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RNS Number : 9530OAccesso Technology Group PLC03 August 2026 3 August 2026 accesso® Technology Group plc("accesso" or the "Group") Half Year Trading Update and Notice of Results On track to deliver full year performance in line with guidance alongside strategic progress accesso Technology Group plc (AIM: ACSO), the premier technology solutions provider for leisure,entertainment, and cultural markets, today provides an update on trading for the six months ended 30 June 2026("H1 FY26"). Trading in H1 FY26 was resilient and in line with the Board's expectations, with encouraging commercialmomentum across the Group's growth initiatives and early strategic progress under the leadership of the Group'snew CEO. The Group has benefitted from cost efficiency measures implemented earlier in the year, while continuing to investselectively to drive future growth, including expanding its AI and payments capabilities. As part of its strategy, accesso is bringing its products together as a single, connected ecosystem - spanningticketing; food, beverage and retail; guest experience; and virtual queuing - underpinned by its paymentscapability, accessoPay, which is now live, with the first customers expected to begin transacting during August. Recent commercial activity has demonstrated a growing demand for this integrated offering. H1 has seen anincreasing number of multi-product deals sold within a single commercial relationship, with a developing pipelinealigned to a bundled offering. OutlookThe Board's outlook for FY26 remains unchanged, with anticipated full-year revenue of approximately $146m andCash EBITDA of approximately $20m. Consistent with the Group's typical pattern, trading is expected to beweighted to the second half of the year which captures the summer and Halloween seasons. As noted at the time of the full-year results, the Group's full-year expectations continue to include a number ofmilestone-based revenues from projects in the Middle East, principally in Saudi Arabia. Approximately $1.9m ofthis milestone revenue remains dependent on delivery in the second half of the year. The Board will provide afurther update alongside the Group's interim results. The Board also notes the separate announcement today regarding an IT security incident. Based on the workperformed to date, the Board currently assesses that there is a low risk of financial exposure and the incident doesnot impact the Board's view on outlook. Notice of resultsaccesso expects to announce its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2026 on Tuesday 15 September2026. Lee Cowie, Chief Executive Officer of accesso, commented: "Trading in the first half was resilient and in line with our expectations, and we have made encouraging progress inexecuting our strategy. We are pleased to be seeing growing customer engagement aligned to our integratedplatform offering, which brings together solutions across the guest experience lifecycle through a singlecommercial relationship. Customers are responding positively to the simplicity of the proposition and the clearerreturn on investment it provides, giving us confidence in the opportunity to drive increased customer value,sustainable growth and margin improvement over time." For further information, please contact: accesso Technology Group plc +44 (0)118 934 7400 Lee Cowie, Chief Executive Officer Matthew Boyle, Chief Financial Officer Deutsche Numis (Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker) +44 (0)20 7260 1000 Joshua Hughes, Iqra Amin, Spencer Clark Shore Capital (Joint Broker) +44 (0)20 7408 4090
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Daniel Bush, Fiona Conroy, Sophie Collins Alma Strategic Communications +44 (0)20 3405 0205 Hilary Buchanan, Josh Royston, David Ison accesso@almastrategic.com About accesso Technology Group plc At accesso, we believe technology has the power to redefine the guest experience. Our patented and award-winning solutions drive increased revenue for attraction operators while improving the guest experience. Currentlyserving over 1,100 clients in 31 countries around the globe, accesso's solutions help our clients streamlineoperations, generate increased revenues, improve guest satisfaction and harness the power of data to facilitatebusiness and marketing decisions. accesso stands as the leading technology provider of choice for tomorrow's attractions, venues and institutions. Tostay ahead, we invest heavily in research and development because our industries demand it, our clients benefitfrom it and it makes a positive impact on the guest experience. Our innovative technology solutions allow venuesto increase the volume and range of on-site spending and to drive increased transaction-based revenue throughcutting edge ticketing, point-of-sale, virtual queuing, distribution and experience management software. Many of our team members have direct, hands-on experience working in the venues we serve. In this way, we areexperienced operators who run a technology company serving attractions operators, versus a technologycompany that happens to serve the market. From our agile development team to our dedicated client servicespecialists, every team member knows that their passion, integrity, commitment, teamwork and innovation arewhat drive our success. accesso is a public company, listed on AIM: a market operated by the London Stock Exchange. For moreinformation visit www.accesso.com. Follow accesso on X, LinkedIn and Facebook. This information is provided by RNS, the news service of the London Stock Exchange. RNS is approved by the Financial Conduct Authorityto act as a Primary Information Provider in the United Kingdom. Terms and conditions relating to the use and distribution of this informationmay apply. For further information, please contact rns@lseg.com or visit www.rns.com. RNS may use your IP address to confirm compliance with the terms and conditions, to analyse how you engage with the informationcontained in this communication, and to share such analysis on an anonymised basis with others as part of our commercial services. Forfurther information about how RNS and the London Stock Exchange use the personal data you provide us, please see our Privacy Policy. END