Be Heard Group PLC Annual General Meeting Statement

Be Heard Group PLC (LON:BHRD), the digital marketing services group, will hold its Annual General Meeting today at 9.30am at Lewis Silkin LLP, 5 Chancery Lane, London EC4A 1BL.

Peter Scott, the company’s Executive Chairman, will make the following statement:

2017 has started well and Be Heard is trading in line with the Board’s expectations. MMT in particular is growing strongly as Group cross referrals start to impact.

New business wins this year include Cath Kidston, BDO and Brakes at agenda21, PPG, Sense, Save the Children and Gowling WLG at MMT Digital and Clyde & Co, the Society of Petroleum Engineers and ACCA at Kameleon.

We have also made further progress broadening existing client relationships with Vodafone, Essilor, Northumbria Water, Wiltshire Farm Foods and BDO served by two or more partners within the Group.

In February, we acquired a 75% stake in Freemavens, an analytics and insight consultancy, which provides an entry point into big data and analytics and brings a number of new clients into the Group including Unilever, Barclays, Channel 4 and RNLI.

Key product developments in 2017 include a new Artificial Intelligence-optimised media trading service at agenda21, enhancing its ability to maximise clients’ Return on Investment from digital media.

Industry citations include two awards in online marketing platform Kentico’s Site of the Year Awards for MMT and a bronze award at the Brand Film Festival for Kameleon. agenda21 achieved Gold Accreditation in the IPA Continuous Professional Development scheme, the only new agency to do so in 2017.

We continue to explore a strong and growing pipeline of earnings enhancing acquisition opportunities in line with our strategy of building a high-performance pure-play digital marketing services group.

 

Gresham House Strategic PLC has a total interest of 10.6% in Be Heard Group PLC correct as of 28 April 2017 month end NAV announcement, released 01 May 2017

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