| Company Contact: | Geoff Turner, Director and Group Officer | info@codaoctopusgroup.com |
Coda Octopus Group Inc.
Third Quarter Results
Lakeland, FL September 17th, 2012 - Coda Octopus Group, Inc. (OTC: CDOC.PK) announced last Friday its unaudited financial results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2012.
For the nine months ending July 31, 2012 the Group achieved revenues of $15.5m, up from $10.3m for the same period in the previous year, and Net Income of $3.5m up from $300k for the same period in the previous year. The Group recorded positive cash flow of $2.1m over the same period against $722k the previous year. The full Quarterly Report is available at www.otcmarkets.com (symbol - CDOC).
Annmarie Gayle, Group CEO said "Our third quarter results are a testament to the rigorous program of restructuring that the current management embarked upon in 2009. We have managed to contain Selling, General and Administrative expenses to the current level of $3.5m down from $3.8m last year while focussing on increasing revenues throughout the Group, which are up by fifty per cent. Whilst we expect quarterly revenues to be lumpy and therefore expect variation in our revenues in each quarter, we are confident of good sustainable year on year progress.
In the second quarter of this year we launched our TAP(TM) (Technology Access Program) rental offering around our patented Echoscope® product and we are already upgrading the rental pool to satisfy above plan demand. This together with our planned new product, (the Dimension(TM), an ROV application), which we intend to launch later this calendar year and our F170 positioning range gives us confidence that will see new revenue streams added to our business in 2013."
About Coda Octopus Group, Inc.
Originally founded in 1994 as Coda Technologies, the Coda Octopus Group is now headquartered in Lakeland, Florida. The Group consists of a Marine Products business in Florida and Edinburgh, Scotland, and engineering businesses in Utah and Weymouth, England. Each of the Group companies are technology innovators with a particularly high level of sonar expertise. The Group has facilities in Florida, Utah, the UK and Norway.
Alongside providing custom engineering and development for defense applications, and oil and gas, companies, one of the Group's key products is the Coda Echoscope® - the first real time 3D sub sea sonar. The Echoscope® is also at the heart of the Underwater Inspection System(TM) which is being adopted for homeland security, and other applications in ports around the world.
With this patented revolutionizing sub-sea visualization capability, and the existing systems integration skills within Colmek Systems Engineering, Inc and Martech Systems Engineering Ltd, the Coda Octopus Group believes they can become a world leading integrated sonar technology supplier.
For further information, please visit http://www.codaoctopusgroup.com or contact Coda Octopus at info@codaoctopusgroup.com.
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