Annidis Corporation Reports 2017 First Quarter Results

OTTAWA, May 25, 2017 /CNW/ - Annidis Corporation (TSX Venture: RHA) ("Annidis" or the Company"). The audited consolidated financial statements for the three months ended March 31, 2017, and the related Management's Discussion and Analysis are available at www.sedar.com.

Highlights

The Company shipped 10 units to Mistarunited Technology Co., Limited ("Mingda"), its Chinese distribution partner and major shareholder, in the first quarter of 2017 and expects to ship a significant number of additional units throughout the year. Production activity has increased in order to meet this higher demand. The Company has received prepayments in 2016 and 2017 on the units to be shipped throughout 2017.

The Company's sales efforts remain focused on:

• growing the installed base in the Chinese market,
  
  
• repairing and building relationships with key opinion leaders ("KOL's") and large US buying groups, thus providing a forum to present the Annidis product to large audiences and leverage the sales effort, and
  
  
• increasing customer service, education and support through a best-practices benchmarking program to ensure the installed units achieve superior image quality and maximum utilization.

Key Financial Metrics
	Three months ended March 31
	2017	2016	% Change
			%
As at March 31
Installed Base (units in clinics)	127	111	12.6%
	$	$
Revenue	565,258	372,382	51.8
Net loss	(880,553)	(1,206,405)	27.0
Net loss per share	(0.01)	(0.01)	19.9

Financial Highlights

• Revenue increased by 52% from $372,382 in the first quarter of 2016 to $565,258 in the first quarter of 2017 as the Company sold 10 units in 2017 compared to five units in 2016.
  
  
• The gross margin percentage was lower in 2017 than 2016 – 13% of revenue compared to 60%. All the units sold in 2017 were sold to China at the lower distributor price. In addition, certain changes in the procurement process resulted in higher component costs. The Company is working on reducing the overall costs and expects unit costs to decline throughout the year.
  
  
• Operating expenses declined by 18% from the prior year - $1,035,885 in 2016 to $853,448 in 2017. This decrease resulted from a reduction in sales and marketing expense in the current year of $146,886, largely attributable to the restructuring of the Company's US sales department that occurred in the third quarter of 2015 and continued up until the end of the first half of 2016.
  
  
• For the three month period ended March 31, 2017, the Company incurred a net loss of $880,553, or ($0.01) per share, compared to a loss of $1,206,405, or ($0.01) per share, for the same period in 2016.

About Annidis Corporation

Annidis (TSX-V: RHA) has developed and manufactures and sells a new patented imaging platform technology based on Multi-Spectral Imaging ("MSI"). This new technology is opening a new frontier in disease identification and its management. The Annidis MSI technology allows eye-care professionals to view non-invasively the deepest areas of the eye aiding eye care professionals in the early identification and treatment of debilitating eye diseases. The Company's existing RHA Gold, used by eye care professionals as a broad based tool for detecting early-onset of eye related diseases such as Dry AMD, has a potential market of over 20,000 clinics in North America and further opportunities in China working with its distribution partner, Yimai Technology International Company. The RHA Platinum MD will further strengthen the value proposition allowing doctors to visualize choroidal and retinal vasculature non-invasively. The RHA Platinum MD has global market potential of more than 100,000 Ophthalmologists.

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SOURCE Annidis Corporation

Gerald Slemko, Chairman, Annidis Corporation, 613 596 1800, [email protected]

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