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Fmc — Ingalls & Snyder LLC Seminar for Specialty Chemical Companies (November 2008)

20 slides from Fmc's conference presentation, Nov 10, 2008

  1. Slide 1: FMC Corporation – Ingalls & Snyder Seminar for Specialty Chemical Companies

    FMC Corporation Ingalls & Snyder LLC Seminar for Specialty Chemical Companies November 10, 2008 Brennen M. Arndt Director, Investor Relations Exhibit 99.1

  2. Slide 2: Disclaimer

    Disclaimer Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 These slides and the accompanying presentation contain “forward-looking statements” that represent management’s best judgment as of the date hereof based on information currently available. Actual results of

  3. Slide 3: FMC Corporation LTM ending September 30, 2008

    FMC CORPORATION Revenue: $3,052 EBITDA: $636 Margin*: 20.8% INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS Revenue: $1,273 EBITDA: $246 Margin*: 19.3% AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS Revenue: $1,047 EBITDA: $262 Margin*: 25.0% SPECIALTY CHEMICALS Revenue: $735 EBITDA: $184 Margin*: 25.1% FMC Corporation LTM ending September 30, 2008 (

  4. Slide 4: Leading Market Positions

    Leading Market Positions ( 1) Based on 2007 consolidated sales (2) Shared Industrial Chemicals #1 in N.A. Soda Ash #1 in N.A. (2) Peroxygens #1 Globally Carrageenan #1 Globally Carbofuran #2 in N.A. Pyrethroids Agricultural Products #2 Globally Alginates Specialty Chemicals #1 Globally (2) #1 Global

  5. Slide 5: Diversified Customers and End Markets

    Non-GDP Cyclical 81% GDP- Cyclical 19% Diversified Customers and End Markets Greater than 80% of sales to non-GDP cyclical end markets No single customer represents more than 5% of sales Top 10 customers represent approximately 15% of sales 2007 Consolidated Sales Agricultural 34% Detergents 9% Phar

  6. Slide 6: Diversified and Integrated Cost Structure

    Diversified and Integrated Cost Structure Low cost sourcing of raw materials • Backward integration: soda ash, lithium • Global sourcing of renewable resources: hardwood pulp, seaweed Low reliance on purchased raw materials • Total raw materials represented 28% of cost of sales in 2007 • No single r

  7. Slide 7: Disciplined Approach to Unlocking Value

    Realizing the inherent operating leverage within FMC • Sustaining earnings growth > 10% per year (1) • Realizing pricing and volume leverage in Industrial Chemicals • Continuing growth in Specialty Chemicals and Agricultural Products Maintaining financial strength and flexibility • Investing in high

  8. Slide 8: Agricultural Products

    Insecticides 57% Herbicides 41% Fungicides 2% North America 22% Asia Pacific 15% EMEA 17% Latin America 46% Agricultural Products Strong niche positions in the Americas, Europe and Asia Proprietary, branded insecticides and herbicides Strategic Focus: • Selected products, crops and regions • Shiftin

  9. Slide 9: Agricultural Products

    Agricultural Products 2008 segment earnings up nearly 20 percent driven by sales growth and further supply chain productivity improvements, partially offset by higher raw material costs

  10. Slide 10: Specialty Chemicals

    Latin America 7% Asia Pacific 21% EMEA 36% North America 36% Lithium 32% BioPolymer 68% Specialty Chemicals BioPolymers - structure, texture and stability to food; binders and disintegrants for dry tablet drugs Lithium focus on specialties – pharmaceuticals, energy storage Strategic Focus: • Growing

  11. Slide 11: Specialty Chemicals

    Specialty Chemicals 2008 segment earnings growth in the high-single digits driven by strong commercial performance in BioPolymer, partially offset by higher raw material and energy costs and higher export taxes in Argentina

  12. Slide 12: Industrial Chemicals

    Asia 7% Alkali (Soda Ash) 52% Peroxygens 16% Foret 32% North America 48% Latin America 11% EMEA 34% Asia Pacific 7 % Industrial Chemicals #1 North American manufacturer of soda ash and peroxygens Low cost, proprietary production technologies Strategic Focus: • Managing for cash generation • Continue

  13. Slide 13: Industrial Chemicals

    Industrial Chemicals 2008 segment earnings more than double as aggregate price and volume benefits more than offset higher raw material costs

  14. Slide 14: FMC in Summary

    FMC in Summary Great businesses, each with EBITDA >$180 million Sustained double-digit earnings growth (1) • Diverse end-markets, low correlation to economic cycles • Aggregate pricing and volume leverage in Industrial Chemicals • Continued growth in Specialty Chemicals and Ag Products Strategic and

  15. Slide 15: Glossary of Financial Terms & Reconciliations of GAAP to Non-GAAP

    FMC Corporation Glossary of Financial Terms & Reconciliations of GAAP to Non-GAAP

  16. Slide 16: Non-GAAP Financial Terms

    Non-GAAP Financial Terms These slides contain certain “non-GAAP financial terms” which are defined below. In addition, we have provided reconciliations of non-GAAP terms to the closest GAAP term in the appendix of this presentation. EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortizat

  17. Slide 17: Segment Financial Terms

    Segment Financial Terms These slides contain references to segment financial items which are presented in detail in Note 20 of FMC’s third quarter 2008 Form 10-Q. Some of the segment financial terms are “non-GAAP financial terms” and are defined below. In addition, we have provided reconciliations o

  18. Slide 18: Reconciliation of LTM 9/30/2008 income to EBITDA

    Reconciliation of LTM 9/30/2008 consolidated income from continuing operations before income taxes (a GAAP measure) to LTM 9/30/2008 EBITDA (a Non-GAAP measure) EBITDA Reconciliation: LTM 9/30/2008 ( Unaudited , in $ millions ) LTM 9/30/2008 Income (loss) from continuing operations before income tax

  19. Slide 19: Reconciliation of LTM 9/30/2008 segment operating profit to EBITDA

    Reconciliation of LTM 9/30/2008 segment operating profit (a GAAP - measure) to LTM 9/30/2008 EBITDA (a Non-GAAP measure) (Unaudited, in millions) Segment EBITDA Reconciliation: LTM 9/30/2008 Segment Industrial Specialty Agricultural Chemicals Chemicals Products LTM 9/30/2008 segment operating profit

  20. Slide 20: FMC Corporation

    FMC Corporation

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