Coda Octopus Group, Inc.: Third Quarter 2013 Results

Lakeland, FL September 18^th, 2013 - Coda Octopus Group, Inc. (OTC: CDOC.PK) yesterday announced its unaudited financial results for Q3 fiscal year 2013.

For the nine months ending July 31, 2013, the Group achieved revenues of $17.2m, up 11% from $15.5m for the comparable period last year, and Net Income of $3.9m up 12.1% from $3.5m in the previous year. The Group also generated a positive cash flow from its operating activities of $4.1m in the nine month period.  These results once again show the excellent progress the Group has made under its restructuring since September 2009.  The full Quarterly Report is available at http://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/CDOC/filings.

Annmarie Gayle, Group CEO said "These are another set of good results from the Group, again showing progress in all major areas.  Our Selling, General and Administrative Expenditures (SG&A) expenditures are running at around 24% of revenues in the nine month period and is in keeping with our plans. Although our financial performance as a business is susceptible to governmental procurement cycles and seasonal fluctuations we believe with the right strategy over the years we are confident of seeing continued progress the performance of our Group".

About Coda Octopus Group, Inc.
Originally founded in 1994 as Coda Technologies, the Coda Octopus Group is now headquartered in Lakeland, Florida.  The Group consists of a Marine Products business in Florida and Edinburgh, Scotland, and engineering businesses in Utah, USA and Weymouth, England. Each of the Group companies are technology innovators with a particularly high level of sonar expertise. The Group has facilities in Florida, Utah, the UK and Norway.
Alongside providing custom engineering and development for defense applications, and oil and gas, companies, one of the Group's key products is the Coda(TM) Echoscope^® - the first real time 3D subsea sonar. The Echoscope^® is also at the heart of the Underwater Inspection System(TM) which is being adopted for homeland security, and other applications in ports around the world.
With this patented revolutionizing sub-sea visualization capability, and the existing systems integration skills within Coda Octopus Colmek Systems Engineering, Inc. and Coda Octopus Martech Systems Engineering Ltd, the Coda Octopus Group believes they can become a world leading integrated sonar technology supplier.
For further information, please visit www.codaoctopus.com, www.colmek.com, www.martechsystems.co.uk, or www.codaoctopusgroup.com or contact Coda Octopus Group at info@codaoctopusgroup.com.

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