Aspermont: B2B News Publisher - Subscription Services in Mining

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Aspermont is the leading media services provider to the global resource industries.

Aspermont has built a commercial XaaS model for B2B media which distributed high-value content to a growing global audience. This versatile model can be scaled to serve new business sectors in new countries and languages.

Aspermont's increased side of (paid) audiences has opened additional data monetization opportunities that the company is now developing.

Aspermont is listed on the ASX and Frankfurt Stock Exchange with offices in UK, Australia, Brazil, USA, Canada, Singapore and the Philippines.

Aspermont has built a commercial XaaS model for B2B media which can scale by geography and language.

CORPORATE STRUCTURE

Aspermont board members have extensive experience in corporate finance, technology, media and the mining sector. Independent directors contribute additional experience and expertise across legal, accountancy and corporate governance matters.

Alex Kent as Managing Director leads a management team that includes three key executives who all have extensive C-suite experience at blue chip media, marketing and data companies. All the executive team are aligned to shareholder interests through long-term incentive plans.

Aspermont is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX:ASP) and quoted on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FRA:00W). The company has offices in the UK, Australia, Brazil, Singapore and the Philippines.

RECENT CORPORATE HISTORY

Aspermont has a consolidated position as the leading media services provider to the global resource sectors. Aspermont brands such as Mining Journal and Mining Magazine have served the mining industry with high value content for almost 200 years building loyal and premium quality audiences.

Early in the internet age, Aspermont became a digital pioneer and successfully established, one of the first media paywalls in 2001 and then developed semantic search architecture in 2008.

Over the past 25 years, Aspermont has achieved significant competitive advantage as a global rather than regional media services provider, prompting the exit of regional competitors on several continents.

Aspermont is in a significant growth phase in B2B media subscriptions, driven by technological innovation able to expand the product range geographically and by sector.

The company now serves over 3 million people worldwide and has delivered a decade of continuous growth in paid audiences.

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The Aspermont Legacy

Aspermont owns the world's longest established mining industry titles, Mining Journal and Mining Magazine, with a combined 286-year heritage. They have been an indispensable source of information to support growth of the mining sector in Europe, Africa, the Americas and Australia. These two brands were the foundation for Aspermont's rise to become the dominant B2B global media services provider to the mining and energy industries today.
2000
ASX Listing

Aspermont lists on the Australian Stock Exchange and commences a new phase of growth.
2001
Aspermont Pioneers the Online Paywall Solution

In 2001, Aspermont launched the first online paywall news website in Australia. MiningNews.net dominates the mining digital information market and established the architecture for the subscriptions model for the 8 titles Aspermont has today.
2003
Aspermont launches energynewsbulletin.net

In 2003, Aspermont successfully scaled its mining news paywall solution into the Energy sector of the Australian market. Today EnergyNewsBulletin.net is the outright brand leader and is experiencing rapid audience growth.
2008
Aspermont Goes Global

Aspermont acquires the London based Mining Communications Limited, the custodian of Mining Journal and Mining Magazine, to establish a global B2B media company serving the mining industry.
Aspermont Develops Semantic Search Products

In 2010, Aspermont co-developed and launched ASPIRE, the first of a series of semantic based search solutions. The architecture and algorithms designed for ASPIRE provided critical differentiators for Aspermont's digital media capabilities.
2010
Aspermont Enters Agriculture

In 2010, Aspermont acquired Kondinin Group to enter the Australian agricultural sector. The launch of FarmingAhead.com.au and the government endorsed Australian Farmer of The Year Awards quickly established brand leadership of the important Australian agricultural sector.
2013
Aspermont establishes a LATAM Presence

Aspermont scaled is digital media paywall model into the Brazilian mining market in 2013. NoticiasdeMineracao.com overtook a 30-year-old incumbent competitor within 18 months to establish brand leadership as a Latin American publisher.

The simultaneous opening of Aspermont's Brazilian office in Belo Horizonte provides the hub for further expansion across the continent.
2015 - 2017
Aspermont 2.0
A New Management Team Achieves Legacy Business Turnaround

Between 2014 and 2017 some 83% of Aspermont's legacy business, in print, advertising and live events, was disrupted.

A new management team was assembled to re-build the business with a new digital focus. In the next 3 years, this management team achieved a comprehensive operational, digital, and financial turnaround.
2017
Project Horizon Establishes the XaaS Model

In 2017, Aspermont began the phased roll out of its next generation digital media platform codenamed: Project Horizon. The new platform enables advanced business capabilities in marketing automation, UX design and data analysis. It also allows for the optimisation of commercial workflows to lay the foundation for long term growth in Subscriptions revenue and all associated XaaS metrics.
Aspermont Establishes a North American Presence

Aspermont had served a large North American audience for over a hundred years and in 2017 the company prioritised the establishment of a North American business. New services, products and continental resources were specifically designed for North American companies with strong commercial outcomes and consistent growth.
2018
Aspermont launches an Events Division

Aspermont launches a new live and virtual Events Division in 2018 to extend its range of client services.

The Future of Mining and Mining Journal Select global events series quickly became significant revenue and contribution drivers.
Aspermont establishes a Research Division

In 2018 Aspermont established Mining Journal Intelligence, a new Research Division to extend its range of products to serve a growing range of blue-chip clients.

Aspermont has built a reputation for providing high value content and the new research division has had a significant impact on subscriber penetration, engagement, retention, and upselling. Aspermont continues to roll out additional research services to meet subscriber demand.
2019
Aspermont establishes a Content Agency Division

Aspermont launches a new Content Agency division to extend its client services.

The new agency provides deeper marketing focus for clients on key topics and thought leadership.

Long-term, multi stakeholder and multimedia campaigns serve to elevate Aspermont commercial propositions and support industry relationships and alliances.
Aspermont Establishes a Data Division

In 2019, Aspermont established a new Data division to extend its client services.

After years of high audience growth, Aspermont develops a range of segmented data solutions for its client base. This new division will be a major longer term growth area.
2020
Aspermont Launches Virtual Events & Exhibitions (VEE) Division

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its restrictions on live events; Aspermont accelerated the launch of its VEE division.

Leveraging its successful live event series the company has significant early successes and building a long term revenue foundation.
Key Financial Milestone: Break Event Point

After 6 years of full business turnaround, continual earnings and revenue improvements and over 20 consecutive quarters of back to back growth in subscriptions revenues and all XaaS metrics, Aspermont delivers its maiden profit.
2021
German Stock Market Listings

Looking to brings its story to a new investor market, Aspermont list on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and is quickly picked up by other regional and pan-European exchanges.
2024
Aspermont launches Nexus

Following the success of Content Works, which Aspermont launched in 2019, the company rebrands and launches a new full service creative and marketing agency, Nexus.
2025
34 Consecutive Quarters of Scalable Growth

Aspermont announces its 34th consecutive quarter of growth in subscriptions underpinned by its XaaS based commercial model. Significant growth in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) and Average Revenue Per Unit (ARPU) is recorded alongside consistent expansion in gross margins.
Today

Aspermont is the leading media services provider to the global resource industries.

In the last 10 years Aspermont has transformed from a 200-year-old print publisher to be a leading mediatech innovator.

Aspermont's core business models are XaaS based and have delivered consecutive quarter on quarter growth for more than eight successive years.

Powerful brands, a top tier management team and recognised leadership in B2B media for the mining sector will enable the company to deliver sustained growth.

Aspermont intends to build on its leadership in existing markets and to expand the business model by geography, by language and by sector.