CALGARY,
ALBERTA--(Marketwire - March 12, 2010) - Cell-Loc Location Technologies
Inc. (TSX VENTURE:XCT) ("CLTI" or the "Company") makes
the following announcements.
Challenging economic conditions
in the Company's markets and ongoing constrained consumer and business spending
continue to hamper CLTI's ability to finalize agreements with new customers in
Brazil and to secure additional sales from its existing Brazilian customers. In addition, the Company and its joint venture partner Samsung have been unable
to deliver on any material milestones under their joint development project. Specifically, no definitive release date has been set for the commercial SoC
product for the Company's beacon nor has any material progress been achieved in
developing a receiver system for a small size transceiver module and
single-chip solution. Due to these ongoing challenges, and in an effort to
further reduce its operating costs, the Company has today provided working
notice to 6 of its Calgary based employees.
As a result of these challenges
CLTI intends to explore all reasonable alternatives to monetize some or all of
its operating assets, including its equity interest in its indirect majority
owned operating subsidiary X3 Telecomunicações e Equipamentos Ltda ("X3"),
while also working to increase and secure all revenue streams payable to the
Company by X3, including under the Company's technology license agreement with
X3. The Company also continues to negotiate with potential new customers for
the Company's location-based service offering in Brazil.
Despite the Canadian layoffs,
CLTI expects to be able to service its existing Brazilian customer base through
its remaining Brazilian based technical staff. However, in the event of the
occurrence of a material technical problem with the Company's network which
cannot be adequately remediated by the Company's remaining technical staff,
customers may be entitled to reduce the number of the Company's beacons being
employed in customers' fleets. In this event, the Company's revenue base could
be materially eroded. In addition, due to the Canadian layoffs, the Company's
ability to make advances to the functionality of its technology has become
materially hampered.
Certain officers of the Company
had previously provided unsecured debt financing to the Company and the
Company's officers have deferred salary to facilitate the Company's ongoing
operations. These individuals have agreed to temporarily forbear under their
existing loans and salary deferrals, pending the results of the above cost
cutting and asset monetization measures. If successful, the Company believes
that these measures should lead to free cash flow being realized by the
Company, which cash flow could be used to meet the Company's ongoing business
obligations. Provided that the foregoing measures are successful in the near
term, the Company will continue to operate its business in Canada and in
Brazil. If the foregoing efforts are not successful in the near term, and the
Company is unable to secure additional debt or equity financing, including from
insiders (of which no assurance can be given), the Company believes that
existing lenders will not continue to forbear under their loan arrangements. In such event it is unlikely that the Corporation will be able to continue as a
going concern.
CLTI also reports that Mr. Bohdan
Romaniuk has advised the Company of his decision not to seek re-election for
another term on the Board of Directors. Mr. Romaniuk, who served for twelve
years as a Director and the past ten years as Chairman, has accordingly
submitted his resignation to allow an opportunity for a replacement to be found
prior to the upcoming Annual and Special General Meeting of shareholders. Mr.
Mike Lisogurski, who has served on the CLTI Board for ten years, has also
provided notice that he will not be seeking re-election for another term and
has likewise stepped down from the Board of Directors. CLTI would like to
sincerely thank both Mr. Romaniuk and Mr. Lisogurski for their many years of
service with the Company. The resignations were not due to any disagreement
between the Company and the Directors.
SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS:
Certain
statements regarding Cell-Loc Location Technologies Inc. including management's
assessment of future plans and operations, may constitute forward-looking
statements under applicable securities laws and necessarily involve known and
unknown risks and uncertainties, most of which are beyond CLTI's control. These
risks may cause actual financial and operating results, performance, levels of
activity and achievements to differ materially from those expressed in, or
implied by, such forward-looking statements.
Such
risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: the impact of general
economic conditions in Canada and Brazil; industry conditions including changes
in laws and regulations including adoption of new laws and regulations, and
changes in how they are interpreted and enforced, both in Canada and Brazil;
competition; the lack of availability of qualified personnel; fluctuations in
foreign exchange or interest rates; the ability to access sufficient capital
from internal and external sources and the effectiveness of the Company's
planned cost cutting measures. Readers are also referred to the risk factors
described in other documents that CLTI files from time to time with securities
regulatory authorities.
Accordingly,
CLTI gives no assurance nor makes any representations or warranty that the
expectations conveyed by the forward-looking statements will prove to be
correct and actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in the
forward looking statements. CLTI undertakes no obligation to publicly update or
revise any forward-looking statements.
The TSX Venture Exchange has neither approved nor disapproved of the contents of this news release.