IWL Communications, Inc.
Ticker:IWLC 12000 Aerospace Avenue, Suite 200
Exchange:NASDAQ-National Market Houston, TX 77034
Industry:Construction (SIC Code 1731) (281) 482-0289
# of Employees:124

Offering Information
Type of Shares:Common Shares Filing Date:3/5/97
U.S. Shares:1,450,000 Offer Date:6/13/97
Non-U.S. Shares:0 Filing Range:$7.50 - $8.50
Primary Shares:1,450,000 Offer Price:$6.00
Secondary Shares:0 Gross Spread:$0.42
Offering Amount: $11,600,000 Selling:$0.25
Expenses:$811,000 Reallowance:$0.10
Shares Out After:3,477,816

Primary Underwriting Group
ManagerTierPhone
Cruttenden Roth IncorporatedLead Manager (800) 678-9147

Legal Counsel, Auditor and Registrar
Issuer's Law Firm: Munsch Hardt Kopf Harr & Dinan
Bank's Law Firm: Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison
Auditor: KPMG Peat Marwick
Registrar/Transfer Agent: American Securities Transfer, Inc

Selected Financial Data

Dollar amounts in U.S. millions except for per share data
9 Month Ending Financials
Full Year
Audited
Income
Latest
Unaudited
Income
Prior
Unaudited
Income
Balance
Sheet
6/30/96 3/31/97 3/31/96 3/31/97
Revenue:$27.80$23.61$16.35Assets:$16.32
Net Income:$0.73$0.49$0.54Curr Assets:$7.72
EPS:$0.33$0.22$0.24Liabilities:$12.12
Prior EPS:$0.24$0.84$1.69Curr Liabilities:$5.73
Cash Flow/Oper:$0.34$2.39-$0.91Equity:$4.20
Cash Flow/Fin:$0.36-$3.25-$0.41Cash:$0.34
Cash Flow/Inv:-$0.63-$3.25Working Cap:$1.98

Business Description
The company provides advanced communications solutions to customers with operations in remote, difficult-access regions and in areas around the world where government deregulation has created new market opportunities. The company delivers comprehensive communications services to its customers by utilizing a broad range of analog and digital technologies, including satellite, microwave radio, conventional two-way radio and fiber optic cable. The company's core business to date has focused on the provision of communications solutions for customers in the oil and gas industry, such as AMOCO, British Gas, Chevron, Conoco, Exxon and Shell. Such customers exemplify users with unique communications needs related to the remote, difficult-access nature of their operating locations. By providing a wide range of communications solutions to its oil and gas customers, the company has developed and implementing total communications solutions for multi-site customers with operations located in remote regions or underdeveloped areas where the existing communications infrastructure is insufficient to meet advanced telecommunications needs. The company intends to leverage this skill set and expertise by supplying communications services to multi-site customers outside of the oil and gas industry, particularly customers with operations located near the company's existing and planned telecommunications infrastructure. Potential additional customers include health care providers, financial institutions and other multi-location communication-intensive companies, such as large publishing companies.

Competition
The nature of the company's competition is diverse due to the breadth of the services offered by the company and the geographic regions in which such services are provided. The company is subject to intense competition with respect to each of its individual service offerings. Many of the company's competitors have significantly greater financial, technical, manufacturing, personnels and marketing resources than the company. To date, however, the company believes that these large competitors generally have not made it a priority to provide telecommunications services in remote, difficult-access regions. Should one or more of such companies focus on such services, it likely would have a material adverse effect on the financial condition, results of operations and cash flow of the company. Currently, the company believes it competes directly with Autocom Communications Engineering Corp., Sola Communications, Inc. and Datacom for the sale of telecommunications services to oil and gas companies in the Gulf of Mexico. As the company pursues new markets, the company likely will encounter new competitors. While the recent WTO agreement may result in regulatory changes that could benefit the company as it competes in existing markets, or seeks to enter new markets, there can be no assurance that the agreement will be implemented in a manner that would benefit the company or that the pro-competitive effects of the agreement will not increase the amount of competition encountered by the company.

Business Plan
The company's goal is to become a leading provider of total communications solutions to end users with operations in remote, difficult-access regions or in areas around the world where government deregulation has created new market opportunities and to leverage this position by providing carrier services to additional customer located in these same regions. To reach this goal, the company intends to pursue the following strategies: (I) Develop Additional Company-Owned Infrastructure, (ii) Vertically Integrate Service Offerings, (iii) Capitalize on Opportunities Created By Government Deregulation and Globalization Trends In Various Industries and (iv) Expand Existing Strategic Alliances and Establish New Alliances.

Use of Proceeds
The proceeds from the proposed offering will be used to acquire equipment for the continued development of communications infrastructure, to repay a capitalized lease and for working capital and general corporate purposes.

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