Earnings for the current period of accounts is as follows:

As the adjusted earnings per share still shows the Group incurring losses during the current year, the dilutive shares have not been presented for the adjusted earnings per share calculation also. The diluted earnings per share is therefore the same as the basic earnings per share.

7. Share Capital

Various reorganisation steps were taken on 27 July 2022 in relation to the IPO as follows:

·      Issue of one Ordinary share with nominal value of £0.00001 per share at the market value of £19.45 per share.

·      Issue of 11,784 Ordinary shares from reserves to existing shareholders at a ratio of 1,743 new Ordinary shares for every 151,027 existing Ordinary shares held. The bonus shares issued are of the same class and same nominal value as the existing holdings.

·      Consolidation its Ordinary shares at a ratio of 1 new Ordinary share for every 200 existing Ordinary shares held.

·      Issue of 24,993,900 Ordinary shares from reserves to existing Ordinary shareholders at a ratio of 249,939 new Ordinary shares for every 61 existing Ordinary shares held. The bonus shares issued are of the same class and same nominal value as the existing holdings.

On 15 September 2022 the Company announced the admission to trading on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. The Company raised £8,166,667 (before expenses) by way of placing 16,666,667 Ordinary shares of £0.002 each.

Reserves of the Company represent the following:

Share capital - Shares in the Company held by Shareholders.

Share premium account - premium on the company's ordinary share capital

Retained earnings - Retained earnings represent cumulative net gains and losses recognised in the Statement of Comprehensive Income.

Share option reserve - the cumulative charge for share based payments, less amounts subsequently exercised or cancelled.

8. Annual Report and Notice of Annual General Meeting

The annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 2022 will be available on the Company's website and posted to shareholders in due course, together with the notice of the Annual General Meeting, which will be held on 14th June 2023 at the offices of Aurrigo International plc.