Blom Group News Feed

2008-07-15

Blom ASA — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Blom signs 12-year agreement with American company

Blom has signed an agreement with North American company ImageTree Corporation, giving ImageTree the rights to use Blom’s patented technology for airborne laser in forestland management. The agreement has a 12-year duration. – The agreement further solidifies our position on the American market, says Jan Bistrøm, Managing Director of Blom Kartta OY (Blom’s subsidiary in Finland).

ImageTree is a North American company specializing in assessment of forest assets. Under the agreement ImageTree will get the rights to use Blom’s patented technology (Lidar) in forestland management in North America. The agreement will be in effect for a period of 12 years.

– This agreement further strengthens Blom’s position on the American market. What is more, our customers in Europe and the rest of the world will benefit from the valuable build-up of competence that will be the certain result of a long-term partnership with a company such as ImageTree, Mr. Bistrøm states.

Airborne laser technology is employed to aerially collect topographical data, and will be a central part of the technological platform that forms the basis of ImageTree’s services. The services comprise amongst other things accurate and cost effective analysis of forest volumes, in addition to assessment of carbon sequestration. ImageTree provides these services to forest owners, investment companies, and companies compiling statistics on biomass.

– With this agreement we are solidifying a long-lasting relationship with a true leader in topographical data collection and geographical data processing. Blom’s laser technology will ensure that we can provide our customers with the best possible path to achieving better environmental practises, improved lifecycle management, and increased financial performance, says Managing Director Mark Redlus of ImageTree.

For more information please contact:

CFO Jan Erik Braathen, +47 22 13 19 24 or mobile phone +47 95 25 26 85

2008-07-14_produktudviklere søges

Blom ASA — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Udviklingsopgaver inden for geodata

BlomInfo A/S er et af Europas førende firmaer indenfor kortlægning. Vi har travlt og søger derfor nye medarbejdere, som er interesserede i at indgå i en spændende arbejdsplads med såvel danske som internationale projekter.

Vores projektledergruppe, der består af et ungt team af ingeniører, landinspektører, geografer og geologer, har brug for en ingeniør, landinspektør eller lignende, som skal indgå i udviklingsopgaver samt eventuelt faglig support og kundekontakt. Vi udvikler og fremstiller mange slags digitale geodataprodukter, herunder 3D bymodeller, laserscanningsmodeller, avancerede visualiseringer, luftbårne billedkoncepter m.m.. Der arbejdes på såvel danske som udenlandske opgaver.

Vi forestiller os, at den nye medarbejder skal hjælpe os med produktudvikling, softwareudvikling, optimering af teknologien og projektledelse. Vores softwareudvikling foregår bl.a. i .NET med brug af både Open Source og proprietære biblioteker. Vi arbejder med 3D visualiseringer med anvendelse af 3D Studio Max, MicroStation, SketchUp m.m.

Ansøgeren bør have kendskab til et eller flere af følgende områder: Softwareudvikling, MicroStation, 3D visualisering og eventuelt kortlægning/fotogrammetri. Gode sprogkundskaber vil være en fordel, fordi mange af vore opgaver er udenlandske og vore primære produktionsenheder ligger i Indonesien, Ukraine og Rumænien, hvor arbejdssproget er engelsk. Derudover er der dagligt et tæt samarbejde med Bloms selskaber i Norge, Sverige, Finland, England, Polen, Spanien, Italien og Tyskland. Det medfører et tæt samarbejde på tværs af mange miljøer og kulturer.

Vi anvender den nyeste teknologi indenfor produktion af geodata med brug af højteknologiske digitale kameraer, luftbåren laserscanning og avanceret software til efterbehandling og visualisering. Du vil indgå i projektledergruppen, som også medvirker med udvikling af nye produkter og markedsområder. Der vil være mulighed for at indgå med projektledelse i vore kortlægningsprojekter. Der vil desuden blive mulighed for rejser af kortere varighed bl.a. til vore afdelinger i Europa og fjernøsten.

Tiltrædelse snarest.

Kontakt: Søren Buch eller Asger Sigurd Petersen på telefon 70 200 226

Eller send en ansøgning til:

BlomInfo A/S

Masnedøgade 20

2100 København Ø

eller sb@blominfo.dk / asp@blominfo.dk

2008-07-09

Blom ASA — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:00:00 GMT

BLOM PRESENTATION

Blom held a presentation for investors today at 5 pm. The presentation gave an update on the Company's status.

The presentation can be downloaded here

2008-07-09_Kontrakt med Fødevareministeriet

Blom ASA — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:00:00 GMT

BlomInfo og Scankort indgår kontrakt med Ministeriet for Fødevarer, Landbrug og Fiskeri

BlomInfo A/S og Scankort A/S har i fællesskab vundet udbuddet om levering af digitale ortofotos til Ministeriet for Fødevarer, Landbrug og Fiskeri. De digitale ortofotos skal bl.a. anvendes i forbindelse med varetagelsen af ministeriets myndighedsopgaver, herunder administration af arealbaserede støtteordninger, hvor de enkelte markers beliggenhed og størrelse skal indtegnes på ortofotos af støtteansøgere (landmænd).

Kontrakten omfatter levering af sømløse digitale ortofotos dækkende hele Danmark, ca. 43.000 km2, i henholdsvis 2008 og i 2010 med mulighed for yderligere forlængelse. Endvidere forventes Konsortiet at skulle varetage printning af markkort, der skal udsendes til landmændene. Kontrakten indeholder desuden en række optioner som ministeriet kan bestille efter ønske og behov.

Grundlaget for leverancen er de landsdækkende digitale ortofotos i 20 cm opløsning, som BlomInfo og Scankort er gået sammen om at producere.

De to firmaer har udover kontrakten med Ministeriet for Fødevarer, Landbrug og Fiskeri allerede indgået aftaler med flere andre kunder om levering af landsdækkende digitale ortofotos i 2008. Desuden har mange kommuner taget positivt imod de nye digitale ortofotos i hhv. 20 cm for landområder og 10 cm i byområder – produkter der er i fuld overensstemmelse med ortofotospecifikationerne i Geoforums vejledning ”ORTO 2004”.

2008-06-19

Blom ASA — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

ANALYST DAY

Blom held an analyst presentation Wednesday 18 June 2008. The presentation can be downloaded

2008-06-13

Blom ASA — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

REPURCHASE OF SHARES

On 12 June 2008, Blom ASA purchased 15 000 of its own shares at an average price of NOK 44.07 per share. Blom now holds 711 200 of its own shares,
which is equivalent to 1.7% of the total number of shares outstanding.

Blom`s share buyback program, which will last until the annual general meeting in 2009 (30 June 2009 at the latest), covers purchases of up to 2.4 % of
shares outstanding (1 million shares).

This information is subject of the disclosure requirements acc. to §5-12 vphl (Norwegian Securities Trading Act).

For further information please contact the CFO Jan Erik Braathen on tel. +47 22 13 19 24.

2008_0612_10_aars_jubilaeum

Blom ASA — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

29. maj fejrede BlomInfo jubilæet med en reception på DAC (Dansk Arkitektur Center), et spændende foredrag om Havnen og en guidet sejltur i den sydlige del af Københavns Havn.

Rigtig mange kunder, forretningsforbindelser og venner af firmaet var med til at gøre dagen festlig. Det er vi meget glade for.

I forbindelse med jubilæet har vi lavet en oversigt over nogle af de mange tusind projekter BlomInfo har gennemført i de forgangne 10 år. Projekterne spænder fra traditionelle kortlægningsopgaver, konvertering af ledningsplaner for forsyningsvirksomheder, over sofwareudvikling, udenlandske konsulentopgaver til etablering af landsdækkende højdemodel, ortofotos og 3D bymodeller.

Jubilæumsskriftet kan downloades i PDF format her…

2008-10-06_Flere flybilleder på nettet

Blom ASA — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Nyoptagne, georefererede billeder fra Fyn i henholdsvis 10 og 20 cm pixels er nu tilgængelige på BlomInfos flyfotoserver http://2008.ortofotodanmark.dk/

Flere optagelser er på vej.

Tilføj linket http://2008.ortofotodanmark.dk/viewer/ til dine favoriter i Browseren og følg med efterhånden, som der kommer flere billeder på.

2008-06-09

Blom ASA — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

REPURCHASE OF SHARES

On 9 June 2008, Blom ASA purchased 15 000 of its own shares at an average price of NOK 46.90 per share. Blom now holds 686 200 of its own shares,
which is equivalent to 1.6% of the total number of shares outstanding.

Blom`s share buyback program, which will last until the annual general meeting in 2009 (30 June 2009 at the latest), covers purchases of up to 2.4 % of
shares outstanding (1 million shares).

This information is subject of the disclosure requirements acc. to §5-12 vphl (Norwegian Securities Trading Act).

For further information please contact the CFO Jan Erik Braathen on tel. +47 22 13 19 24.

2008-06-05

Blom ASA — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Blom increases cooperation with Microsoft

In 2006 Blom announced a 5-year agreement with Microsoft Corp. regarding use of Blom’s oblique image database for all cities with more than 50 000 inhabitants in 23 European countries, i.e. approximately 1 000 cities. These images can be viewed on Microsoft’s Live Search Maps site, http://maps.live.com.

The initial capturing of the database is in the final stage of completion. In order to ensure that the database is always updated, Blom will regularly capture images of the areas in the 23 countries. Furthermore, Blom has decided to expand the database of oblique images to 20 countries in the eastern part of Europe.

As part of Microsoft’s 5-year commitment, Microsoft will be consuming portions of the updated and additional imagery as it is made available by Blom. This will be formalized in an agreement between Microsoft and Blom.

Blom expects the delivery of updates and additional imagery to have a total value of NOK 200 million the next two years.

Blom is thrilled that Microsoft has decided to expand the extent of its cooperation.

Blom’s database is the largest uniform database of its kind. Blom believes the database could form the basis for future web-based solutions as well as future solutions within navigation and location based services to the fast growing market for mobile phones and other handheld wireless terminals.

Product and service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.

For further information please contact CEO Håkon Jacobsen on tel. +47 22 13 19 33 or CFO Jan Erik Braathen on tel. +47 22 13 19 24.

23-05-2008_Flyfoto 2008 i luften

Blom ASA — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

SE DE FØRSTE DIGITALE FLYBILLEDER ONLINE ALLEREDE I DAG

BlomInfo er i fuld gang med at producere landsdækkende ortofotos i 20 cm pixelopløsning og byortofotos i 10 cm pixel opløsning. Allerede nu er der mulighed for at se flyfotos af en række områder i Danmark. Som en ekstra unik mulighed kan brugerne straks får gavn af de nye optagelser ved at hente billederne via WMS. Det vil sige at alle meget nemt kan få adgang fra alle gængse desktop og webGIS allerede i dag.

LÆS MERE HER...

2008-05-15

Blom ASA — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

PURCHASE OF SHARES

Håkon Jacobsen, CEO Blom ASA, has today 15th of May 2008 purchased 20 000 Blom shares at an average price of NOK 50.75 per share. Jacobsen owns after the purchase a total of 20 000 Blom shares.

2008-05-13b

Blom ASA — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Laserscanning with Blom

Link to news article in the Norwegian daily newspaper FinansAvisen (in Norwegian):

Finansavisen

2008-05-13a

Blom ASA — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

Finding Cultural Monuments using Airborne Laserscanning

Link to article in Forskerforum, Norwegian trade magazine on reserach and higher education (in Norwegian):

Forskerforum

2008-05-05

Blom ASA — Sun, 04 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT

DISCLOSURE OF SHAREHOLDINGS

Pursuant to an exemption provided to Luxor Capital Group, LP by the Oslo Bors, Luxor Spectrum, LLC and Luxor Spectrum Offshore, Ltd., funds managed
by Luxor Capital Group, LP, purchased 6,000 shares and 208,000 shares, respectively, of Blom ASA after the close of trading on May 2, 2008 from
other accounts managed by Luxor Capital Group, LP. The purchasing funds did not own any shares of Blom ASA prior to the transactions, and following the transactions Luxor Spectrum, LLC and Luxor Spectrum Offshore, Ltd. owned 0.01% and 0.52%, respectively, of the shares of Blom ASA.

The total number of shares of Blom ASA held by Luxor Capital Group, LP did not change as a result of the transactions described above.

For further information, please contact Adam Miller at Luxor Capital Group, LP at +1 (212) 763- 8000.

2008-04-30

Blom ASA — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:00:00 GMT

REPURCHASE OF SHARES

On 29 April 2008, the annual general meeting gave the Board of Directors of Blom ASA a power of attorney to buy back up to 10% of the shares
outstanding in Blom ASA.

According to the power of attorney from the Board of Directors Blom ASA, Blom ASA has decided to continue its buyback program of up to one million shares.

Blom`s share buyback program, which will last until the annual general meeting in 2009 (30 June 2009 at the latest), covers purchases of up to 2.4 % of shares outstanding (1 million shares).

Blom now holds 467 200 of its own shares, which is equivalent to 1.1% of the total number of shares outstanding.This information is subject of the disclosure
requirements acc. to §5-12 vphl (Norwegian Securities Trading Act).

For further information please contact the CFO Jan Erik Braathen on tel. +47 22 13 19 24.

2008-04-29

Blom ASA — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:00:00 GMT

1Q 2008 RESULTS

Blom presented the 1st quarter 2008 results today at 08.30 am CET. The presentation will be webcast from 10.00 am. CET.

The Q1 2008 presentation can be downloaded here

The Q1 2008 Report can be downloaded here

Enter the link to view the WEBCAST

2008-04-29 (1)

Blom ASA — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:00:00 GMT

REPORT 1ST QUARTER 2008 - RESULTS ACCORDING TO PLAN

Blom started 2008 with higher than expected revenues and earnings. The company reports operating revenues of NOK 200 million for the 1st quarter, compared with NOK 137 million for the corresponding period last year, and an EBITDA result of NOK 29 million, compared with NOK 17 million for the 1st quarter of 2007.

This corresponds to an EBITDA margin of 14.7% for the period this year, compared with 12.8% for the 1st quarter last year. The comparable figures for 2007 are exclusive of the Scan Subsea business, which was demerged in 2007.

Revenue growth of 46% and an EBITDA improvement of 69% compared with the 1st quarter last year were achieved primarily through organic growth, based on
strong operations in the traditional areas in all countries, at the same time as our investments in databases and navigation started to show good results.

In the 1st quarter the company depreciated NOK 18 million and invested NOK 17 million in databases and advanced technology. NOK 25 million was used to purchase the company`s own shares. The equity ratio has remained stable at 55% since the start of 2008.

The company maintains its strong financial foundation for future growth with cash reserves of NOK 269 million and low net interest-bearing liabilities. The company possesses a high level of competence, unique databases and proprietary applications. The 1st quarter earnings show that the company`s focused efforts to build up unique databases and develop proprietary solutions for navigation and other location-based services for use on the Internet and in handheld mobile units are starting to bear fruit. Blom received strong feedback from the market that the company`s solutions provide a better user experience shortly after they were launched. The market for navigation and location-based services has shown strong growth in recent years, and this growth is expected to continue.

The report can be downloaded here

For further information please contact:

CEO, Mr. Håkon Jacobsen, on tel. +47 22 13 19 33 or

CFO Jan Erik Braathen on tel. +47 22 13 19 24.

2008-04-29 (2)

Blom ASA — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:00:00 GMT

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2007

Blom ASA held its Annual General Meeting 29th of April 2008 09:30 am. CET.

The minutes of the meeting can be downloaded here MINUTES OF MEETING

For further information please contact:

CEO, Mr. Håkon Jacobsen, on tel. +47 22 13 19 33 or
CFO Jan Erik Braathen on tel. +47 22 13 19 24.

2008-04-28

Blom ASA — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:00:00 GMT

PROXY REQUIRED FOR DISCLOSURE RE. ORDINARY GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Dirk Blaauw, Chairman of the Board of Blom ASA, has received proxy for a total of 2 746 669 shares, corresponding to 6.59 % of the share capital in Blom ASA.

Dirk Blaauw voting rights at the Annual General Meeting represents more than 5 % of the votes.