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Greencore — FY2012 Earnings Presentation

32 slides from Greencore's earnings presentation, Nov 27, 2012

  1. Slide 1: Results for the year ended 28 September 2012

    Results For the year ended 28 September 2012 1

  2. Slide 2: Agenda

    AGENDA Highlights Patrick Coveney, CEO Financial Review Alan Williams, CFO Operating & Strategic Review Patrick Coveney, CEO Outlook Patrick Coveney, CEO Q&A Open to the Floor 2

  3. Slide 3: Highlights

    HIGHLIGHTS • Extensive reshaping of Group now complete • Focused and growing convenience food group with broad customer balance • Strong underlying momentum right across the portfolio • Integration of Uniq largely complete with targeted synergies fully delivered • Establishment of a larger scale foo

  4. Slide 4: Financial Review

    FINANCIAL REVIEW Alan Williams Chief Financial Officer

  5. Slide 5: Financial Summary

    FINANCIAL SUMMARY FY12 Versus FY11 Revenue Revenue £1,161.9m +44.5% Revenue Revenue –– continuing continuing activity activity11 £1,107.7m +10.4% Operating Operating profit profit22 £70.7m +37.3% Operating Operating margin margin22 6.1% -30 bps Adjusted Adjusted earnings earnings33 £49.2m +70.9% Adj

  6. Slide 6: Convenience Foods

    CONVENIENCE FOODS FY12 FY11 % £m £m change • Strong sales and profit performance despite continued challenging market conditions Revenue – 1,091.1 732.2 +49.0% • Continuing activity revenue growth as reported of 11.2% (7.4% excluding impact of Revenue – US and ICL acquistions) driven by good categor

  7. Slide 7: Convenience Foods Margin

    CONVENIENCE FOODS MARGIN • Reported operating margin Operating Margin % 40bps lower at 6.3% driven by 6.7 6.3 lower margin Uniq businesses 5.3 • Pro-forma operating margin +100 +100 bps bps 100bps ahead driven by: • Uniq acquisition cost synergy 1.9 delivery • Underlying performance improvement in t

  8. Slide 8: Ingredients & Property

    INGREDIENTS & PROPERTY • Good performance in ingredients FY12 FY11 % change businesses with sales growth on a % constant constant currency basis and £m £m change currency operating profit increase • Reduction in operating profit for Revenue 70.8 72.0 -1.7% +2.9% division explained by year-on-year de

  9. Slide 9: Finance Costs

    FINANCE COSTS Bank interest payable has decreased from FY11 despite incremental debt to part finance Uniq acquisition £m FY12 FY11 Bank interest payable (16.4) (16.9) Unwind of discount to present value 0.1 0.2 Net pension financing charge (4.7) (1.8) FX/Fair value of derivatives 2.8 4.6 Net finance

  10. Slide 10: Tax Charge

    TAX CHARGE • Group’s effective tax rate (“ETR”) has reduced to 4% (FY11: 13%) largely as a result of the Uniq acquisition • Uniq business possessed significant tax attributes • An income statement credit will be recognised each year in relation to the amortisation of the intangible assets identified

  11. Slide 11: Exceptional Costs

    EXCEPTIONAL COSTS Income FY12 Exceptionals Statement £m Integration costs of UK acquisitions (7.6) Integration costs of US acquisitions (3.1) Transaction costs (2.2) Onerous lease obligation on former business (1.1) Pre tax impact (14.0) Tax relief on exceptional items and resolution of overseas cas

  12. Slide 12: EPS and Dividend

    EPS AND DIVIDEND EPS FY12 FY11 Adjusted earnings3 £49.2m £28.8m EPS • Adjusted earnings 70.9% ahead Denominator for earnings per 385.0m 273.9m share • Adjusted earnings per share up 21.9% Adjusted earnings per share3 12.8p 10.5p Dividend FY12 FY11 Total dividend distribution £16.7m £13.4m* Dividend

  13. Slide 13: Net Debt and Leverage

    NET DEBT AND LEVERAGE Net Debt £152.2m £34.0m £258.0m £139.8m Sept 11 Acquisition spend Net cash inflow Sept 12 Debt • Net debt at 28 September 2012 of £258.0m • Increase of £118.2m driven by acquisition spend of £152.2m • Significant improvement in operating cashflow drives net cash inflow of £34.0

  14. Slide 14: Cashflow

    CASHFLOW Significant Significant improvement improvement in in operating operating cashflow cashflow £m FY12 FY11 Improvement EBITDA 93.5 69.9 +£23.6m Working capital movement 23.4 (1.6) +£25.0m Net capex (30.4) (23.0) Interest & tax (13.6) (22.2) Operating cashflow 72.9 23.1 +£49.8m Pension financi

  15. Slide 15: Focus on Working Capital Improvement

    FOCUS ON WORKING CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT Significant Significant improvement improvement in in working working capital capital -- £23.4m £23.4m inflow inflow in in FY12 FY12 FY12 movement Drivers • Targeted inventory reduction in former Uniq businesses, downsizing of Inventory £0.3m inflow Minsterley •

  16. Slide 16: Summary - Financial Performance

    SUMMARY - FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE • Strong financial and operating performance despite challenging market conditions • Substantial increase in revenue, operating profit and earnings • Substantial increase in operating cashflow • Covenant test leverage below 2.5 times • Adjusted EPS growth of 21.9% to

  17. Slide 17: Operating & Strategic Review

    OPERATING & STRATEGIC REVIEW PATRICK COVENEY CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

  18. Slide 18: Delivering Strongly Against Our Economic Model

    DELIVERING STRONGLY AGAINST OUR ECONOMIC MODEL LONG TERM DELIVERY DRIVERS TARGETS • Against total food market growth of 3.1%** and chilled prepared foods growth of 5.0%** • Thoughtful category selection and strong Revenue* LFL growth >5% 7.4% commercial relationships • Innovation to drive consumer a

  19. Slide 19: FY12 Performance Priorities

    FY12 PERFORMANCE PRIORITIES SUSTAIN strong like-for-like revenue 1 momentum across the portfolio 2 Flawlessly INTEGRATE the Uniq business RESHAPE our strategy, footprint and 3 performance trajectory in the US 19

  20. Slide 20: Core Business Performance - Tackling Market Challenges

    CORE BUSINESS PERFORMANCE 1 - TACKLING MARKET CHALLENGES Challenge Challenge Greencore Greencore action action Impact Impact •• Product Product and and packaging packaging solutions solutions to minimise impact to minimise impact •• ‘Total ‘Total Lowest Lowest Cost’ Cost’ and and •• ‘Cash ‘Cash marg

  21. Slide 21: Core Business Performance - Food to Go

    CORE BUSINESS PERFORMANCE 1 - FOOD TO GO • Represents c.40% of Convenience Foods revenues with broad customer and format exposure 37%* 37%* • Category includes sandwiches, baguettes, Market Marketshare share sandwiches sandwiches sushi, ready to eat salads and side of plate salads • Growth was volum

  22. Slide 22: Core Business Performance - Prepared Meals

    CORE BUSINESS PERFORMANCE 1 - PREPARED MEALS • Re-shaped business with strong market positions in chilled ready meals, quiche, 28%** 28%** pasta sauces and soups Market Marketshare share chilled chilledItalian Italian • Now manufacturing from five UK meals meals facilities, including newly acquired

  23. Slide 23: Core Business Performance - Grocery & Frozen Foods

    CORE BUSINESS PERFORMANCE 1 - GROCERY & FROZEN FOODS • Grocery activity focused on cooking 79%** 79%** sauces, table sauces and pickles; Frozen Market Marketshare share own ownlabel label Foods comprised of Yorkshire puddings cooking cooking sauces sauces and toad-in-the-hole • Good own label growth

  24. Slide 24: Uniq Integration - Successfully Delivered

    UNIQ INTEGRATION 2 - SUCCESSFULLY DELIVERED •• Performance Performance sustained sustained in in high high performing performing Northampton Northampton sandwich sandwich business business •• Successful Successful addition addition of of Marks Marks && Spencer Spencer as as aa material material new

  25. Slide 25: Uniq Integration - Commercial Rebalancing

    UNIQ INTEGRATION 2 - COMMERCIAL REBALANCING FY11 FY12 • A more balanced customer mix • Reflects the relative size of customer shares in UK convenience foods • Now serving full range of value to premium tiers Source: Estimated based on Greencore retail revenue for FY12, excluding Uniq activity exited

  26. Slide 26: Evolution of Our US Business

    3 EVOLUTION OF OUR US BUSINESS 2008 2010 2012 US USmarket marketentry entry Emergence Emergenceof offood foodto togo go Focused, Focused,scaled-up scaled-upbusiness business • Acquisition of Home • Addition of On A Roll • Acquisitions of Market Key Key Event Event Made Brand Foods Fare and Schau and

  27. Slide 27: US Strategy - Strategy Driven by Key Learnings

    US STRATEGY 3 - STRATEGY DRIVEN BY KEY LEARNINGS Strategy Rationale •• Role Role of of ‘day-part’ ‘day-part’ in in shopping/consumption shopping/consumption Develop Develop Market-specific Market-specific •• Portion Portion sizes sizes and and regional regional tastes tastes Consumer Consumer Propos

  28. Slide 28: US Strategy - Channel, Customer and Category Focus

    US STRATEGY 3 - CHANNEL, CUSTOMER AND CATEGORY FOCUS • A focused, channel specific business with over 85% of pro-forma revenues in food to go products • Pro-forma revenues of c. $200m+ with capacity to deliver c. $350m of revenue with existing customers from current sites • Business and economic mod

  29. Slide 29: FY12 Performance Priorities

    FY12 PERFORMANCE PRIORITIES SUSTAIN strong like-for-like revenue 1 momentum across the portfolio 2 Flawlessly INTEGRATE the Uniq business RESHAPE our strategy, footprint and 3 performance trajectory in the US DELIVER strong cashflow to deleverage the Group in an uncertain market 29

  30. Slide 30: A Focused Growing Convenience Food Leader

    A FOCUSED GROWING CONVENIENCE FOOD LEADER Revenue Revenue £1.2bn UK UK UK Prepared Prepared UK UK Grocery Grocery & & UK UK Cakes Cakes && US US Ingredients Ingredients & & UKFood FoodtotoGo Go Meals Meals Frozen Frozen Foods Foods Desserts Desserts Convenience Convenience Property Property % of run

  31. Slide 31: Outlook

    OUTLOOK • Market conditions remain challenging in the UK • Like for like volume pressures in the UK grocery market • Little economic growth • Consumers under considerable financial pressure • Continued input cost inflation in FY13 • The Group remains well positioned to deliver further progress in FY

  32. Slide 32: Greencore

    greencore bringing convenience to good food

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