3rd quarter 2019 revenues: €67.3m

3^rd quarter 2019 revenues: €67.3m
Q3 organic growth*: +1.0%

The Keyrus Group achieved revenues of €67.3m in the third quarter of 2019, an increase of 5.7% as compared with the third quarter of 2018 (+1.0% at constant scope and exchange rates). For the first nine months of the year, this growth stood at 6.7% (+2.6% at constant scope and exchange rates).

Large Account activities posted increased organic growth of 4.4% (+1.9% based on reported figures) for the 3^rd quarter, and an increase, for the 9 months, of 4.2% (+2.1% based on reported figures). This organic growth, which has proved to be higher than that achieved in the second quarter (+0.6%), confirms that certain markets are seeing an upturn as compared with the slowdown experienced at the start of the year.

Like in the previous quarters, growth remains solid in North America, Latin America, and also in the Africa and Middle East zone.

On the other hand, the slowdown in activities in Europe continues, but actions are nevertheless being taken to improve the activity rate and rationalize overheads, and these should limit the impact of this decline in activity on profitability in the second half of the year.

In this context of performance optimization, Keyrus has not slackened its pace of innovation-related investments. It continues to develop solutions that deliver a rapid return on investment, by relying increasingly on Cloud infrastructures to accelerate its clients' digital transformation cycles.

Mid-Market activities, carried on by the Group's Absys Cyborg subsidiary, posted third-quarter organic growth that was less positive than for the first half of the year, with an increase of 11.1% as compared with the third quarter of 2018 (-2.1% at constant scope and exchange rates).

In a positive Business dynamic, Mid-Market activities were nevertheless adversely affected, in the third quarter, by the desire, on the part of the editors Sage and Microsoft, to suddenly terminate, in early July, the 'on premise' license selling method in favour of a 'subscription' method that significantly impairs revenues, notably for Sage FRP 1000 Cloud, a major product line of Absys Cyborg.

Alongside this, investments in new Cloud Managed Services and Management Consulting offerings continue to pay for themselves, as the order book grows. Lastly, Absys Cyborg completed its acquisition of the Azuneed company, a specialist in SaaS HRIS software suites, so as to strengthen its value proposition for its clients with an SaaS software publishing strategy that broadens its portfolio of agile digital solution offerings in a market that is still in the equipping phase.

A 'white-label' agreement has been reached with Sage for it to distribute and market this service under the name 'Sage Employee Space', and this will enable the editor to reinforce both the competitiveness of its HR Cloud offering, and its strategic and longstanding partnership with Absys Cyborg.

Keyrus will publish its revenues for the 4^th quarter of 2019 on 13 February 2020 after market close.

Breakdown of revenues by operational sector

* DEFINITION OF THE NOTION OF ORGANIC GROWTH IN REVENUES
The notion of organic growth in revenues involves presenting the revenues of the preceding year (N-1, in this case, the 2018 financial year) restated in such a way as to apply the exchange rates and scope of consolidation of the current year (N, in this case, the 2019 financial year). The Group then calculates a figure for organic N-1 revenues by:

• using the exchange rates of year N to calculate the reported revenues of companies outside the Eurozone in year N-1 ;
• adding to the reported revenues for year N-1 the N-1 revenues of companies that came within the scope of consolidation in year N ;
• deducting from the reported revenues for year N-1 the N-1 revenues of companies that went out of the scope of consolidation in year N.

In 2019, the adjustments to go from reported 2018 revenues to organic 2018 revenues look as follows:

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