Coronavirus Update RNS16 Mar 2020 07:11
Westminster Group Plc (AIM: WSG), a leading supplier of managed services and technology-based security solutions worldwide, wishes to provide an update on the current effects of Coronavirus on the business
From the outset of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Westminster established contingency plans, processes and put policies in place to limit, as much as possible, any impact on its people, customers and operations. Thankfully, to date we have only suffered minor disruption to our travel and activities. Our West African airport operations have not yet suffered any downturn; indeed, passenger numbers continue to be at record levels. We continue to monitor the situation accordingly.
Westminster is a recognised provider of security and safety screening equipment and has previously supplied fever screening equipment during epidemics such as Ebola and Bird Flu, to various countries around the world but nothing on the scale we are now seeing. So far in 2020 we have dealt with over 500 enquiries from all over the world for fever detection and associated equipment, resulting in sales of approximately $720,000 USD, by comparison we had no such enquiries in 2019.
We are currently handling an average of 28 enquiries per day and our teams are working hard to support our customers in these difficult times particularly with the potential disruption to supply chains and demand exceeding our suppliers manufacturing capacity in certain items. Given the dynamic situation in respect of the response to the current Coronavirus pandemic it is difficult to forecast future demand however we consider that the supply of fever screening and associated equipment will represent a material element of our business during the current financial period.
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