News Out On WEYL!!
Weyland Tech Business Outlook and Corporate Strategy.
NEW YORK, NY, April 25, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Weyland Tech Inc. (WEYL) ("Weyland " or the "Company"), a provider of mobile business applications, released its 2017 Annual Report on Form 10-K, and announced today its fiscal 2018 business strategy and updates on its e-Wallet initiative.
Fiscal 2017 Highlights
· Revenue was $15.6 million
· Gross income was $4.3 million
“We are pleased to report fiscal 2017 service revenues increased 20% from fiscal 2016, which was the result of our efforts to increase market share for the CreateApp platform during 2017 in highly competitive emerging markets with reduced price points, as well as new subscriptions sold to existing customers and subscriptions sold directly to new customers,” commented Mr. Brent Suen, CEO of Weyland Tech, Inc. “The Company used the increased revenue to make significant investment into research and development, marketing and product development which management expects will create increased shareholder value in the near to mid-term.”
Revenue for fiscal 2017 was $15.6 million, up from revenue of $12.9 million in fiscal 2016. The increase in service revenues was primarily the result of increased volumes in the Company’s core mobile business application platform - CreateApp.
Gross income in fiscal 2017 was $4.3 million, compared to gross income of $5.3 million in 2016. The decline was due primarily to an increase in cost of service period to period. Cost of service was $11.3 million and $7.8 million in fiscal 2017 and 2016, respectively. The increase reflects cost associated with an increase in our Service revenues from growth in clients served.
Financial Condition
As of December 31, 2017, Weyland Tech, Inc. had 2.3 million in working capital, $1.06 million in cash and cash equivalents and $2.05 million in total liabilities. Stockholders’ equity stood at $3.3 million, compared to $2.6 million as of December 31, 2016. Cash used in operating activities during fiscal 2017 was $332,071.
Business Outlook
Weyland Tech, Inc. is focused on mobile commerce enablement via our enhanced platform built in 2017, and offered on a Platform-as-a-Service (“PaaS”) basis, and the company’s e-wallet initiative. Recent product launches with our strategic partners DPEX (Indonesia), BTG (Thailand), Augicom/Orange (France) are representative of the PaaS platform strategy and product offering.
“CreateApp continues to grow and remains competitive in the highly competitive mobile business application marketplace for DIY Apps, while facing global pricing that is, in some markets, as low as several dollars per month and even free with paid upgrades,” Mr. Suen continued. “However, the Company is optimistic about the prospects for its core mobile business applications going forward because the Company utilized the increased revenue to make significant investment into research and development, marketing and product development which, while contributing to a net loss of $74,282 for the year, management expects will create significant shareholder value in the near to mid-term.”
As a result, the Company’s core product has evolved over the course of 2017 to capitalize on the immediate opportunity for developing a larger network of valuable users and merchants by developing services that will enable the adoption of mobile commerce across Greater South East Asia. The platform enhancements have taken the Company’s technology from a standalone DIY app builder to an enhanced platform built to enable mobile commerce.
In 2018, Weyland will focus on scaling this business model by continuing to develop and expand strategic partnerships that would increase the number of users and merchants available to users of the Company’s products on a Platform-as-a-Service (“PaaS”) basis. These efforts will expand on the success of recent product launches representative of the PaaS platform strategy and product offering with our strategic partners DPEX (Indonesia), BTG (Thailand), and Augicom/Orange (France). And after extensive discussions with our partners, management believes that supporting these initiatives thru deeper engagement, interaction and co-marketing/sales will substantially benefit the Company in 2018 and beyond.
Growing the PaaS offering will also benefit from 2017s ancillary initiatives in eSports and online-to-offline commerce, which will be absorbed into the PaaS focus in 2018. The lessons from our eSports initiative will inform marketing of the PaaS platform and guide our efforts in attracting partners that service the young upcoming entrepreneurs in this and other exciting new drivers of SMB growth. Similarly, the lessons of the O2O trial in Hong Kong, have and will continue to benefit the development of the advanced logistical and transactional components that differentiate our platform from the stand alone DIY App builders that CreateApp has competed with historically.
The Company is also pleased to report that its 2017 e-wallet initiative, AtozPay, has surpassed expectations since its launch, achieving stronger than anticipated customer traction with limited marketing expense. With the AtozPay e-wallet, the Company created a ‘consumer facing’ product offering that supports the PaaS strategy developed by the enhancements to the CreateApp platform and enables Weyland to drive higher monetization on those platforms by providing payments capabilities.
AtoZPay is designed to be a robust, universal payment platform therefore its growth is not limited to the Company’s PaaS customers alone.
In management’s view, the recent acquisition offer from DinPay did not fairly compensate the shareholders for the value being created with Atozpay. Therefore, instead of a sale of the Company, to maximize the independent growth of AtozPay and consequently shareholder value, management has begun the process to spin-off the e-wallet business via a special dividend.
This effort is intended to boost shareholder value by creating a ‘stand-alone’ vehicle for the fast growing global e-money/e-wallet industry. Private and public transactions in the e-money/e-wallet industry in South East Asia are growing more frequent with valuations that would represent substantial value creation for existing shareholders.
While additional details will be released over the coming months, it is the Company’s belief that the spin-off and a subsequent IPO of the e-wallet business can be completed by the end of fiscal 2018.
Large institutional firms approached to discuss financing the e-wallets growth consistently recommended the Company focus on revenue production of developed platforms. Our existing PaaS partners expressed a similar desire to focus on expanding those platforms with us. Management agrees that by focusing on the PaaS platform and the e-wallet business, the Company has the ability to grow at a more rapid pace as well as exploit the Company’s advantages in those markets together with our partners.
Finally, the Company continues to be interested in bringing blockchain technology to our PaaS platforms and e-wallet technologies where appropriate, however due to regulatory considerations that could hinder the growth of AtozPay the Company will not be moving forward with Tokes Platform at this time, and will instead focus on growing e-wallet transaction volume and gaining share of our e-wallet in our markets.
We look forward to providing additional information as the Company continues to grow.
About Weyland Tech Inc.
Weyland Tech's CreateApp platform is focused on the Asia markets. Our CreateApp platform offered in 14 languages, enables small and medium sized businesses ("SMB's") to create native mobile applications ("APP") for Apple's iOS and Google Android without technical knowledge or background. Empowering SMB's to increase sales, reach more customers and promote their products and services via simple easy to build mobile APPs in an affordable and cost-effective manner.
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