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WiseTech Global Ltd (WTCHF) Acquires South Korean Solutions Provider, Ready Korea

2019-12-09 17:53 ET - News Release

Sydney, Australia, Dec 10, 2019 - (ABN Newswire) - Global logistics solutions group, (ASX:WTC) (FRA:17W) (OTCMKTS:WTCHF), today announced the acquisition of Ready Korea, a leading customs, bonded warehouse and trade compliance solutions provider in South Korea.

Headquartered in Seoul, Ready Korea offers a cross-border compliance solution, which facilitates the lodgement of electronic transactions to the Korean Customs Service, including customs brokerage and refunds, and Free Trade Agreement verifications, along with bonded warehouse management. Ready Korea also provides a trade administration solution to facilitate the generation and submission of electronic import/export documentation. Customers of Ready Korea include FedEx, Bayer Korea, Korea 3M Corporation, Samsung, Siemens, Johnson & Johnson, and many other organisations.

WiseTech Global Founder and CEO, Richard White, said, "As the 8th largest export market and 10th largest import market1 in the world, South Korea plays a key role in Asia's, and the world's, supply chains. Bringing Ready Korea's regional customs and trade management expertise into the group now expands our innovation and development capabilities in this important region as we continue to build-out our global customs footprint. This is a further step in strengthening our international reach deeper across Asia and together we will develop even more productive and valuable cross-border logistics solutions for our regional and global customers."

For Ready Korea, the net purchase price comprises ~$13.2m upfront, with a further multi-year earn-out potential of up to ~$7.0m related to business and product integration, customs development, customer conversion and financial performance2. With Ready Korea's adjusted CY18 annual revenue and EBITDA of ~$7.3m and ~$1.6m3 respectively, this transaction, while of strategic value, is not material to the WiseTech Global group. Ready Korea is expected to be consolidated into WiseTech Global accounts from 31 December 2019.

Remaining under the leadership of Managing Director, Tom Kim, Ready Korea's operations will be integrated within the WiseTech Global group and Ready Korea will continue to deliver its customs and trade management solutions directly to its own customers, along with CargoWise over time.

This transaction follows WiseTech's other recent logistics solutions acquisitions in Argentina, Australasia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, North America, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, the UK and Uruguay, and is in line with WiseTech Global's clearly stated strategy of accelerating long-term organic growth through targeted, valuable geographic foothold and technology adjacency acquisitions.

About Ready Korea

Founded in 1989, Ready Korea is a leading customs, bonded warehouse management and trade compliance solutions provider in South Korea, with customers including FedEx, Bayer Korea, Korea 3M Corporation, Samsung, Siemens, Johnson & Johnson, and many other logistics providers and organisations. Ready Korea is an official partner of the Korean Customs Brokers Association.

Headquartered in Seoul, Ready Korea has a team of over 60 people, providing customs, trade and technical expertise along with software development capabilities.

For more information on Ready Korea visit:
https://www.readykorea.co.kr


About WiseTech Global Ltd:

WiseTech Global Ltd (ASX:WTC) is a leading developer and provider of software solutions to the logistics execution industry globally. Our customers include 12,000 of the world's logistics companies across 130 countries, including 38 of the top 50 global third party logistics providers and all 25 of the 25 largest global freight forwarders worldwide. Our flagship product, CargoWise One, forms an integral link in the global supply chain and executes over 54 billion data transactions annually. At WiseTech, we are relentless about innovation, adding more than 3,000 product enhancements to our global platform in the past five years while bringing meaningful continual improvement to the world's supply chains. Our breakthrough software solutions are renowned for their powerful productivity, extensive functionality, comprehensive integration, deep compliance capabilities, and truly global reach.

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