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PORTA COMMUNICATIONS PLC

(the "Group" or "Porta")

Interim figures to the six months ended 30 June 2013

Porta Communications plc, the AIM quoted international marketing and communications business is pleased to announce its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2013.

Financial Highlights

Operational Highlights

· Increase in revenue by more than 5 times

· Maiden headline EBITDA for the Group

· Significant international expansion in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia

· Additional bolt-on acquisitions to enhance earnings growth

· Strong client wins across the whole Group

· Record year for Newgate Threadneedle

· Group well positioned for significant growth in profitability

¹ Headline EBITDA excludes start-up losses, acquisitions and restructuring costs, exceptional legal and professional costs and share based payments

Commenting on the results, David Wright, Chief Executive Officer of Porta, said:

"The Group made strong progress in the first six months of the year, with a significant improvement over the comparable period in 2012. Revenue generated in the six months to 30 June 2012 was higher than for the whole of the financial year ended 31 December 2012 and the Board remains confident of the Group's prospects for the second half of the year."

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The rapid growth of Porta Communications plc ("Porta") has continued in the first half to June 2013. Revenue at £8.48M is over 5 times the level of the comparable period and has already surpassed the full year contribution for 2012 while gross profit is more than 2.5 times higher. More importantly the Group has shown a positive EBITDA before exceptional and existing start-up costs, for the first time since its formation. These one-off costs are not expected to recur in 2014.

Although the Group has grown predominantly through start-up businesses since its inception, it has taken less than two years to develop a well-established international marketing and communications Group operating under strong recognised brands, in particular Newgate Communications. Furthermore with the openings of our new ventures in Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong and more in the pipeline, the Group now has a comprehensive international network with a strong base of business that will deliver continued growth in the future.

Newgate Communications London, the Group's first major start-up has enjoyed a strong first half, with a number of new business wins. This company is now poised to make consistent profits on a month by month basis, with a strong contribution expected in 2014.

Newgate Threadneedle has also performed well and remains the number one ranked adviser to AIM companies in the latest industry rankings. This positioning has been further strengthened through winning a number of IPO mandates which have successfully raised funds and consequently performed well as a listed company. This is a trend that has continued into the second half, to the extent that the company is heading for a record year. In addition, Newgate Threadneedle has been voted Best Financial PR adviser at the UK Stock Market Awards 2013 and continues to grow its client base of retained clients.

The Group needs to build on this success at Newgate Threadneedle so following the recruitment of top quality executives from a global competitor in March and April, we have created a strong diverse financial PR practice that now has a client list covering FTSE 100, 250 and AIM companies and the capacity to grow rapidly.

The start-up and development of Newgate Communications in Australia towards the end of the first half of the financial year was more successful than we anticipated, with approximately 30 people joining the new company. This group is now operating from 4 offices, Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra and Brisbane. The Australian venture has made a positive start and should make a strong contribution to Porta profits in 2014.

Newgate Communications Hong Kong has won several client mandates despite significant competitive pressure. The total number of clients is now 15. We expect the unit to move into profit in 2014.

The Group's Newgate Communications division in Singapore consists of, what the Board believes to be, an extremely high quality management team. Our Singapore team have already won some major mandates and they currently have a number of proposals with prospective clients. The total number of clients is now 9.

On the advertising side TTMV the creative media agency in Tunbridge Wells, formed out of the merger of WFCA and 20-20 Media Vision, has had an excellent first half. Although there has been some recent churn in clients at TTMV, the successful new business drive should ensure a similar performance to the first half in the second six months.

21:12 Communications the financial and charities agency, and it's studio 24-7 Studios started in January and is not expected to break into profits until the fourth quarter but the quality of recent new business suggest a much more balanced performance next year.

The Group is continuing to expand its international reach and there are a number of new ventures in the pipeline with plans to open Newgate offices in Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Beijing and Shanghai. Further down the line the Group is looking to strengthen its Newgate operation in Germany, as well as a possible launch in Paris. A couple of potential acquisitions in both the advertising and public relations areas are currently being reviewed.

With the Group becoming increasingly more established, the second half will see a considerably better performance than in the first six months. Given the expected exit run rate of revenues for the second half it is highly likely that the Group will continue to experience strong growth in 2014.

David Wright

Chief Executive

Condensed Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income

The accompanying notes are an integral part of this condensed consolidated interim financial report.

Condensed Consolidated Statement of Financial Position

The accompanying notes are an integral part of this condensed consolidated interim financial report.

Condensed Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows

The accompanying notes are an integral part of this condensed consolidated interim financial report.

The accompanying notes are an integral part of this condensed consolidated interim financial report.

The accompanying notes are an integral part of this condensed consolidated interim financial report.

Notes to the Condensed Consolidated Interim Financial Report

1. Corporate information

The interim condensed consolidated financial statements of Porta Communications Plc and its subsidiaries (collectively, the Group) for the six months period ended 30 June 2013 were authorised for issue in accordance with a resolution of the directors on 27 September 2013.

Porta Communications Plc ('the Company') is a public company domiciled in the United Kingdom whose shares are publicly traded on Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange. The Group is primarily involved in providing communication, advertising and marketing services.

2. Basis of preparation

 (a) Statement of compliance

The condensed consolidated interim financial report for the six months period ended on 30 June 2013 has been prepared in accordance IAS 34 Interim Financial Reporting. Selected explanatory notes are included to explain events and transactions that are significant to an understanding of the changes in financial position and performance of the Group since the last annual consolidated financial statements as at and for the year ended 31 December 2012. This condensed consolidated interim financial report does not include all of the information required for full annual financial statements prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards as adopted by the European Union.

The financial information presented herein does not constitute full statutory accounts under section 434 of the Companies Act 2006. This condensed consolidated financial report is unaudited. The financial information in respect of the year ended 31 December 2012 has been extracted from the consolidated statutory accounts of the Company for that period have been delivered to the Register of Companies. The Group's Independent Auditor's report on those accounts was unqualified, did not include references to any matters to which the auditor drew attention by way of emphasis without qualifying their report and did not contain a statement under section 498 (2) or 498 (3) of the Companies Act 2006.

(b) Judgements and estimates

Preparing the condensed consolidated interim financial report requires management to make judgements, estimates and assumptions that affect the application of accounting policies and the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, income and expenses. Actual results may differ from these estimates.

In preparing this condensed consolidated interim financial report, significant judgements made by Management in applying the Group's accounting policies and the key sources of estimation uncertainty were the same as those that applied to the consolidated financial statements as at and for the year ended 31 December 2012.

(c) Headline measures

The Group believes that reporting non-GAAP or headline adjusted measures provide a useful comparison of business performance and reflects the way the business is controlled. Accordingly headline measures of operating profit (EBITDA) and earnings per share exclude, where applicable, restructuring costs, start-up losses, amortisation of intangible assets, impairment charges, acquisition accounting adjustments, share option charges, and other exceptional costs. Non-headline gains or losses are items that, in option of directors, are required to be disclosed separately, by virtue of their size or incidence, to enable a full understanding of the Group's financial performance.

A reconciliation between statutory and headline operating profit is presented in Note 4. In addition to this a reconciliation between statutory and headline earnings per share is presented in Note 13. Headline measures in this report are not defined terms under IFRS and may not be compared with similarly titled measures reported by other companies.

3. Accounting policies

The accounting policies applied are consistent with those of the annual financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2012, as described in those annual financial statements.

There are no new IFRSs or IFRICs that are effective for the first time for the interim period that would be expected to have a material impact on the Group.

4. Reconciliation of operating EBITDA to headline adjusted EBITDA

* For the purpose of the above analysis, start-up losses are defined as the net operating result in the period of entities which are originally started businesses. Such businesses so defined will cease being separately defined at the earlier of two years from the commencement of the activity or when the activities show evidence of becoming sustainably profitable.

5. Segmental reporting

Business segments

The Board considers that the Group has a single business segment which delivers international communications, advertising and marketing services. The revenue, expenditure and result reported in the Statement of Comprehensive Income and the assets and liabilities reported in the Statement of Financial Position all relate to this single segment. All revenue in the period arose from sales within Europe.

Geographical segments

The analysis of results and assets by geographic region, based on the location of operating company, is as follows:

Sales to customers based in the UK amounted to 75% of Group revenues. No other individual country accounted for more than 10% of Group revenues

6. Acquisition of subsidiaries and associates

Acquisition of Cauldron Consulting Limited

On 1 March 2013, the Group acquired certain assets, including key staff and contracts, of Cauldron Consulting Limited in a loan note and contingent consideration deal. The consideration was satisfied by the initial payment of £200,000 in the loan notes and £100,000 of contingent consideration subject to future performance conditions.

The transferred Cauldron staff and client base has been incorporated within the marketing and advertising segment of the business.

The Cauldron client base contributed £76,000 to revenue during the six months to 30 June 2013.

Consideration transferred

The following table summarises the acquisition-date fair value of each major class of consideration transferred.

Contingent consideration

The Group has agreed to pay the seller an additional amount of up to £550,000 cash, dependent on the revenue derived from the existing customers of the business and any new customers of the business introduced by the seller in respect of the period commencing from the date of acquisition and ending on 1 March 2014. The amount of contingent consideration is reduced on a pound for pound basis to the extent that the relevant revenue is less than £200,000. Management has assessed that contingent consideration payable should not exceed £100,000. Management applied discounting rate of 15.1% in assessing future cash flow predictions.

Identifiable assets acquired and liabilities assumed

The following table summarises the recognised amounts of assets and liabilities assumed at the acquisition date.

The fair value of identifiable assets has been determined provisionally and may be subject to adjustment during the following six month period.

Goodwill

Goodwill arising from the transaction has been recognised as follows:

The goodwill is attributable mainly to the skills and knowledge of the stuff acquired and the synergies expected to be achieved incorporating the customer list and staff members into the existing business.

Acquisition of Summit Marketing Services Limited

On 1 June 2013, the Group through its wholly owned subsidiary Newgate Media Holding Limited, acquired 100% share capital and certain assets, including key staff and contracts, of Summit Marketing Services Limited, a marketing and advertising agency domiciled in the UK. The initial consideration was satisfied by the payment of £150,000 in cash and up to £350,000 of contingent consideration subject to future performance conditions.

At the time of interim reporting and up to the date this report has been approved, Summit acquisition accounting not yet been finalised.

The provisional fair value of net assets at the acquisition date is as follows:

 The fair value of consideration paid is as follows: Fair Value,

£

Cash consideration paid 150,000

Contingent consideration 350,000

Total consideration payable 500,000

As part of the consideration for the acquisition of Summit Marketing Services Limited (further 'Summit') the contingent consideration is payable. The amount to be paid is dependent on the profits earned by Summit in the year to 31 December 2014.

The fair value of this consideration at the acquisition date and at the period ended on 30 June 2013 was £150,000. The maximum amount of deferred contingent consideration payable is £350,000. Any changes to the fair value of deferred contingent consideration in the future will be recognised in the income statement.

7. Income tax expense

Income tax credit is recognised based on management's best estimate of the weighted average annual income tax rate expected for the full financial year applied to the pre-tax income of the interim period. The Group's consolidated effective tax rate in respect of continuing operations for the six months ended 30 June 2013 was 8% (six months ended 30 June 2012: 8%, year ended 31 December 2011: 8%). This effective tax rate is consistent with the effective tax rate for the year ended 31 December 2012. The net tax credit for the period consists of current tax expense of £79,030 and a deferred tax credit of £146,031.

8. Property, plant and equipment

Acquisitions and disposals

During the six months ended 30 June 2013, the Group acquired assets with a cost of £32,792 (six months to 30 June 2012: £22,032).

No assets were disposed of during the six months ended 30 June 2012.

9. Capital and Reserves

Issues of ordinary shares

On 28 February 2013, the Company announced that it had conditionally raised £4.0m (before expenses) by way of a placing of 40,000,000 new ordinary shares at a price of 10 pence per ordinary share of 10 pence each with certain institutional and other investors. The purpose of the Placing was to raise funds to be used by the Company to implement the next phase of its acquisition strategy and to fund the working capital requirements of the Group by strengthening the statement of financial position and thereby improving the ability of the Group to develop its income stream. The Placing was conditional upon the Company obtaining approval from shareholders to disapply pre-emption rights and to grant the Directors authority to allot the Placing Shares. Approval was obtained at a General Meeting held on 18 March 2013 where all resolutions were duly passed and subsequently the 40,000,000 new shares have been allotted.

Subsequent to the General Meeting held on 18 March 2013, the Company has allotted 5,000,000 further ordinary shares of 10 pence following the conversion of the convertible loan of £500,000 by Hawk Investment Holdings Limited at a price of 10 pence per share.

The movement in Ordinary shares for the year reconciles as follows:

Deferred Shares

There has been no change in the number of, or rights relating to, the Deferred shares during the six months to 30 June 2013.

Allotted, called up and fully paid

10. Share-based payments

At 30 June 2013, the Group has the following share-based payment arrangements:

Enterprise Management Incentive option scheme (equity-settled)

On 18 May 2012, the Company granted options over an aggregate of 3,950,000 ordinary shares to certain employees and consultants of the Group, all with an exercise price of 10p per share. This grant included options over 1,200,000 ordinary shares to each of David Wright, Chief Executive of the Company, and Keith Springall, former Finance Director of the Company (the 'Directors').

The options will vest in three equal tranches on the first, second, and third anniversary of the grant of the options, and will expire on the tenth anniversary of the grant. In addition, the options granted to the Directors may not be exercised if the mid-market share price of the Company is equal to or less than 20p.

The fair value of services received in return for the share options granted is based on the fair value of share options granted, measured using the Black-Scholes model.

The following inputs were used in the measurement of the fair values at grant date of the share-based payment plans.

Warrants

There have been no movement in the number or conditions of warrants outstanding between 31 December 2012 and 30 June 2013.

New share option issued during the six months period ended on 30 June 2013

On 26 June 2013 the Company granted David Wright, the option holder and Chief Executive Officer of the Group, an Option to acquire 2,948,679 Shares at an exercise price of £0.20 per Share. The Option is granted as an Enterprise Management Investment Option (further "EMI") in accordance with the provisions of the EMI Code. The Option shall not be exercisable before the Date of Grant or if the earnings per share targets specified in the EMI agreement have not been satisfied. Subject to the EMI agreement, the share options will vest as follows:

1) 50% of the Shares under Option on the first anniversary of the Date of Grant, provided the Company's adjusted earnings per share for the financial year ended 31 December 2013 equals or exceeds £0.006; and

2) 50% of the Shares under Option on the second anniversary of the Date of Grant, provided the Company's adjusted earnings per share for the financial year ended 31 December 2014 equals or exceeds £0.023,

There has been no charge in the profit and loss accounts as of 30 June 2013 with regard to this newly issued share option plan.

11. Loans and Borrowings

Subsequent to the General Meeting held on 18 March 2013, the Company allotted 5,000,000 ordinary shares of 10 pence following the conversion of the convertible loan of £500,000 by Hawk Investment Holdings Limited at a price of 10 pence per share.

On 8 March 2013 the Company announced that it had restructured the loans of £1,250,000 and £750,000 made by Hawk Investment Holdings Limited ("Hawk"), a company beneficially owned by Bob Morton (Non-Executive Chairman) and his wife, to the Company, details of which are included below, by entering into a discounted bond for the sum of £2,000,000 with Hawk (the "Bond"). The Bond has a redemption date of 26 February 2016. The amount to be redeemed on this date will be £2,862,000, which is equivalent to the current financing rates of the £1,250,000 and £750,000 loans. At its request, the Company will be able to redeem the Bond early at a discount calculated on the date of redemption. As well as having the opportunity to repay the Bond at a discount, the Bond will help reduce the Company's monthly interest payments, as the redemption premium is only payable on the date of redemption.

In addition, it has been agreed with Hawk that the two loan agreements entered into by Hawk and WFCA Limited ("WFCA"), a subsidiary of Porta, under which WFCA borrowed £450,000 in aggregate be refinanced as one new loan of £450,000, which is to be repaid on or before 5 March 2014. The interest rate on the new loan is the same as the rate of interest charged on the two individual loans.

This note provides information about the contractual terms of the Group's interest-bearing loans and borrowings, which are measured at amortised cost. For more information about the Group's exposure to interest rate, foreign currency and liquidity risk arising from these loans and borrowings, see note 8.

The secured bank loan is secured over all assets trade debtors and other assets of WFCA Limited and its two subsidiaries. The related party loans and convertible loan are secured over all current and future assets of all companies within the Group.

Terms and debt repayment schedule

12. Intangible assets and goodwill

Acquisition in period - acquired with subsidiary 184,066 150,000 35,000 - 369,066

Other additions in the period - - - 62,316 62,316

As described in note 5, during the six month period ended 30 June 2013 the Group acquired certain assets, including key staff and contracts, of Cauldron Consulting Limited and Summit Marketing Services Limited. The fair values of identifiable assets and liabilities have been determined provisionally and may be subject to adjustment during the following 12 month period.

No cash generating units ('CGUs') were tested for impairment because there were no impairment indicators at 30 June 2013 for CGUs to which goodwill has been allocated.

13. Earnings/(loss) per share

The loss per share has been calculated using the weighted average number of shares in issue during the relevant financial year. The weighted number of equity shares in issue and the loss after tax attributable to ordinary shareholders, used in these calculations are as follows:

The number of shares used in the 30 June 2011 calculation has been restated for the 1 for 100 share consolidation which occurred on 7 November 2011.

No share options or warrants outstanding at 30 June 2013, 30 June 2012, or 31 December 2012 were dilutive and all such potential ordinary shares are therefore excluded from the weighted average number of ordinary shares for the purposes of calculating diluted earnings per share. Details of share options and warrants outstanding are given in note 10.

14. Group Composition

During the six month period to 30 June 2013, the Group formed the following entities which had commenced trading by 30 June 2013:

15. Related party transactions

Key management personnel

During the six months to 30 June 2013, the Company has granted share-based payment awards to executive director, David Wright (Chief Executive), the details of which are disclosed in note 10.

The nature and amounts of other related party transactions are consistent with those reported in the Group's consolidated statutory accounts for the year ended 31 December 2012.

The loans made by Hawk described in paragraph 11 above were also related party transactions.

16. Subsequent events

On 9 September 2013, the Group obtained £1,200,000 of loan facility to assist the Group with its acquisition plans and for general working capital purposes. The facility is repayable on or before 9 September 2014 with an interest payment of 12%.

17. Publication

A copy of this report is available from the Company's website at www.portacommunications.plc.uk and available in hard copy on application to the Company's offices.