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VRX Reports First Quarter Results (Unaudited)
Vancouver, B.C. (May 15, 2008), VRX Worldwide Inc. (TSX-V:VRW) reports its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ending March 31, 2008. The financial results reflect strong growth, year-over-year and quarterover-quarter, of the Company’s Licensing Fees and a significant improvement in the Company’s Gross Profit and EBITDA.
Total revenue for the first quarter of 2007 was $978,798 with quarterly Licensing fees reaching a record $432,029 after eighteen straight months of growth. “As the global online travel industry evolves, the demand for high quality, consistent, rich media content is escalating. We’ve seen this with large scale rich media projects being initiated by companies such as Wyndham Hotel Group,” commented David MacLaren, President and CEO of VRX. “With this demand comes the growing need for supporting services such as rich media content hosting and distribution services. This can readily be seen in the increase in our Licensing fees over the past eighteen months. Today, with the recent launch of our new distribution service, Athena, we are now delivering an end-to-end rich media content solution that’s driving both our Service and Licensing revenues.” In the first quarter, VRX’s Service fees were generated primarily by production agreements with Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, Red Roof Inns and Wyndham Hotel Group. Both Fairmont and Red Roof projects were started in the beginning of this quarter whereas the Wyndham project is now in its third year. As the Company completed shooting most of Wyndham’s 6,000 properties in 2007, VRX is currently covering all new openings and renovations of the Wyndham brands: Howard Johnson®, Travelodge®, Super 8®, Days Inn®, Ramada®, Wingate Inn® and Baymont Inn and Suites®. Cost of Sales
Costs and Expenses
Sales, marketing and product promotion expenses increased 83% due to additions made to our sales force to actively pursue and maintain new customers and due to increased marketing efforts. Research and development expenses increased by 120% due to an increase of programmers’ salary and wages and consulting fees to further develop innovative products and services as well as the Company’s new technology initiative to improve production efficiency, the company's distribution and hosting platform and add to its stable of products and services. General and administrative expenses decreased 62% due to the reclassification and to discontinuing the services of a third party providing accounting and finance duties. The Company now employs an internal finance team with a scalable financial infrastructure that will support the Company’s growth plans for the next three to five years. Net Income (Loss)
Balance Sheet
Improvement in the Company’s working capital during 2008 is largely dependent on the success of the Company’s Hotel Program, Athena and its technology initiatives. Ultimately, the Company’s increase in liquidity and capital resources will be based upon its ability to achieve consistently profitable operations. Outlook
Detailed Financial Statements
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