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COS Collagen Solutions Plc

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Collagen Solutions PLC Final Results (8615E)

09/07/2019 9:32am

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Collagen Solutions PLC

09 July 2019

9 July 2019

Collagen Solutions plc

("Collagen Solutions", the "Company" or the "Group")

Final Results

Notice of AGM

Collagen Solutions plc (AIM: COS), the developer and manufacturer of biomaterials and regenerative medicines for the enhancement and extension of human life, announces its final results for the year ended 31 March 2019.

Financial Highlights

   --    Group revenue and other income increased by 22% to GBP4.51 million (2018: GBP3.71 million)* 
   --    Revenue excluding other income grew 18% to GBP4.15 million (2018: GBP3.50 million) 

-- Adjusted LBITDA (before separately identifiable items): GBP1.22 million (2018: GBP1.71 million)*

   --    Cash balances at 31 March 2019: GBP1.68 million (2018: GBP5.02 million) 

*prior year reclassification - see note below

Operational Highlights during FY 2019

   --    Secured 29 customers and 16 new customer agreements 
   --    Grew our North American business by 72% and our development business globally by 76% 
   --    Our development business accounted for 33% of total revenue 
   --    Signed two blue chip development customers 
   --    Completed CE Mark submission for ChondroMimetic (R) 
   --    Signed four ChondroMimetic(R) licence and distribution agreements 
   --    Established our tissue business unit in New Zealand and four new tissue customers secured 

-- Consolidated our New Zealand collagen manufacturing into our plant in Glasgow, realising cGBP0.20 million in annualised cash savings

-- Transitioned fully our former Chinese JV and established two new channel partners, both of which have commenced first sales

Post Period End

-- Fundraise: On 5 June 2019 the Company completed a fundraise of GBP5.96m gross of costs made up of a strategic investment by Rosen's Diversified Inc of GBP4.18 million, a placing with existing and new investors of GBP1.25 million and an open offer totalling GBP0.53 million.

-- ChondroMimetic(R) update: during the last week of the first financial quarter, the Company's Notified Body informed the Company it has completed an initial review of the ChondroMimetic(R) CE mark application and submitted its first round of questions. The Company has reviewed the questions and is preparing a response in due course. While the Company believes the questions are addressable, with the goal to receive approval in the current financial year, the timing of any additional data that may be required and the response time or additional questions by the notified body is not certain.

-- David Evans announced his intention to resign as Chairman effective 9 July due to the progression of his muscle-wasting condition. He will be succeeded by Chris Brinsmead, an existing Non-executive director.

Annual General Meeting

The Company's AGM will be held at 3 Robroyston Oval, Nova Business Park, Glasgow, G33 1AP on 28 August 2019 at 11:00am.

*A disclosure restatement has been made to the 2018 prior year figures reducing other income by GBP0.12 million relating to R&D tax credits from the UK SME Scheme and includes these as a credit within taxation rather than other income. The current year equivalent amount is GBP0.15 million.

Jamal Rushdy, Chief Executive Officer of Collagen Solutions, commented: "On behalf of the Board and management team, we are pleased to report a successful year, delivering on the priorities we set out to accomplish. With a substantial increase in our contract product development business, which will lead to higher value contract manufacturing, we have demonstrated progress moving up the value chain. We also successfully consolidated our collagen operations into Scotland and enabled our New Zealand team to focus on a new, exciting tissue business opportunity. Furthermore, we made good progress preparing for the launch of ChondroMimetic(R) with new distributors and recent feedback from our notified body has given us a clearer path to approval, subject to further dialogue with the Notified Body and advisors as to scope and timing of next steps. Finally, we are pleased to welcome our newest strategic investor, Rosen's Diversified Inc, anchoring our successful GBP6m fundraise last month.

"Lastly I would like to thank David Evans for his trust, support and guidance over the last several years. On behalf of the Company we wish him well and will miss him greatly."

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CHAIRMAN'S STATEMENT

I am pleased to present Collagen Solutions' annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2019.

I noted last year that I anticipated the 2019 financial year would be a significant year of growth and change, following a difficult 2018 financial year. I am pleased to report that business grew by 18% in the year and our financial performance improved both versus the prior year and market expectations.

Post year end a successful fund raise and strategic investment completed on 5 June 2019 which I believe has put us in a strong position to continue to grow.

Overview

Our Board and management team have continued to make positive progress delivering 29 new customers and 16 new customer agreements. Growth has been in spite of the expiration of a historical supply agreement to a South Korean customer that is working down high inventory levels, and a temporary withdrawal of one customer's tissue product. The latter customer has just recently had its revised product approved by the FDA. The growth despite this temporary setback has enabled us to de-risk the overall business and reduce our reliance on our top 10 customers.

We have continued to put in place the clear organisational structures and initiatives to drive our strategy, which is to build a leading global regenerative biomaterials business based on a core supply, development and manufacturing platform, enhanced by development of our own novel products such as ChondroMimetic(R) across a range of clinical indications.

As a Board, we also understand that the success of the Company as a whole is only possible because of the dedication and hard work of our employees. This year we have asked more of them than ever before, and on behalf of the Board I would like to acknowledge the huge effort delivered by our colleagues.

We have also managed to increasingly attract new high calibre hires who all bring something new to the Company and will help us to build the solid platform required to build our value for the future.

Financially during the last quarter of the year the core business was profitable at EBITDA level; a significant milestone for us. We will continue to make losses and burn cash for a couple of years as we require continued investment in several of our growth initiatives including the commercialisation of ChondroMimetic(R) and to repay the Norgine Ventures debt. However, with this important inflection in our core business and the fund raise we can be more confident about the stability of our financial foundations.

Operationally we delivered the synergies from consolidating manufacturing from New Zealand into Glasgow. This allowed us to refocus the team in New Zealand on expanding our tissue offering and customer base, which they have executed well.

Strategy - Creating Value for the Future

The Company continues to make progress in our strategy to move up the value chain as evidenced by the transition of our business from raw materials supply towards development services leading to contract manufacturing, supporting customers as they launch new products based on our innovative biomaterials products and know-how.

We believe our core business is poised for accelerated growth as a number of our existing customers start to approach the launches of their products. Currently most of our customers, but half of our revenue, comes from products that are pre-launch: the 14% by number of our customers that are post launch with their products contribute almost the same in revenue as the 86% of our customers that are pre-launch of their own products.

If these pre-launch products are successfully developed, obtain the requisite regulatory approvals and are launched we will be well-positioned to transition these development projects to contract manufacturing revenue or commercial levels of supply. As such we believe that these contracted customers represent an attractive embedded growth driver as revenues from these contracts as they move to a supply phase are expected to be larger than in the development phase and also repeatable as they are required to fulfil commercial sales.

We continued to pursue our own proprietary product portfolio during the year. In ChondroMimetic(R), we see a near-term opportunity to establish and realise revenue. ChondroMimetic(R) is a collagen-based implant for the treatment of small osteochondral (cartilage and underlying bone) defects and has previously received CE-mark certification under its previous licensors for the treatment of small chondral and sub chondral lesions, with approximately 1,000 units previously supplied into European markets.

While we have not yet received the CE mark for which we submitted an application, we have received initial questions from our notified body and are preparing a response in due course and our plans remain subject to the external regulatory review process, the timing of which is outside our control.

Our other key projects are in wound healing and in bone graft substitutes. Both products have completed their in vitro pre-clinical testing and we are in early stage discussions with potential commercial partners regarding private label distribution and/or licensing for one of these products. These projects have been progressing positively but we plan to further advance the bone graft and wound products only via a commercial partnership.

Post Balance Sheet Fund Raise

I am pleased with the Strategic Investment by Rosen's Diversified Inc ("RDI") that we completed on 5 June 2019. This coupled with the Placing and Open Offer raised gross funds of GBP5.96million from RDI and new and existing shareholders. We expect the fund raise should improve our chance of reaching profitability with no need for another.

Rosen's Diversified Inc. are a multi-billion dollar, family owned business involved in food production, agrichemicals and distribution. RDI operate the 5th largest beef processing company in the US, the American Foods Group. The strategic investment in Collagen Solutions will provide accelerated access to one of their targeted growth sectors - animal tissue-related biomedical products. The Subscription with RDI is accompanied by a supply agreement with Scientific Life Solutions (a subsidiary of RDI) for the supply of tissue.

Funds will be used to further customer and our own proprietary product development, expand contract manufacturing activities and capabilities and for working capital including the repayment of the Norgine Ventures Bond Facility.

Grants

In January of 2019 we announced an award of a GBP1.54 million research and development grant across our qualifying projects in our product development pipeline. No grant claims have been made to date. Our ability to claim against this grant going forward will depend upon our R&D project prioritisation.

Our collaborations with various academic and industry partners continue and include our participation in two prestigious European Horizon 2020 consortiums to develop (i) a disease-modifying therapy for Parkinson's which could slow down the progression of the disease rather than offering symptomatic benefits, and (ii) cell-based tissue regeneration techniques.

Board and Management

During the year we delivered on the appointments mentioned in my report last year and Lou Ruggiero our Chief Business Officer and Tom Hyland our Chief Operating Officer both joined the Board on 3 September 2018.

On 5 June 2019, following the strategic investment made through RDI we welcomed Wade Rosen to the Board. Wade is part of the Rosen family and is a successful business leader, entrepreneur, and co-founder of two business-to-business technology companies. Wade currently serves as a Director of RDI, and as Executive Vice President at Scientific Life Solutions, a subsidiary of RDI amongst other directorships. Wade will bring a new dimension to the Board.

Focus for Financial Year 2020 and beyond

This financial year is about delivering the growth and creating the structures that we need to be the business we aim to be in three years' time. We remain ambitious and the agenda for the coming year reflects both the opportunities that we have identified and the associated challenges.

Our key targets for the current year are as follows;

-- Financial Performance: Further improvements on financial performance including solidifying core business profitability

-- ChondroMimetic(R): Completing ChondroMimetic(R) CE mark approval, subject to regulatory timings

-- Core Business Growth: Unlocking the embedded value in our existing customers, delivering on existing opportunities and building a longer-term revenue stream

-- Infrastructure: Building the infrastructure and capabilities that we will need to service the business we will be in three years' time

   --    Product Portfolio: Creating the right product portfolio for the business moving forward 

Outlook

Going into the current year with the fundraise under our belt I believe we are in a strong position; the challenge for us being about continued delivery and unlocking the embedded value in the business to return our shareholders' investments for them.

I noted last year that we were still not quite at the critical mass of revenue that would enable us to weather the storm of the vicissitudes of our customers, and that I thought we were at least two years away from achieving that. This is still the case however with both funding in place and line of sight to some of the contractual arrangements that will drive growth in the medium to long term I believe we are in a much improved position.

Finally, I have taken the decision to step-down as Chairman and from the Board as a result of the relentless progression of my muscle-wasting condition and an inevitable conclusion that I can no longer give 100% to the position and that is not in Shareholders' best interests. I will be succeeded by Chris Brinsmead, one of my fellow Non-executive directors who I am confident will, under his Chairmanship, take the Company to the next level of its development.

On behalf of the Board I would like to once again thank shareholders, staff and partners for their continued support.

David Evans

Non-executive Chairman

8 July 2019

CEO'S STATEMENT

Overview

I am pleased to report double-digit growth and a significant increase in product development revenue, as well as solid execution against our stated priorities for the year.

We made substantial progress towards our goal of creating value by moving up the value chain from a raw biomaterials supplier towards being a trusted full-service partner to our customers by developing and manufacturing innovative regenerative medicine products.

Our core business strengthened as new account acquisition continued to grow at record pace and development revenue substantially increased, representing significant embedded value for future OEM contract manufacturing while diversifying our customer base to mitigate the customer concentration risks we experienced last year.

We successfully executed on our initiatives for the year including our financial performance, product development programmes, commercial and operational initiatives, and improved investor communications.

Finally, we completed key new-hires this year and invested in our global team's development to strengthen the Company's talent base.

Performance

Revenue and other income for the year was GBP4.51 million, including GBP4.15 million in sales and GBP0.35 million in other income. This represents growth of 22% on prior year overall, with 18% sales growth, driven largely by increases in North America and product development revenue.

We added 16 new customer agreements during the year, consistent with the number of agreements in the prior year although at a higher average value. New customer agreements came from all our geographies with five in North America, five in EMEA, and six in Asia Pacific.

Our contract development and manufacturing category posted significant growth of 79% to GBP1.6 million, representing 39% of revenue overall made up of 33% contract product development revenue and 6% from other sources. We believe this significant amount of contract product development revenue is a positive indicator of future contract manufacturing business as these products move from development to launch phase over the next few years. Our supply business decreased by 2.7% to GBP2.53 million. This slight decline is mostly due to the expiration of a historical supply agreement to a South Korean customer that is working down high inventory levels and one other customer decline, which was offset by other supply business growth such that adjusted for these losses the supply business more than doubled. Included in this supply business are revenues from our newly established tissue business unit, which has diversified our offering from mostly Australian/New Zealand-sourced bovine pericardium to a wide range of additional tissue products from both porcine and bovine sources including U.S.-based suppliers.

Geographically, revenue from North America increased substantially to GBP2.63 million (72% growth) mostly driven by new contract product development revenue. Our EMEA region maintained at a similar level to last year at GBP0.59 million, while Asia Pacific declined by 33% to GBP0.93 million, entirely driven by the South Korean contract expiration. However, we remain in close contact with this customer and plan to support their growth in the future once their inventory adjusts to the level required for their business.

Growth Initiatives

In anticipation of receiving the CE mark for ChondroMimetic(R), we have established distribution partners in selected geographic areas. In the course of the financial year, we secured new distribution partners in Southeast Asia and Europe as well as hired a focused commercial leader with cartilage therapy expertise in Europe. Once we receive CE mark approval this team will be well poised to begin initial human surgical cases with ChondroMimetic(R). We are pleased to have just received notice that our Notified Body completed an initial review of the ChondroMimetic(R) CE mark application. Our team is diligently preparing responses and assessing, in collaboration with our notified body and advisors what, if any, additional information or data may be required as well as the related timing.

We also advanced our other proprietary product technologies, completing the in vitro testing for our bone graft substitute targeted for spinal indications as well as our wound healing products. We believe with this additional data available we are better able to market these technologies and are currently seeking partners to complete the necessary tests and regulatory filings to commercialise these products.

Our commercial organisation delivered several achievements relative to our goals last year. Our aim was to achieve growth across all territories via improved global sales operations processes and leadership, which we achieved net of one outlier related to the expiration of the aforementioned South Korean contract.

We also set out to secure new distribution partners in China, which we accomplished and have realised our first sales from these new partners during the financial year.

Finally, we set a goal to grow and diversify our tissue business, which we did with four new customers as well as new offerings of tissue products and sourcing of porcine as well as equine tissues.

Operations and Infrastructure

Our major operational initiative in FY 2019 was to restructure our New Zealand operations to consolidate duplicative collagen production operations into our Glasgow, Scotland plant and re-focus the tissue sourcing team in New Zealand into a global tissue business unit.

I am pleased to say we successfully completed this goal with no impact to customer orders and also significantly increased our employee engagement scores in New Zealand while broadening our tissue offering with additional products including porcine and equine sourcing, as well as establishing new U.S.-based supply. We also delivered on our cost synergy goals with over GBP200k of annualised savings realised.

Finally, our operations team along with our global R&D team were focused on delivering on a number of customer product development and contract manufacturing milestones, which we delivered upon during the course of the year.

Our people

We are pleased that Lou Ruggiero joined us as Chief Business Officer earlier in April 2018, bringing valuable sales experience and strong leadership to the commercial organisation.

As we grow, our organisation is changing rapidly and we remain committed to providing development opportunities for our employees and work with them on individual employee development plans to deliver the required training to allow them to progress within the business.

We value feedback from our employees and carry out periodic surveys and other feedback opportunities to measure employee engagement in a number of areas. We plan to continue to invest in our people so we can fulfill our mission through passionate delivery from our global team.

Conclusion

The management team is excited about our momentum from last year and the opportunities before us. We are focused on delivering continued growth and financial performance for the current fiscal year, and importantly building value over the next several years by successfully delivering on our customer projects and their product launches, growing our more diversified tissue business, capitalising on our geographic expansion, gaining new customers in our core business, and gaining regulatory approval in anticipation of first cases for ChondroMimetic(R).

Finally, it is with a feeling of tremendous gratitude that I wish David Evans well as he steps down as Chairman and thank him for his trust, support, guidance and commitment to me and the Company over the last several years.

Jamal Rushdy

Chief Executive Officer

8 July 2019

Consolidated statement of comprehensive income

for the year ended 31 March 2019

Restated (note 6)

 
                                  Before    Separately                               Before    Separately 
                              separately  identifiable                           separately  identifiable 
                            identifiable         items              Total      identifiable         items        Total 
                                   items         (note               2019             items         (note         2018 
                                                    4)                                                 4) 
                     Notes           GBP           GBP                GBP               GBP           GBP          GBP 
-------------------  -----  ------------  ------------  -----------------  ----------------  ------------  ----------- 
Revenue                        4,150,736             -          4,150,736         3,504,624             -    3,504,624 
Cost of sales                (1,111,399)             -        (1,111,399)       (1,039,401)             -  (1,039,401) 
-------------------  -----  ------------  ------------  -----------------  ----------------  ------------  ----------- 
Gross profit                   3,039,337             -          3,039,337         2,465,223             -    2,465,223 
Share-based 
 compensation                   (85,900)             -           (85,900)          (68,011)             -     (68,011) 
Administrative 
 expenses                    (3,499,544)       248,775        (3,250,769)       (3,412,092)      (81,402)  (3,493,494) 
Selling and 
 marketing 
 costs                       (1,024,868)             -        (1,024,868)         (897,308)      (41,046)    (938,354) 
Other income                     354,445             -            354,445           203,236             -      203,236 
-------------------  -----  ------------  ------------  -----------------  ----------------  ------------  ----------- 
Operating loss before 
 interest, tax, 
 depreciation 
 and amortisation            (1,216,530)       248,775          (967,755)       (1,708,952)     (122,448)  (1,831,400) 
Amortisation and 
 depreciation                  (562,355)             -          (562,355)         (526,946)             -    (526,946) 
Finance income                    15,254             -             15,254            18,244             -       18,244 
Finance expense                (332,213)             -          (332,213)         (402,814)             -    (402,814) 
-------------------  -----  ------------  ------------  -----------------  ----------------  ------------  ----------- 
Loss before 
 taxation                    (2,095,844)       248,775        (1,847,069)       (2,620,468)     (122,448)  (2,742,916) 
Taxation                 6       180,800             -            180,800           151,353             -      151,353 
-------------------  -----  ------------  ------------  -----------------  ----------------  ------------  ----------- 
Loss for the year            (1,915,044)       248,775        (1,666,269)       (2,469,115)     (122,448)  (2,591,563) 
-------------------  -----  ------------  ------------  -----------------  ----------------  ------------  ----------- 
Attributable to: 
Owners of the 
 parent                      (1,915,044)       248,775        (1,666,269)       (2,447,026)     (122,448)  (2,569,474) 
Non-controlling 
 interest                              -             -                  -          (22,089)             -     (22,089) 
-------------------  -----  ------------  ------------  -----------------  ----------------  ------------  ----------- 
                             (1,915,044)       248,775        (1,666,269)       (2,469,115)     (122,448)  (2,591,563) 
-------------------  -----  ------------  ------------  -----------------  ----------------  ------------  ----------- 
Currency 
 translation 
 difference                      129,488             -            129,488         (876,014)             -    (876,014) 
-------------------  -----  ------------  ------------  -----------------  ----------------  ------------  ----------- 
Other comprehensive 
 income / (loss)                 129,488             -            129,488         (876,014)             -    (876,014) 
--------------------------  ------------  ------------  -----------------  ----------------  ------------  ----------- 
Total comprehensive 
 loss for the year           (1,785,556)       248,775        (1.536,781)       (3,345,129)     (122,448)  (3,467,577) 
--------------------------  ------------  ------------  -----------------  ----------------  ------------  ----------- 
Attributable to: 
Owners of the 
 parent                      (1,785,556)       248,775        (1,536,781)     (3,319,761)       (122,448)  (3,442,209) 
Non-controlling 
 interest                              -             -                  -          (25,368)             -     (25,368) 
-------------------  -----  ------------  ------------  -----------------  ----------------  ------------  ----------- 
                             (1,785,556)       248,775        (1,536,781)       (3,345,129)     (122,448)  (3,467,577) 
-------------------  -----  ------------  ------------  -----------------  ----------------  ------------  ----------- 
Basic and diluted 
 loss per share          4                                        (0.51p)                                      (0.79p) 
-------------------  -----  ------------  ------------  -----------------  ----------------  ------------  ----------- 
 

Consolidated statement of financial position

as at 31 March 2019

 
                                                           2019         2018 
                                              Note          GBP          GBP 
--------------------------------------------  ----  -----------  ----------- 
ASSETS 
Non-current assets 
Intangible assets                                    14,944,687   14,332,892 
Property, plant and equipment                         1,101,959    1,228,530 
--------------------------------------------  ----  -----------  ----------- 
                                                     16,046,646   15,561,422 
--------------------------------------------  ----  -----------  ----------- 
Current assets 
Inventories                                             338,068      324,904 
Trade and other receivables                           1,137,758    1,085,783 
Cash and cash equivalents                             1,678,079    5,022,314 
--------------------------------------------  ----  -----------  ----------- 
                                                      3,153,905    6,433,001 
--------------------------------------------  ----  -----------  ----------- 
Total assets                                         19,200,551   21,994,423 
--------------------------------------------  ----  -----------  ----------- 
EQUITY AND LIABILITIES 
Equity attributable to equity holders of 
 the parent company 
Share capital                                    7    3,290,166    3,290,166 
Share premium                                        14,869,909   14,869,909 
Share-based payment reserve                             291,720      205,820 
Shares to be issued reserve                             106,581      106,581 
Merger reserve                                        4,531,798    4,531,798 
Translation reserve                                     805,387      675,899 
Retained deficit                                    (8,464,231)  (6,797,962) 
--------------------------------------------  ----  -----------  ----------- 
Total equity                                         15,431,330   16,882,211 
--------------------------------------------  ----  -----------  ----------- 
Non-current liabilities 
Deferred tax                                            162,094      192,509 
Provision for other liabilities and charges             121,744      151,753 
Borrowings                                            1,294,079    1,914,114 
--------------------------------------------  ----  -----------  ----------- 
                                                      1,577,917    2,258,376 
--------------------------------------------  ----  -----------  ----------- 
Current liabilities 
Trade and other payables                                938,556      802,394 
Provision for other liabilities and charges              38,538    1,041,520 
Borrowings                                            1,214,210    1,009,922 
--------------------------------------------  ----  -----------  ----------- 
                                                      2,191,304    2,853,836 
--------------------------------------------  ----  -----------  ----------- 
Total liabilities                                     3,769,221    5,112,212 
--------------------------------------------  ----  -----------  ----------- 
Total liabilities and equity                         19,200,551   21,994,423 
--------------------------------------------  ----  -----------  ----------- 
 

Consolidated statement of changes in equity

for the year ended 31 March 2019

 
 
                                              Share-based    Shares                                                           Non- 
                                                                 to 
                           Share       Share      payment        be     Merger  Translation     Retained               controlling        Total 
                                                             issued 
                         capital     premium      reserve   reserve    reserve      reserve      deficit        Total     interest       equity 
                             GBP         GBP          GBP       GBP        GBP          GBP          GBP          GBP          GBP          GBP 
  ------------------------------  ----------  -----------  --------  ---------  -----------  -----------  -----------  -----------  ----------- 
 At 1 April 
  2017                 3,287,991  14,851,092      137,809   131,934  4,531,798    1,539,676  (4,291,319)   20,188,981       97,157   20,286,138 
 Issue of 
  shares on 
  acquisition 
  of assets                2,175      23,178            -  (25,353)          -            -            -            -            -            - 
 Share issue 
  costs                        -     (4,361)            -         -          -            -            -      (4,361)            -      (4,361) 
 --------------------  ---------  ----------  -----------  --------  ---------  -----------  -----------  -----------  -----------  ----------- 
 Total transactions 
  with owners 
  in their 
  capacity 
  as owners                2,175      18,817            -  (25,353)          -            -            -      (4,361)            -      (4,361) 
 Share-based 
  compensation                 -           -       68,011         -          -            -            -       68,011            -       68,011 
 Non-controlling 
  interest 
  transfer 
  of shares 
  to Company                   -           -            -         -          -        8,958       62,831       71,789     (71,789)            - 
 --------------------  ---------  ----------  -----------  --------  ---------  -----------  -----------  -----------  -----------  ----------- 
 Loss for 
  the year                     -           -            -         -          -            -  (2,569,474)  (2,569,474)     (22,089)  (2,591,563) 
 Currency 
  translation 
  difference                   -           -            -         -          -    (872,735)            -    (872,735)      (3,279)    (876,014) 
 --------------------  ---------  ----------  -----------  --------  ---------  -----------  -----------  -----------  -----------  ----------- 
 Loss and 
 total comprehensive 
 loss for 
 the year                      -           -            -         -          -    (872,735)  (2,569,474)  (3,442,209)     (25,368)  (3,467,577) 
 --------------------  ---------  ----------  -----------  --------  ---------  -----------  -----------  -----------  -----------  ----------- 
 At 1 April 
  2018                 3,290,166  14,869,909      205,820   106,581  4,531,798      675,899  (6,797,962)   16,882,211            -   16,882,211 
 Share-based 
  compensation                 -           -       85,900         -          -            -            -       85,900            -       85,900 
 --------------------  ---------  ----------  -----------  --------  ---------  -----------  -----------  -----------  -----------  ----------- 
 Loss for 
  the year                     -           -            -         -          -            -  (1,666,269)  (1,666,269)            -  (1,666,269) 
 Currency 
  translation 
  difference                   -           -            -         -          -      129,488            -      129,488            -      129,488 
 --------------------  ---------  ----------  -----------  --------  ---------  -----------  -----------  -----------  -----------  ----------- 
 Loss and 
 total comprehensive 
 loss for 
 the year                      -           -            -         -          -      129,488  (1,666,269)  (1,536,781)            -  (1,536,781) 
 --------------------  ---------  ----------  -----------  --------  ---------  -----------  -----------  -----------  -----------  ----------- 
 At 31 March 
  2019                 3,290,166  14,869,909      291,720   106,581  4,531,798      805,387  (8,464,231)   15,431,330            -   15,431,330 
 --------------------  ---------  ----------  -----------  --------  ---------  -----------  -----------  -----------  -----------  ----------- 
 
 

Consolidated statement of cash flows

for the year ended 31 March 2019

Restated (note 6)

 
                                                               2019         2018 
                                                                GBP          GBP 
------------------------------------------------------  -----------  ----------- 
Cash flow from operating activities 
Loss before taxation                                    (1,847,069)  (2,742,916) 
Share-based compensation                                     85,900       68,011 
Depreciation                                                334,461      290,242 
Amortisation                                                227,894      236,704 
Increase/(decrease) in contingent consideration               4,744    (793,285) 
Finance expense                                             332,213      402,814 
Finance income                                             (15,254)     (18,244) 
(Gain)/loss on sale of property, plant and equipment       (67,591)        2,360 
Gain on sale of investment                                (214,965)            - 
Increase in inventories                                    (12,418)     (19,213) 
Decrease/(increase) in trade and other receivables           53,442    (218,592) 
Increase /(decrease) in trade and other payables            112,635    (168,747) 
(Decrease)/increase in provisions                         (202,736)      631,066 
------------------------------------------------------  -----------  ----------- 
Cash used in operations                                 (1,208,744)  (2,329,800) 
Interest paid                                             (273,327)    (272,606) 
Taxation received/(paid)                                     53,245     (42,837) 
------------------------------------------------------  -----------  ----------- 
Net cash used in operations                             (1,428,826)  (2,645,243) 
------------------------------------------------------  -----------  ----------- 
Investing activities 
Proceeds from the sale of investment                        214,965            - 
Proceeds from sale of property, plant and equipment          67,591            - 
Payments to acquire property, plant and equipment         (454,215)    (422,397) 
Payments to acquire licensed IP and patents, 
 and development costs                                    (740,045)    (796,420) 
Settlement of contingent and deferred consideration       (566,951)  (1,049,901) 
Interest received                                            15,254       18,244 
------------------------------------------------------  -----------  ----------- 
Net cash used in investing activities                   (1,463,401)  (2,250,474) 
------------------------------------------------------  -----------  ----------- 
Financing activities 
Net proceeds on issue of ordinary shares                          -      (4,361) 
Net proceeds from Bond issue                                      -    1,000,000 
Repayment of Bonds                                        (420,325)            - 
Repayment of related party loan                            (43,022)     (29,862) 
------------------------------------------------------  -----------  ----------- 
Net cash (used)/generated from financing activities       (463,347)      965,777 
------------------------------------------------------  -----------  ----------- 
Net (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents             (3,355,574)  (3,929,940) 
Effect of foreign exchange rate changes on the 
 balance of cash held in foreign currencies                  11,339     (25,896) 
------------------------------------------------------  -----------  ----------- 
Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents               (3,344,235)  (3,955,836) 
------------------------------------------------------  -----------  ----------- 
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of 
 the financial year                                       5,022,314    8,978,150 
------------------------------------------------------  -----------  ----------- 
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the financial 
 year                                                     1,678,079    5,022,314 
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NOTES TO THE AUDITED PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT

   1.          BASIS OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT 

The audited preliminary results for the year ended 31 March 2019 were approved by the Board of directors on 8 July 2019. The financial information in this preliminary announcement does not constitute full accounts within the meaning of section 434 (3) of the Companies Act 2006 but is derived from the accounts for the year ended 31 March 2019. The figures for the year are audited. The preliminary announcement is prepared on the same basis as set out in the statutory accounts for the year ended 31 March 2019. Those accounts upon which the auditors issued an unqualified opinion, also had no statement under section 498(2) or (3) of the Companies Act 2006.

While the financial information included in this preliminary announcement has been prepared in accordance with the recognition and measurement criteria of International Financial Reporting Standards, as adopted by the European Union (EU) (IFRS), this announcement does not in itself contain sufficient information to comply with IFRS.

The Company is a limited liability company incorporated and domiciled in England & Wales and whose shares are quoted on AIM, a market operated by The London Stock Exchange. The consolidated financial information of Collagen Solutions plc is presented in pounds sterling (GBP), which is also the functional currency of the Group.

The statutory accounts for the financial year ended 31 March 2019 will be delivered to the Registrar of Companies following the Company's Annual General Meeting.

   2.          GOING CONCERN 

As part of its going concern review the Board has followed the guidelines published by the Financial Reporting Council entitled "Guidance on the Going Concern Basis of Accounting and Reporting on Solvency and Liquidity Risks 2016". In determining the appropriate basis of preparing the financial statements, the Directors are required to consider whether the Company and Group can continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, being a period of not less than twelve months from the date of the approval of the financial statements. As at 31 March 2019 the Group had cash and cash equivalents of GBP1.68 million and net current assets of GBP0.96 million.

Management prepares detailed working capital forecasts which are reviewed by the Board on a regular basis. Cash flow forecasts and projections have been prepared through to 31 March 2022 and take into account sensitivities on revenues and costs. Having made relevant and appropriate enquiries, including consideration of the Company's and Group's current cash resources and the working capital forecasts, and in particular in view of the post balance sheet fund raise completed on 5 June 2019, the Directors have a reasonable expectation that the Company and Group will have adequate cash resources to continue to meet the requirements of the business for at least the next 12 months from the date of approval of the financial statements. Accordingly, the Board continues to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.

   3.          SEGMENTAL REPORTING 

The Group's Chief Operating Decision Maker, the Chief Executive Officer, is responsible for resource allocation and the assessment of performance. In the performance of this role, the Chief Executive Officer reviews the Group's activities, in aggregate. The Group has therefore determined that it has only one reportable segment under IFRS 8, Operating Segments, which is biomaterials.

   4.          LOSS PER SHARE 

The calculation of basic loss attributable to the equity holders of the parent is based on losses of GBP1,666,269 (2018: GBP2,569,474) and 324,516,552 (2018: 324,419,433) ordinary shares, being the weighted average number of shares in issue during the year.

The loss for the year and the weighted average number of ordinary shares for calculating the diluted loss per share for the year ended 31 March 2019 are identical to those for the basic loss per share. This is because the outstanding share options would have the effect of reducing the loss per ordinary share and would therefore not be dilutive under the terms of IAS 33.

   5.       SEPARATELY IDENTIFIABLE ITEMS 
 
                                                          2019       2018 
                                                           GBP        GBP 
 --------------------------------------------------  ---------  --------- 
 Included within administrative expenses: 
 
   Gain on sale of Jellagen Pty Limited investment     214,965          - 
 Release of contingent consideration provision(1)            -    738,466 
 Restructuring gains /(costs)(2)                        33,810  (819,868) 
 --------------------------------------------------  ---------  --------- 
 Comprising: 
 Gain on sale of assets previously written off          67,591          - 
 Additional costs - transfer of processes             (43,000)          - 
 Release of provision                                    9,219          - 
 Employee costs                                              -  (231,909) 
 Onerous lease costs of property                             -  (140,125) 
 Onerous lease dilapidations                                 -   (62,774) 
 Fixed asset write offs                                      -  (266,414) 
 General and administrative costs                            -  (118,646) 
 --------------------------------------------------  ---------  --------- 
                                                       248,775   (81,402) 
 --------------------------------------------------  ---------  --------- 
 

1. The release of the contingent consideration provision in the year ended 31 March 2018 relates to the reassessment of the earn-outs payable for the acquisitions of Collagen Solutions LLC and Collagen Solutions NZ Limited.

2. The restructuring costs during the year ended 31 March 2018 relate to the reorganisation of the New Zealand operations as announced in March 2018 and the planned transfer of most production processes to the Glasgow site and also the reorganisation of R&D operations including the relocation of the US facility from San Jose to Minnesota in late 2017. Additional costs and gains relating to the same restructuring in the year ended 31 March 2019 have been included in separately identifiable items.

 
                                                2019      2018 
                                                 GBP       GBP 
 ---------------------------------------------  ----  -------- 
 Included within selling and marketing costs: 
 Restructuring costs(1)                            -  (41,046) 
 ---------------------------------------------  ----  -------- 
 Comprising: 
 Employee costs                                    -  (41,046) 
 ---------------------------------------------  ----  -------- 
                                                   -  (41,046) 
 ---------------------------------------------  ----  -------- 
 

1. The restructuring costs during the year ended 31 March 2018 relate to the reorganisation of commercial operations including the relocation of the US facility from San Jose to Minnesota in late 2017.

   6.        PRIOR YEAR RESTATEMENT 

A disclosure restatement has been made to the 2018 prior year figures. This restatement reduces other income by GBP123,977 relating to R&D tax credits from the UK SME Scheme and includes these as a credit within Taxation. This restatement has the effect of reducing other income from GBP327,213 to GBP203,236 and increasing the tax credit in the same year from GBP27,376 to GBP151,353 for the year ended 31 March 2018. The loss before taxation increased from GBP2,618,939 to GBP2,742,916 as a result of this restatement, while the loss for the year was unchanged.

   7.        SHARE CAPITAL 
 
                                        2019       2019         2018       2018 
                                      Number        GBP       Number        GBP 
-------------------------------  -----------  ---------  -----------  --------- 
Issued and fully paid 
Issued ordinary shares of 1p     324,516,552  3,245,166  324,516,552  3,245,166 
Issued deferred shares of 9p         500,000     45,000      500,000     45,000 
-------------------------------  -----------  ---------  -----------  --------- 
Balance at the end of the year   325,016,552  3,290,166  325,016,552  3,290,166 
-------------------------------  -----------  ---------  -----------  --------- 
 

Ordinary shares

The total number of issued shares at 31 March 2019 was 324,516,522 (2018: 324,516,552). 119,166,429 ordinary shares were issued after the balance sheet date as part of a fund raise completed on 6(th) June.

Deferred shares

The total number of deferred shares at 31 March 2019 was 500,000 (2018: 500,000). The deferred shares do not confer any voting rights.

Options and warrants

At 31 March 2019 the Company had 28,963,632 (2018: 22,613,632) unissued ordinary shares of 1p each under the Company's share option and warrant schemes, details of which are as follows:

 
                                     Option                   Date 
                                      price             from which                    Expiry 
Grant date                   Number  (in p)            exercisable                      date 
29 March 2013             4,050,000   10.00          29 March 2013             28 March 2023 
24 November 2014          1,000,000    7.75         1 January 2017          23 November 2024 
1 April 2015                500,000    9.63           1 April 2018             31 March 2025 
15 December 2015          3,300,000    8.89       15 December 2018          14 December 2025 
14 July 2016              2,700,000    8.13           14 July 2016              13 July 2026 
15 February 2017            500,000    5.63        26 October 2019          14 February 2027 
7 March 2017                500,000    5.75           7 March 2020              6 March 2027 
31 March 2017             5,075,283    5.91          31 March 2017             30 March 2027 
12 July 2017              3,900,000    5.25           12 July 2020              11 July 2027 
23 January 2018             388,349    7.88        23 January 2018              30 July 2020 
5 March 2018                200,000    3.38       15 November 2017              4 March 2028 
20 March 2018               100,000    3.63          20 March 2018             19 March 2021 
5 April 2018                666,666    2.70         3 January 2019              4 April 2028 
5 April 2018                666,667    2.70         3 January 2020              4 April 2028 
5 April 2018                666,667    2.70         3 January 2021              4 April 2028 
3 May 2018                  666,666    3.65          16 April 2019                2 May 2028 
3 May 2018                  666,667    3.65          16 April 2020                2 May 2028 
3 May 2018                  666,667    3.65          16 April 2021                2 May 2028 
                                                                                18 September 
19 September 2018         1,500,000    3.70      19 September 2021                      2028 
                                                                                18 September 
19 September 2018            50,000    3.70      19 September 2018                      2028 
8 January 2019              200,000    3.15         8 January 2019            7 January 2029 
16 January 2019             333,333    3.85         3 January 2019           15 January 2029 
16 January 2019             333,333    3.85         3 January 2020           15 January 2029 
16 January 2019             333,334    3.85         3 January 2021           15 January 2029 
 
 

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