Intermap Technologies Reports 2017 First Quarter Financial Results and Management Update

DENVER, April 27, 2017 /CNW/ - (TSX: IMP) (ITMSF:BB) – Intermap Technologies Corporation ("Intermap" or the "Company") today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2017.

For the first quarter of 2017, Intermap reported total revenue of $2.6 million, compared to $1.4 million last year. For the first quarter 2017 and 2016, personnel expense was $1.9 million and $2.7 million, respectively. First quarter adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP and non-IFRS financial measure, was negative $0.8 million, compared with negative $2.3 million last year.

In addition, the Company announced members of its new senior management team.

Jennifer Bakken, a nine year veteran of Intermap, has been appointed Executive Vice President Finance and Chief Financial Officer. Keith Tennant, a 30-year veteran of Intermap, has been appointed Executive Vice President Government Solutions and Chief Operating Officer. Ivan Maddox, a 17-year veteran of Intermap, has been appointed Executive Vice President Commercial Solutions; and Stephen Griffiths, an 18-year veteran of Intermap, has been appointed Executive Vice President Value-Added Data Solutions and Chief Technology Officer.

"Our gradually improving financial position reflects progress in our strategy to achieve long term profitable growth within Intermap's core business," commented Patrick Blott, Chairman and CEO of Intermap. "We are executing from a unique position of strength with a fresh leadership team that contributes 75 years of combined experience delivering geospatial solutions. This new organization is driven, customer focused, and pointed in the right strategic direction."  

As a reminder, last fall the Company adopted a no further guidance disclosure policy until it is profitable and its debt burden has been reduced.

Financial Review

All amounts in this news release are in United States dollars, unless otherwise noted.

Intermap is striving to become the premier worldwide provider of geospatial data solutions.

Our new strategic goal, which focuses on the core business, currently generates revenue from three primary business activities, comprised of i) data acquisition and collection, using proprietary radar sensor technologies, ii) value-added data products and services, which leverage the Company's proprietary NEXTMap® database, together with proprietary software and fusion technologies, and iii) commercial applications and solutions, including a webstore and software sales targeting selected industry verticals that rely on accurate high resolution elevation data.

For the first quarter of 2017, Intermap reported total revenue of $2.6 million, compared to $1.4 million last year. Government solutions revenue was $1.8 million, compared to $0.2 million last year. The increase from the prior year relates to our previously announced Southeast Asian assignment, without a similar project at the beginning of 2016. Value added data solutions contributed revenue of $0.5 million, compared to $0.8 million last year. The decrease from prior year relates primarily to a large data sale during 2016, without a similar transaction in 2017. With respect to value-added data sales, the Company has implemented a new process for reviewing the profitability of each of its data accounts and is selectively reducing data sales to unprofitable customers and competitors. Software and solutions revenue was $0.3 million, compared to $0.4 million last year. The decrease from the prior year relates to the timing of contract renewals. Attrition was nil.

For the first quarter 2017 and 2016, personnel expense was $1.9 million and $2.7 million, respectively. The decrease is primarily due to decreases in headcount on a year-over-year basis, following the restructuring actions taken at the end of the third quarter and beginning of the fourth quarter of 2016.

First quarter adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP and non-IFRS financial measure, was negative $0.8 million, compared with negative $2.3 million last year. Adjusted EBITDA is defined as earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, and excludes non-recurring payments, share-based compensation expense, fair value adjustments to derivative instruments and gain or loss on foreign currency translation. Adjusted EBITDA is not a recognized performance measure under IFRS. The most directly comparable measure to adjusted EBITDA calculated in accordance with IFRS is net income (loss). See Non-IFRS Measures below for a reconciliation of the Company's net loss to adjusted EBITDA for the first quarter of 2017 as compared to 2016.

The Company's consolidated financial statements and management's discussion and analysis will be filed on SEDAR at: www.sedar.com on April 27, 2017. Important factors, including those discussed in the Company's regulatory filings (www.sedar.com) could cause actual results to differ from the Company's expectations and those differences may be material.

Non-IFRS Measures

Adjusted EBITDA is not a recognized performance measure under IFRS and does not have a standardized meaning prescribed by IFRS. The term EBITDA consists of net income (loss) and excludes interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. Adjusted EBITDA is included as a supplemental disclosure because management believes that such measurement provides a better assessment of the Company's operations on a continuing basis by eliminating certain non-cash charges and charges that are nonrecurring. The most directly comparable measure to adjusted EBITDA calculated in accordance with IFRS is net income (loss).

(UNAUDITED)		Three months ended March 31,
U.S. $ millions		2017			2016
Net loss		$	(1.9)		$	(9.3)
	Financing costs		0.7			6.6
	Income tax recovery		(0.2)			-
	Depreciation of property and equipment		0.2			0.2
	EBITDA	$	(1.2)		$	(2.5)
	Non-recurring payments		0.5			-
	Change in value of derivative instruments		(0.1)			(0.1)
	Share-based compensation		-			0.2
	Loss (gain) on foreign currency translation		-			0.1
	Adjusted EBITDA	$	(0.8)		$	(2.3)

About Intermap Technologies

Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Intermap (www.intermap.com) is an industry leader in geospatial intelligence solutions. These geospatial solutions can be used in a wide range of applications including, but not limited to, location-based information, risk assessment, geographic information systems, engineering, utilities, global positioning systems maps, oil and gas, renewable energy, hydrology, environmental planning, land management, wireless communications, transportation, advertising, and 3D visualization. Intermap has three core sources of revenue: data acquisition and collection, value-added data products and services and commercial applications and solutions, and software solutions and services. The Company is a world leader in data fusion, analytics, and orthorectification, and has decades of experience aggregating data derived from a number of different sensor technologies and data sources. For more information please visit www.intermap.com.

Intermap Reader Advisory

Certain information provided in this news release constitutes forward-looking statements, including the Company's strategic goal and revenue generating activities. The words "anticipate", "expect", "project", "estimate", "forecast" and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. Although Intermap believes that these statements are based on information and assumptions which are current, reasonable and complete, these statements are necessarily subject to a variety of known and unknown risks and uncertainties. You can find a discussion of such risks and uncertainties in our Annual Information Form and other securities filings. While the Company makes these forward-looking statements in good faith, should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary significantly from those expected. Accordingly, no assurances can be given that any of the events anticipated by the forward-looking statements will transpire or occur, or if any of them do so, what benefits that the Company will derive therefrom. All subsequent forward-looking statements, whether written or oral, attributable to Intermap or persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by these cautionary statements. The forward-looking statements contained in this news release are made as at the date of this news release and the Company does not undertake any obligation to update publicly or to revise any of the forward-looking statements made herein, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required by applicable securities law. 

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