Scott Koller
Analyst · Tom Pierce with Ben Clements
Thanks Darin. We continue to diversify our pipeline and advance our award-winning technology offerings as demonstrated by major new wins in 2013. Earlier in the year, we were selected by Chester’s Chicken an international food service provider to deploy digital signage solutions to its new location. This customer is currently marketing our solutions to more than 2000 of its existing franchise locations. Moving from static to digital menu boards was a key initiative for this client. After an extensive competitive review process, Wireless Ronin was selected because of our full service in end-to-end platform as well as our strong track record of success in the food service segment. Our ability to integrate consistent corporate brand messaging and dynamic content across the complex network communications and around the globe clearly differentiates from the competition. We have been working closely with this customer’s Regional Sales Managers to educate them on how digital signage offerings can drive sales. We look forward to working closely with their team as they deploy our digital menu solutions in other franchise locations. The Chester’s digital signage offering was officially launched by corporate to their locations in February of this year and I’m happy to report that adoption consist the efficient ones has exceeded our expectations. Another major win in 2013 was with Indian Motorcycle of Polaris Industries Company. Today, we have received orders for 105 Indian dealerships with plans for additional orders as the dealer network expand. We worked closely with Indian team to create a truly interactive in-store customer experience that matches the ease, functionality and interactivity of the Indians existing media asset. This solution comprise individual dealerships the flexibility to display local pricing and other custom information on digital signage and mobile devices while maintaining corporate level control of the primary branding and advertising messages in real-time. This win reflects Indian Motorcycle’s confidence in our uniquely powerful digital marketing technology. In the highly competitive motorsports market, our solution differentiate our customers offering and drive measurable ROI. We look forward to continue working with Indian through their nationwide rollout. The Polaris relationship built upon a 20-year history of success with the automotive industry including our deployments to hundreds of Chrysler, Fiat, Ford and Nissan dealerships across North America. Last month, we received an initial purchase order to deploy our digital media solutions in selected eateries in Macy’s Department Stores. Our solution will feature promotional board and three digital menu boards. As part of the agreement, we will provide a full end-to-end solution including RoninCast, large format displays, media players, content engineering, installation and ongoing hosting as well as additional support services. Like Chester’s we were selected by Macy’s because of our extensive experience in the food service industry as well as our industry leading solutions that have a proven track record for helping companies improve and streamline communications. Our solutions will help simplify pricing updates as well as streamline food and retail promotions. Macy’s plans to deploy digital menu boards as they remodel their eateries across the country. This new win is another example of our platform’s ability to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of messaging for our customers. We believe this is a great opportunity for Wireless Ronin and we are thrilled to be working with this highly regarded national retailer as they deploy our digital solutions across their stores. Another major win we recently secured was the Frank Mayer and Associates, a leader in the creative design and manufacturing of branded in-store merchandising and displays. As part of the agreement, we will provide digital marketing solutions for Frank Mayer’s client a leading North American heavy and medium-duty truck manufacturer with nearly 800 locations in North America. Frank Mayer selected us for this major project because of our extensive experience in the automotive industry with companies like Chrysler, Fiat, and Nissan. From a corporate level, the truck manufacturer wanted to standardize product information, increase communication, capture leads, and provide relevant analytics to its dealers, all while allowing the flexibility of dealership specific promotions and offers. This new win is a direct result of our leading digital marketing solutions that have proven effective in improving messaging, branding and marketing responsiveness across nationwide dealership networks. Our vast experience in the auto industry made us the clear choice in this competitive process, as our solutions are able to vastly improve the in-store customer experience, and ultimately, drives sales. Last April, we formed a strategic partnership with Delphi Display Solutions that extended the sales reach of RoninCast in the QSR segment. This important partnership allows us to focus our resources on our growing pipeline of opportunities in the automotive, retail and other food service markets. Delphi has an extensive amount of vertical expertise, products and services which coupled with RoninCast provides an incredible value to respective QSR customers. The partnership continues to gain momentum, as several national and international Delphi clients are currently piloting and looking to adopt an integrated digital signage solution. Based on the strong customer responsive of our combined solution as well as Delphi’s aggressive marketing initiatives and expanding sales pipeline, we are confident that there will be successful and further penetrating to grow in QSR and gas pump topper markets. It is important to recognize that Delphi chose to partner with us because of the robust capabilities of our well-architected RoninCast platform. During 2013, we released 4.2 of our platform, which expands its functionality, providing seamless communication between screens and mobile devices to deliver content to adjacent screens. These advancements, set our digital marketing solutions apart from the competition paving way for broader used by existing customers and generating new customer wins as the market continues its steady progression toward adopting digital marketing solutions. Wireless Ronin’s Technology and top leadership is regularly recognized by the digital signage industry. This is reflected by the major industry awards we have won over the years. Earlier this year, RoninCast 4.2 won the 2014 DIGI Award for Best New Content Management System. The DIGI Awards recognize the leading software and service providers, resellers, and integrators in the digital signage industry. We are honored to receive this prestigious Award, which reflects the continued advancements of our RoninCast platform. We remain committed to improving our software and digital marketing solutions to provide our customers with the most innovative, engaging and dynamic content. Additionally, we routinely received recognition by industry analyst and journals for our top leadership in this space. Most recently our White Paper entitled Success Starts with Strategy, A 5-Step Guide to Develop Your In-Store Digital Content Strategy was picked up by a low respective publication DigitalSignageToday.com. Now, I would like to add some color on our announcement this morning regarding Broadcast International. This merger combines the exceptional strengths of two of the industry’s leading technology innovators. As we have communicated previously, we have spent the last two years analyzing a range of strategic opportunities all aimed toward accelerating our growth, maximizing our technology and building shareholder value calling an extensive review and due-diligence process, we believe that merging was the right decision that will allows us to capitalize on the tremendous customer technology and cost synergies of the combined company. Broadcast’s award-winning Managed Media Services or MMS platform is highly scalable multi-channel solution that allows global enterprises to centrally manage and deploy digital media assets, including signage, posters, video, and music. MMS leverages Broadcast’s patented CodecSys software, CodecSys is a breakthrough, multi-codec video compression technology that reduces bandwidth requirements and provides unprecedented performance benefits. CodecSys optimizes content delivery for Broadcast Digital Signage Solutions by providing the end user high quality video content with minimal bandwidth. At just been 10 years and close to $40 million, CodecSys is steadily changing the paradigm of the compression industry by eliminating technological obsolescence by flashing bandwidth need, CodecSys enables a new generation of rich media application offers unprecedented price and performance benefits. CodecSys provides Wireless Ronin a strong competitive advantage and also opens up attractive licensing opportunities and revenue streams for the combined company. In addition to CodecSys, Broadcast licenses a range of other point solutions including its Messaging and Music On Hold or MMOH technology. This proprietary technology allows companies to customize on-hold music as well as broadcast promotions and important information to its customers. Both CodecSys and MMOH as well as other Broadcast products will provide tremendous cost selling and upselling opportunities across our combined customer base. Adding Broadcast’s technology to our award-winning RoninCast software, creates the most comprehensive, synergistic offering in the digital signage industry. This merger also gives us greater scale which continues to be a critical factor in the highly fragmented digital signage industry. Broadcast enhances our market scope through its deep experience deploying and managing large-scale digital signage solutions, on the other hand, Wireless Ronin brings to the table prudent omnichannel marketing capabilities, which can be sold into Broadcast’s customer base and sales pipeline along with other extended solutions and services. The merger will also strengthen our Board of Directors with the addition of Broadcast Director, Don Harris. He will bring more than 20 years of experience in the IT services and telecommunications industries. Don is currently President of 1162 Management, a private equity firm. He previously served as Chairman, CEO and President of UbiquiTel, a leading provider of digital wireless personal communications services and NASDAQ-listed company before it was acquired for $1.3 billion by Sprint in 2006. He was also a President of Comcast Cellular Communications calling various senior management positions with Comcast and PacTel. We believe Don’s extensive industry knowledge and experiences will be of a tremendous value to the combined company. All together, we expect the merger to provide valuable synergies and competitive advantages in terms of business development, geographical footprint and platform technology to more effectively capitalize on the multi-billion dollar market opportunity in digital marketing and signage. Importantly, we believe the merger presents near and long-term potential to create meaningful value for our shareholders and client base. Now with that, we’re ready to open the call for your questions. Operator, please provide the appropriate instructions.