
TORONTO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 02/07/13 -- Smart Employee Benefits Inc. ("SEB") (TSX VENTURE: SEB), is a technology company providing software, solutions and services specializing in "managing group benefit solutions and healthcare claims processing environments, managing human resource processes and requirements and automating business processes" for corporate, government and non-profit clients. SEB is pleased to announce it has received final approval from the TSX Venture Exchange and has closed the acquisition of Logitek Technology Ltd. ("QLogitek").
Mr. Latiq Qureshi, the principal of QLogitek, has joined the board of directions of SEB. Mr. Qureshi is the founder of QLogitek. He has been operating his own businesses since 1976. Mr. Qureshi has extensive global business and technology experience throughout Africa, the Far East, the Middle East, Europe and North America since 1969. He has extensive global business relationships and his companies have achieved many prestigious awards for technology innovation. Mr. Qureshi, personally, was also recognized by the Government of Canada with the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal for his commitment, perseverance and support for community leadership.
PURCHASE TERMS:
SEB issued, in satisfaction of the $2,009,452 purchase price, 6,698,173 SEB shares ("Shares") and 1,000,000 Share Purchase Warrants ("Warrants"). SEB and the Seller of QLogitek, Logitek Data Sciences Ltd., agreed to a contractual escrow arrangement pursuant to which one million Shares would be released on the closing and the balance over a period of 30 months in various amounts at 6 month intervals. The Warrants have a term of 42 months and an escalating exercise price every 12 months of $0.45, $0.55 and $0.65 during the first three years of the term and at $0.75 for the last six months of the term. The Warrants contain performance vesting conditions during their term equating to cumulative revenue and EBITDA targets of $15.0 million and $3.0 million, respectively. As part of the transaction and in order to retire $651,858 of debt owing by QLogitek, SEB issued a five year convertible note in the amount of $651,858 with an annualized interest rate of 3% and an escalating conversion price of $0.45, $0.55, $0.65, $0.70 and $0.75 from years one through five.
ABOUT QLOGITEK:
QLogitek is a leading B2B-EDI supply chain integration solutions provider. B2B complexities surrounding planning, buying, making, paying, moving, and selling are conveniently managed through the company's suite of 10 products and services. This suite connects enterprises with their trading partners to enable an array of supply chain processes such as EDI exchange for supplier order fulfillment, inbound management for distribution centre optimization, repair-order tracking, scan-based trading, product lifecycle management and claims management. The company offers an innovative cloud computing service delivery model as well as a traditional on-premise model.
20,000 trading partner organizations including manufacturers, shippers, and distributors are mobilized by QLogitek across 170 countries for leading North American retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) enterprises. These enterprises include LCBO, Hudsons Bay Company, Best Buy, LG Electronics and Rogers Communications, to mention a few. QLogitek's 24x7 operations allow approximately 80,000 business users globally to conduct over 3.7 billion transactions annually.
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