DATA Communications Management Corp. Announces Third Quarter 2024 Financial Results

THIRD QUARTER 2024 SUMMARY FINANCIAL RESULTS

• Total revenues were $108.7 million in the third quarter of 2024
• Gross profit as a percentage of revenues improved to 25.8% vs. 24.7% in Q3 2023
• SG&A expenses decreased to $22.4 million vs. $25.1 million in the prior year
• Adjusted EBITDA¹ increased +6.6% vs. the prior year to $12.6 million
• Adjusted EBITDA represented 11.6% of revenues, compared to 9.6% in Q3 2023

Brampton, Ontario – November 12, 2024 – DATA Communications Management Corp. (TSX: DCM; OTCQX: DCMDF) (“DCM” or the “Company”), a leading Canadian provider of print and digital solutions that help simplify complex marketing communications and workflow, today reported its third quarter 2024 financial results.

MANAGEMENT COMMENTARY

“We maintained our focus in the quarter on building a strong platform for profitable growth following last year’s acquisition of Moore Canada Corporation (“MCC”), while advancing our integration priorities including the planned consolidation of our plant network, integrating legacy MCC systems and completing our restructuring actions,” said Richard Kellam, President & CEO of DCM.

Kellam added, “I am pleased to report that we have now substantially completed the integration of MCC operations into DCM. We are on track to finalize the consolidation of our plant network from 14 to 10 main production facilities later this month and we are in the process of bringing online new state-of-the art capital equipment that will enhance our production capabilities and position us to drive additional operating efficiencies.”

“The progress of our post-acquisition integration and restructuring initiatives is reflected in the consistent improvement we are seeing in gross profit margin and SG&A expenses. We expect continued improvement in these areas in the fourth quarter and in 2025 marking further progress towards our goal of returning our gross margin to the +30% range and Adjusted EBITDA margins to more than 14%.”

¹ Adjusted EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA as a percentage of revenues, Adjusted net income (loss) and Adjusted net income (loss) as a percentage of revenues are non-IFRS Accounting Standards measures.  For a description of the composition of these and other non-IFRS Accounting Standards measures used in this press release, and a reconciliation to their most comparable IFRS Accounting Standards measure, where applicable, see the information under the heading “Non-IFRS Accounting Standards Measures”, the information set forth on Table 2 and Table 3 herein, and our most recent Management Discussion & Analysis filed on www.sedarplus.ca.

“Revenue in the third quarter was lower than expected due mainly to reduced spending by some of our large enterprise clients which we expect to recover in future quarters along with decisions we made to exit certain lower margin accounts. This contributed to a year-over-year revenue decline of 11.4% although, on a year-to-date basis, revenue is up 14.5% through the first nine months of 2024.”

“We remain confident about the platform we are building for profitable growth and winning in the marketplace as our Commercial team continues to make excellent progress strengthening our presence in key industry verticals, attracting new business and leveraging DCM’s growing suite of product and service offerings,” said Kellam

DCM has recently expanded its portfolio of tech-enabled products and solutions, with the launch of ASMBL in the third quarter of 2024 and the acquisition of Zavy Limited (“Zavy”) earlier this month. ASMBL is a fully AI-enabled digital asset management platform enabling customers to organize, store, manage, retrieve, and distribute their digital assets seamlessly. Zavy is a Software-as-a-Service marketing technology company that helps businesses optimize their social media effectiveness.

THIRD QUARTER 2023 EARNINGS CALL

The Company will host a conference call and webcast on Wednesday, November 13, 2024, at 9:00 a.m. Eastern time. Mr. Kellam and James Lorimer, CFO, will present the third quarter of 2024 results followed by a live Q&A.

DCM will be using Microsoft Teams to broadcast our earnings call, which will be accessible via the instructions below:

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All attendees must register for the webinar prior to the call. Please complete the phone field in the form at the above link (prior to the start of the event) if you wish to dial in.

The Company’s full results will be posted on its Investor Relations page and on www.sedarplus.ca. A video message from Mr. Kellam will also be posted on the Company’s website.

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About DATA Communications Management Corp.

DCM is a leading Canadian tech-enabled provider of print and digital solutions that help simplify complex marketing communications and operations workflow.  DCM serves over 2,500 clients including 70 of the 100 largest Canadian corporations and mange leading government agencies.  Our core strength lies in delivering individualized services to our clients that simplify their communications, including customized printing, highly personalized marketing communications, campaign management, digital signage, and digital asset management.  From omnichannel marketing campaigns to large-scale print and digital workflows, our goal is to make complex tasks surprisingly simple, allowing our clients to focus on what they do best.

Additional information relating to DATA Communications Management Corp. is available on www.datacm.com, and in the disclosure documents filed by DATA Communications Management Corp. on the System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (SEDAR) at www.sedar.com.

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Forward-looking statements

Certain statements in this press release constitute “forward-looking” statements that involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance, objectives or achievements of DCM, or industry results, to be materially different from any future results, performance, objectives or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.  When used in this press release, words such as “may”, “would”, “could”, “will”, “expect”, “anticipate”, “estimate”, “believe”, “intend”, “plan”, and other similar expressions are intended to identify forward looking statements.  These statements reflect DCM’s current views regarding future events and operating performance, are based on information currently available to DCM, and speak only as of the date of this press release. 

These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties, and assumptions.  They should not be read as guarantees of future performance or results and will not necessarily be accurate indications of whether or not such performance or results will be achieved.  Many factors could cause the actual results, performance, objectives, or achievements of DCM to be materially different from any future results, performance, objectives, or achievements that may be expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.  We caution readers of this press release not to place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements since a number of factors could cause actual future results, conditions, actions, or events to differ materially from the targets, expectations, estimates, or intentions expressed in these forward-looking statements.

The principal factors, assumptions and risks that DCM made or took into account in the preparation of these forward-looking statements and which could cause our actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements are described in further detail in our Management Discussion and Analysis for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024, and include but are not limited to the following:

• Our ability to successfully integrate the DCM and MCC businesses and realize anticipated synergies from the combination of those businesses, including revenue and profitability growth from an enhanced offering of products and services, larger customer base and cost reductions;
• The expected annualized synergies that the Company expects to derive from the MCC acquisition have been estimated by the Company based on its experience integrating previously acquired businesses, other facilities and completing previous restructuring initiatives, and includes estimated benefits expected to be derived from the acquisition, including those related to facility sales and consolidations, operational improvements, eliminating redundant positions, and purchasing synergies;
• Our expected total annualized synergies estimates are principally based upon the following material factors and assumptions: (a) given the significant overlap in the nature of the two businesses, DCM will be able to eliminate duplication of overhead expenses across the combined DCM and MCC businesses in its SG&A functions; (b) given significant overlap in the nature of DCM’s and MCC’s production processes and available combined excess capacity, DCM will be able to consolidate manufacturing plants; (c) further operational and SG&A costs savings will be achievable once the above-noted initiatives are completed; (d) the combined business will achieve more favourable purchasing terms by virtue of the fact it is approximately twice the size of each of DCM and MCC pre-acquisition, and therefore able to command lower pricing from vendors based on larger volumes, and its expected ability to better harmonize purchasing strategies to leverage more favourable purchasing terms than each company had individually for similar goods or services; and (e) the combined business will be able to generate certain revenue synergies from cross-selling each other’s broader, combined, suite of capabilities; and
• Such expected annualized cost savings have not been prepared in accordance with IFRS Accounting Standards, nor has a reconciliation to IFRS Accounting Standards been provided, and the Company evaluates its financial performance on the basis of these non-IFRS Accounting Standards measures.  Therefore, the Company does not consider their most comparable IFRS Accounting Standards measures when evaluating prospective acquisitions.

Additional factors are discussed elsewhere in this press release and under the headings “Liquidity and capital resources” and “Risks and Uncertainties” in DCM’s Management Discussion and Analysis and in DCM’s other publicly available disclosure documents, as filed by DCM on SEDAR+ (www.sedarplus.ca).  Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should assumptions underlying the forward-looking statements prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described in this press release as intended, planned, anticipated, believed, estimated or expected.  Unless required by applicable securities law, DCM does not intend and does not assume any obligation to update these forward-looking statements.

Non-ifrs accounting standards measures

NON-IFRS ACCOUNTING STANDARDS AND OTHER FINANCIAL MEASURES
This press release includes certain non-IFRS Accounting Standards measures, ratios, and other financial measures as supplementary information.  This supplementary information does not represent earnings measures recognized by IFRS Accounting Standards and does not have any standardized meanings prescribed by IFRS Accounting Standards.  Therefore, these non-IFRS Accounting Standards measures, ratios and other financial measures are unlikely to be comparable to similar measures presented by other issuers.  Investors are cautioned that this supplementary information should not be construed as alternatives to net income (loss) determined in accordance with IFRS Accounting Standards as an indicator of DCM’s performance.  Definitions of such supplementary information, together with a reconciliation of net income (loss) to such supplementary financial measures, can be found in Table 5 and Table 6 of our Management Discussion and Analysis for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and filed on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca.