15 กุมภาพันธ์ 2549
Submission of F/S for the Year 2005 with MD&A
February 15, 2006
To: President,
Stock Exchange of Thailand.
Re: Submission of Financial Statements for the Year 2005.
Enclosures: Financial Statements for the Year 2005
and the relevant management discussion and analysis.
We are sending you herewith the enclosed financial statements
of the company and the consolidated statement of the group for the year
2005 ended December 31, 2005, which were audited by the Auditor and our
Audit Committee has already reviewed them.
For the year 2005, our advertising revenue we had dropped a
lot from previous year level, especially in the first half of the year.
This reflects the problems within the advertising industry that ad-spending
was affected from natural catastrophe, fuel price adjustments and other
issues which had bad impact on purchasing power and consumers' confidence.
Even though, situation improved in the later part of the year, helping us
were able to improve our operating results to be better than the prior
year during the last quarter of the year, but the improvement is not big
enough to cover the shortfall during the earlier part of the year. Further
more, because of us expanding the primetime and redeveloping certain time
slots outside the primetime, since the middle of prior year, and our
reluctant to discontinue those to protect the previous investments,
in the hope of the improvement, our costs and operating expenses had
increased thus had further lowered our operating margin and reduced
our net profit to only Baht 881 millions, as discussed further in the
attached management discussion and analysis.
Please be informed accordingly.
Sincerely Yours,
(Chathai Thiamtong)
Vice President - Finance
BEC World Plc.
Consolidated Financial Statements for the year 2005
Management Discussion and Analysis:
Structure Changes:
In 2005, the BEC World group had some small changes in the structure.
In July, we had invested 49.99 percent in Thai Audiotex Services Ltd.
as our new subsidiary, at Bath 6.22 million; and in December had sold
11 percent in ThemeStar Ltd. changing its status from a subsidiary to
be just an associated company.
Operating Results:
BEC World group made Baht881 millions as its net profit for the year
2005, a decrease of Baht 721 millions - 45 percent lower than that of
the prior year as the result of the decrease of advertising income
while our costs and operating expenses had increased, as the industry
was not growing (as expected) in line with our expansions, thus pushed
our operating margin substantially lower especially during the first
half of the year. However, our operating results had improved a lot
during the later part of the year, especially in the last quarter as
we had higher advertising revenue (an increase of 9 percent) and higher
net profit (an increase of 23 percent) when compared with the same
period of last year.
Revenue:
Revenue from Sales
YEAR YoY
(Baht:Million) 4Q05 3Q05 QoQ 4Q04 YoY 2005 2004 B:m %
Advertising
Income 1,404 1,183 221 18.6% 1,293 111 8.6% 4,963 5,493 -530 -9.6%
Copyright &
Other Services 115 79 36 44.8% 110 5 4.4% 312 220 92 41.9%
Concerts
and Shows 162 201 -39-19.3% 217 -55-25.3% 1,033 607 426 70.3%
Total Sales
Revenues 1,681 1,463 218 14.9% 1,620 61 3.8% 6,308 6,320 -12 -0.2%
Advertising income in the last quarter of the year at Baht 1,404 million,
is 18.6% higher than that of the previous quarter and 8.6% higher than
that of the same period of last year as the results of higher utilization
rates achieved during the quarter, especially during the primetime, thus
helped reduce lower the big gap from prior year incurred during the earlier
part of the year. The revenue from "concerts and shows" was lower down
somewhat in the 4th quarter as the number of event had reduced, but for
the whole year had increased a lot as ThemeStar's activities were included
during the year.
Costs and Operating Expenses:
Costs and operating expenses in 2005 were increased a lot from prior year
level. Apart from the inclusion of ThemeStar, the increases are also
caused by our expansion efforts both within the primetime and outside of
the primetime which started since the middle of 2004. They still increased
during the 4th quarter, mainly because of the seasonal pattern and the
investments in the new UHF stations, in the provinces, to upgrade the
quality of reception. However, the growth rate had already reduced.
Financial positions:
Our assets and liabilities, in general, are lower than the balance at
the end the prior year, whereas the deduction of cash and cash equivalent,
is the biggest difference as a result of the lower profit. Our
"fixed assets" and our "right to use property" had increased from
our investments within the year, for the future benefits.