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Submission of F/S for the Year 2007 with MD&A
February 19, 2008
To: President,
Stock Exchange of Thailand.
Re: Submission of Financial Statements for the Year 2007.
Enclosures: Financial Statements for the Year 2007
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 2007 ended December 31, 2007, which were audited by the Auditor
and our Audit Committee has already reviewed them.
BEC World group was able to made Baht 2,252 millions as its
net profit for the year 2007, higher than that of the last year by Baht 609
millions, up 37 percent, as the advertising income increased continuously since
the last quarter of 2005, from the higher utilization rate of our commercial
air-time, from expansion of our super-prime slot and from air-time rate
increases on certain day parts pushed our advertising income up14.9% or Baht
908 millions higher than that of prior year, while our costs of services were
lower down as we had reduced the number of local dramas whereas the concerts
and shows businesses are profitable and the selling expenses were slightly
increased. Therefore, our operating margin and growth rate of our profit have
improved substantially.
Please be informed accordingly.
Sincerely Yours,
(Chatchai Thiamtong)
Vice President - Finance
BEC World Plc.
Consolidated Financial Statements for the year 2007
Management Discussion and Analysis:
Business Environment: Following the tragic incident at the New Year Eve,
advertising expenditure through television during the first quarter of 2007 had
dropped around 5% when compares with the previous quarter, and when
major changes incurred at the other channels at the beginning of the second
quarter the industry's data as reported by Nielsen Media Research (NMR)
seems even more strange as the report does not show any improvement
despite the fact that the 2nd quarter normally is the better quarter, but the
2nd quarter ad-spending was 9% worsen year-on-year. However, the industry had
recovered during the 2nd half of the year as ad-spending increased every month
since the beginning of the 3rd quarter showing growth quarter-on-quarter. Even
NMR reported that "Uniliver" the largest advertiser in the industry had
substantially cut its ad-spending through out the last quarter of the year but
the industry still shows 5% year-on-year growth pushed the TV ad-spending in
2007 up slightly higher than that of the prior year at 53.5 billions, but
still lower than the whole ad-spending growth which is reported at 2.5%. TV
still has
58% share of the total ad-spending. On the brighter side, the industry is
recovering and is more diversified which should be a strong base for future
growth.
Structure Changes: In 2007, the BEC World group was almost unchanged
except that now we have "Major Group" as our minority partner in "Thai Ticket"
and we had disposed of all our shares in "SMBT Publishing" to the major
shareholders, and we also had brought the shares of "BEC-Tero Exhibitions"
from our partners increasing our stake in that company to 99.9%, and we also
set up a joint venture with "Senario" to stage "Cats" here in Bangkok..
Operating Results: Due to the change in accounting for investments, from the
equity method to cost method in separate (the company only) financial
statements of the company, the reported profit as shown in the separate
statements is difference from that shown in the consolidated statement. This
MD&A will discuss those numbers shown in the consolidated statement in order
to avoid confusion.
BEC World group was able to made Baht 2,252 millions as its net profit for the
year 2007, higher than that of the last year by Baht 609 millions, up 37
percent, as the advertising income increased continuously since the last
quarter of 2005, from the higher utilization rate of our commercial air-time,
from expansion of our super-prime slot and from air-time rate increases on
certain day parts, while our costs of services were lower down as we had
reduced the number of local dramas whereas the concerts and shows businesses
are profitable and the selling expenses were slightly increased. Therefore, our
operating margin and growth rate of our profit had improved substantially.
Revenues: Our advertising income in the last quarter of 2007 was in line with
the industry, it increased higher than the previous quarter and also higher year
on year. BEC World's performance was better than the industry as its year on
year growth in the fourth quarter is 26.9% and 14.9% higher for the whole
year; the increase came from higher utilization rate of our commercial
air-time,from expansion of our super-prime slot and from air-time rate
increases on certain day parts. The revenue from concerts and shows in 2007
are also higher than the prior year.
Costs and Operating Expenses: Costs of services were lower down as we had
reduced the number of local dramas. Costs of concerts and shows increased in
line with the revenue but at a lower rate. The selling and administration
expenses were slightly increased, only at 2.6%.
Financial positions: Our total assets increased when compared with balances at
the end of the previous year as cash and short term investment of our cash
increased in line with the improved profit. Our liabilities increased as
corporate income tax is higher. Our shareholders' equity increased because of
higher profit. BEC World's financial positions are strong as usual.