Telecom Plus PLC

Half-Year Results for the Six Months ended 30 September 2011

Telecom Plus PLC (trading as the Utility Warehouse), which supplies a wide range of utility services (gas, electricity, fixed line telephony, mobile telephony and broadband internet) to both residential and business customers, announces half-year results for the six months ended 30 September 2011.

Financial highlights:

· Revenue up 10% to £161.7m (2010: £147.0m) reflecting continued organic growth

· Operating margin of 6.4% (2010: 5.3%)

· Profit before tax up 31% to £11.1m (2010: £8.5m)

· Strong underlying cash generation

· Earnings per share 12.2p (2010: 9.4p)

· Interim dividend increased to 10p per share (2010: 8p)

· Intention to pay a total dividend of 27p for the current year (2010: 22p)

Operating Highlights:

· Total services supplied up by 99,503 to 1,270,639

· Customer numbers up by 21,349 to 392,699

· Further growth in average services per residential club member to 3.53 (2010: 3.37)

· Organic growth in high quality customers gathering momentum

· Autumn sales conferences attended by over 3,500 distributors

· New generation website successfully launched

Commenting on today’s results, Andrew Lindsay, Chief Executive, said:

“We saw a consistent flow of new distributors joining the business, with customer and service numbers accelerating strongly during the second quarter. We are extremely pleased that this improvement has been broadly spread across all our major services, and with the significant increase we have seen in the proportion of new members who are applying for at least four major services to around 40%.

“Second half revenues and profits will benefit from the combined impact of a larger customer base and the seasonal nature of our business which sees most customers use around 70% of their annual energy consumption during the winter period.

“In an uncertain economic climate, our business is well positioned to deliver continuing strong organic growth in customer numbers, with rising revenues, profitability and earnings. We anticipate paying a final dividend of 17p per share making a total of 27p (2011: 22p) for the full year, and face the future with considerable confidence.”

Yes indeed, after several months of consistent, Slight Edge cycling sessions indoors, I began my outdoor season last monday. Was it easy to do? No, but it was easier NOT to do, especially as a cold had interrupted my fitness regime, and put the dampers on my consistent efforts over the winter, the previous 2 weeks running.
I’m back! I’m so thankful and grateful for a happy, healthy, wise and wealthy lifestyle… ;-)

The Outdoor Slight Edge Cyclist

The Utility Warehouse offers the UK’s cheapest mobile tariffs – guaranteed! In fact, they’re so confident that you’ll save money compared to your current mobile provider that they’ll give you back double the difference if you don’t!

•    The Utility Warehouse has a range of mobile tariffs, offering guaranteed savings, simplicity, flexibility and outstanding value for money.

Benefits include:

•    The UK’s cheapest mobile tariffs – guaranteed!
•    Get any handset on any tariff
•    Huge range of handsets including the latest Smart Phones
•    Change tariffs whenever you want for maximum savings
•    Cheap calls and texts outside your allowance – up to 85% less than other networks
•    No minimum term contract on ‘SIM only’
•    Free itemised call listings (even on ‘Pay as you Go’)
•    International Calls from just 5p.

•    ‘Pay as you Go‘ on any tariff – choose any Utility Warehouse tariff on Pay as you Go, and the line rental is simply added to your monthly bill.

You automatically start each month with all the free calls and texts that come with your tariff – then simply top up if you want to make any extra calls outside your bundle.

This is a unique offering, providing the security and peace of mind provided by Pay as you Go with massive inclusive allowances of calls and texts.

•    Make huge savings on your mobile phone bills with the Utility Warehouse. With standard calls or texts outside your allowance up to 85% cheaper than other main networks, and a great range of the latest handsets to choose from, including BlackBerrys and Smart Phones, there’s something to suit everyone.

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A worthy champion, Stella English was deservedly hired by Lord Alan Sugar as The Apprentice, 2010.
So how would you have rated Stella’s chances of success when The Apprentice 2010 first kicked off?

Well, one thing is for sure – most, if not all of the 12 candidates are capable of succeeding in any venture that they undertake. The reason for this, in my view is that they are positive, success-focussed individuals that reside in the top 5% bracket of UK self-starters. Chances are, if YOU are in the top 5% of your particular game or group, for example in sport, corporate employment or business management/development, then you are not the type that takes notice of, or advice from ‘dream stealers’. You have the qualities for success, you’ve already mapped out your career and your objectives by setting goals and implementing actions to achieve those goals – you are a Success Personality demonstrating these success traits:

Sense of direction (towards achieving goals)
Understanding (of objectives)
Courage & Conviction (to succeed)
Charity & Compassion (towards others)
Esteem (high self esteem)
Self confidence
Self awareness

Success is a journey, not a destination” ~ Ben Sweetland

“Okay, so what has all this got to do with the Utility Warehouse?” you ask.

Well, after having shared the journey through ‘The Process’ with the 12 Apprentice candidates, it’s clear to me that most, if not all of these confident individuals have the potential to succeed as Telecom plus / Utility Warehouse Partners!

I am certain that someone like Stella English would see the potential for success in our business venture for the following reasons:

• Working in Investment Banking as a Business Development Manager, Stella will have a working knowledge of business models such as Network Marketing, which generate residual income.

• Being a woman in business, it’s a well-known fact that women generally are more effective at networking and are better ‘people persons’.

• Stella is a natural leader of teams, a Team Player – she has already demonstrated many times over in The Process, her energetic enthusiasm and cool confidence to get the best out of people – to nurture them to their individual successes.

If you are inspired by Stella’s success and feel that Network Marketing could be your vehicle to take you on a journey of Personal Wealth and Personal Wisdom, then take that first step now by clicking on this Life Of Abundance link.

I’m inviting you to an event of the highest quality. The speakers are some of the UK’s most respected entrepreneurs and leaders, the attendees are people you want in your network and the theme of the event is extremely relevant in today’s economy.

This event is called “Unleash Your Power of Influence”. It’s an event that acknowledges that in order to create wealth, freedom, power and transformation you must first unleash your power of influence.

Influence is the secret behind great businesses, great teams, great charities, great innovations and great movements. Influence is the power to make your ideas a reality.

The speakers at this conference include:

> Simon Woodroffe: Founder of YO!-Sushi and YOTEL.
> Jeremy Gilley: Founder of PeaceOneDay.Org
> Sam Roddick: Founder of Coco De Mare and daughter of Dame Anita Roddick
> Mark Koska OBE: Inventor of the retractible syringe
> Steve Bolton: Leading Property Developer, Author and Entrepreneur
> Daniel Priestley: Entrepreneur, Author and acclaimed International Speaker

Click on the link below for the full line-up …
Unleash Your Power of Influence

This conference is held in support of PeaceOneDay.org, the organisation that successfully campaigned for the world’s first UN Ratified day of peace  (September 21).  The conference is designed to engage UK entrepreneurs to become more influential to create more and then contribute more.

I’m sure you will see enormous value in attending this event:

Unleash Your Power of Influence

Enjoy!

PayBox is a rapidly growing online currency and payment processing service. They are on a quest to become the best payment processing service anywhere. They aim to achieve this with the help of their dedicated EarlyBird users – I’m one of those EarlyBird users ;-)

The PayBox service is still in development. So, for now, all of their transactions are in a “Closed Box” system. This means that all payments sent, and all payments received, stay within the PayBox system at this time. Currently, we users can send person-to-person payments (within PayBox) and even buy and sell from one another using the PayBox Shop.

PayBox’s main objective is to “Open the Box“. This means providing everything you would find in a full-featured payment processor:

  • Debit cards linked to PayBox accounts.
  • Easily buy and sell using your PayBox account.
  • Easily send and receive money using your PayBox account.
  • Purchase from nearly any online merchant.
  • Withdraw to nearly any bank account world-wide.
  • Possibly withdraw to other online payment processors.
  • In-exchange from any major world currency.
  • Out-exchange to any major world currency.

Why not join us EarlyBird users and gain the advantage right now… check it out for yourselves: PayBox

For those of you interested in creating wealth through investing in property, click the following link for details of tomorrow’s event:

The Sussex Property Networking Club – monthly event in Brighton.

Living a Life Of Abundance means appreciating our magnificent world around us – and being thankful and grateful for this opportunity to share our Personal Happiness ;-)

Sunrise over our Life Of Abundance

Yesterday evening, we went to a fundraising event – with a difference – to help support the “Friends of Herons Dale” cause.

The fundraiser was held at the Community Hall in Shoreham, sponsored by Shoreham Port.

One of our goals as we travel this ‘Life Of Abundance‘ journey is ‘Giving Back‘ to the local community.

What was the “difference” about this fundraising event? Well, we had no idea that these things went on!

What I mean by that is the ‘betting on horses’ means of raising money. Let me explain, because it’s a simple yet fantastic way in which to get supporters truly involved in the cause.

A large screen showed an option of viewing up to 24 pre-recorded clips of official horse and pig races in the UK (yes, I said ‘pigs’). Each race was sponsored by a local business.

Presented with a booklet of 8 Race Cards, we placed our bets on our favoured winning horse (or pig!) – that is, a number between 1 and 8 – accompanied usually with laughter, due to the names of these beasts, such as ‘Knot a Sausage’ or ‘Greased Piglet.

Then you queued at the Tote to place your bet, with minimum of £1. You could also become a horse owner for £5.

The compere would then ask the audience/supporters to shout out a number between 1 and 24, and the corresponding film clip would be run. Just as in any horse race, there was plenty of raucous shouting, with people urging their favoured stallions (or piggy) to the finishing line.

If you backed a winner, you collected your winnings. Half of the bets placed for each race were put into the fundraising pot, and the other half shared out amongs the backers of the winning horse/pig.

There was a 9th race, oh yes! That was the ‘Auction Race’, where you could place bids, auction style, to enter your own, named horse into the race. This raised a few hundred pounds even before the race started! This last race was run and the owner of the winning horse received half of the auction bid total.

The evening ended with a Raffle Draw. we came away with a bottle of wine and a lunchtime meal for two at La Galeria in Shoreham. Fantastic!

The best thing about the whole evening was the amount of money raised from all the proceedings – over 3 thousand pounds! Would we go again?

Most definitely, because Herons Dale is a school for Special Needs children – how can you not do your bit to ‘give back’ in this marvellous way, to ‘Special Children‘? A true ‘Life Of Abundance‘ gesture :-)

Fantastic news! We managed to get tickets for the UK Marillion Weekend next year ;-)
In case our fellow Marillion fans have been habiting another planet lately (or Assylum Satellite 1?), here’s the web link for further information:

http://www.marillionweekend.com/uk/index.htm

We’re massively looking forward to this one!