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Feel more: Buy more. Results Presentation | Twelve months ended 31 December 2016 BrainJuicer Group PLC Feel more: Buy more system1agency.com @system1agency Leading Founded in 1999 exponent of behavioural Floated on AIM in December 2006 at


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Results Presentation | Twelve months ended 31 December 2016 BrainJuicer Group PLC

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2 BrainJuicer Group PLC

Leading exponent

  • f behavioural

economics and system-1 thinking in marketing and research

Founded in 1999 Floated on AIM in December 2006 at £1.08 per share Track record of profitable organic growth and strong cash flow Operating in 10 countries 150 employees 200 large (mainly consumer goods) clients

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3 BrainJuicer Group PLC

Top

  • p-line returned

to growth after two slower years

Revenue up 24% (15% in constant currency) Gross profit up 27% (15% in constant currency) Operating profit up 37% Profit before tax up 38% Profit after tax up 31% Diluted EPS up 33% Cash inflow before financing £6.34m (160% of PAT) Cash returned to shareholders: £5.25m Cash balance: £7.75m and no debt Changing financial year end to March 2017

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Gross profit (£m) main top-line performance indicator

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Profit before tax (£m)

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4 BrainJuicer Group PLC

Growth driven by core products, particularly Ad Testing and Brand Tracking

Most of the business from our core 4 products Building brands: Ad Testing, Brand Tracking Innovation: Predictive Markets, Concept Testing Building brands Ad Testing and Brand Tracking growing strongly - in part due to recently introduced Fame | Feeling | Fluency approach to brand building. Leading to more sole supplier status and regular repeat usage. Innovation Predictive Markets and Concept Testing growing, albeit at a slower pace, in part due to pricing pressure. Introducing lower cost automated versions of Predictive Markets to compensate. Product mix – gross profit £m

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Ad Testing & Brand Tracking Predictive Markets Concept Testing Other

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5 BrainJuicer Group PLC

US growing well, and Continental Europe bounced back. UK down a little.

Continental Europe Asia Brazil UK US Gross profit Operating profit US £10.89m + 40% £6.29m + 42% UK £6.23m

  • 7%

£3.68m

  • 19%

Continental Europe £5.13m + 64% £3.07m + 89% Asia £1.50m

  • %

£0.72m + 28% Brazil £1.28m + 12% £0.63m + 1% Australia £0.51m £0.33m Total Research £25.53m + 26% £14.72m + 25% System1 Ad Agency £0.11m £(0.31)m Total £25.64m + 27% £14.42m + 23% Central Costs £(8.19)m + 14% Operating profit £6.23m + 37%

Gross profit split

Australia

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6 BrainJuicer Group PLC

Cost increase in large part due to increase in bonus accrual

Modest underlying cost increase Cost growth pre-bonus well below gross profit growth Capacity to scale several times current size in long term without CAPEX and without costs growing as much as gross profit Higher effective tax rate 36% in 2016 vs 33% in 2015, due to higher profits from US and Continental Europe

2016 2015 Growth Underlying overheads £16.05m £15.12m 6% Bonus £2.40m £0.06m System1 Advertising Agency £0.41m

  • Share-based payments

£0.55m £0.20m One-off costs

  • £0.32m

Total overheads £19.41m £15.70m 24%

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7 BrainJuicer Group PLC

Strong cash flow and returning it to shareholders

Cash Flow

High cash conversion Pre-financing cash flow £6.34m (160% of profit after tax) Finished the period with £7.75m cash and no debt Plus £2m unused committed facility

Returns to shareholders

Returned £5.25m to shareholders in the year Dividends £2.05m Share buy-backs £3.20m 2016 final dividend will be declared after announcement of 15 month results in June 2017

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8 BrainJuicer Group PLC

Made good progress

  • n 2016 objectives

Continue momentum in US Grow in other regions as in US Grow gross profit by more than headcount Major on core products Set up System1 Advertising Agency Experiment with Zappistore

Outlook … more of the same 2017/18 objectives are similar

(with less emphasis on Zappistore)

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Results Presentation | twelve months ended 31 December 2016 BrainJuicer Group PLC

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