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Greencore — FY2014 Earnings Presentation

36 slides from Greencore's earnings presentation, Nov 25, 2014

  1. Slide 1: Results for the year ended 26 September 2014

    Results For the year ended 26 September 2014

  2. Slide 2: Agenda

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

  3. Slide 3: Highlights

    HIGHLIGHTS  Strong performance  Significant strategic investments 3

  4. Slide 4: Financial Review

    FINANCIAL REVIEW Alan Williams Chief Financial Officer

  5. Slide 5: Financial Summary

    FINANCIAL SUMMARY FY14 Versus FY13 Revenue £1,273.5m +6.4% Operating profit1 £82.9m +11.4% Operating margin1 6.5% +30 bps Adjusted PBT2 £68.7m +15.5% Adjusted earnings per share2 15.9p +13.6% Dividend per share 5.45p +13.5% Net debt £212.1m -£20.7m ROIC 13.7% +100bps 1. EBITDA, operating profit and

  6. Slide 6: Convenience Foods

    CONVENIENCE FOODS Strong performance of Convenience Foods division FY14 FY13 FY14 Like for like revenue growth* £m £m % change Revenue 1,213.4 1,129.2 +7.5% 15.3% Operating 80.7 72.2 +11.8% 7.5% 8.4% profit1 Operating 6.7% 6.4% +30 bps margin1 UK US Convenience Foods  Convenience Foods LFL revenue

  7. Slide 7: Ingredients & Property

    INGREDIENTS & PROPERTY Steady performance of Ingredients and Property % change FY14 FY13 Actual Constant Division represents 5% of £m £m currency currency Group activity Revenue 60.1 67.9 -11.5% -9.7% Operating 2.2 2.2 n/a n/a profit1  Revenue decline driven by  Lower commodity prices in edible oi

  8. Slide 8: Financing, Tax and Pensions

    FINANCING, TAX AND PENSIONS Financing  Bank interest payable fell to £14.9m (FY13: £15.5m): lower average net debt and lower effective interest rate  Net finance charge including non cash items* of £15.4m (FY13: £16.8m) Tax  Group effective tax rate of 1% (FY13: 0%**)  Effective tax rate continu

  9. Slide 9: Exceptional Items

    EXCEPTIONAL ITEMS Income £m Statement Planned exit from Newburyport and Brockton US facilities (9.9) Transaction and integration costs of US acquisition (1.3) Disposal of Ministry of Cake (6.5) Disposal of Littlehampton property (3.5) Resolution of legacy insurance matter 3.8 Pension curtailment gai

  10. Slide 10: EPS and Dividend

    EPS AND DIVIDEND EPS FY14 FY13  Adjusted earnings 15.6% ahead Adjusted earnings2 £63.7m £55.1m  Adjusted earnings per share up 13.6% Denominator for earnings 401.2m 393.6m per share Adjusted earnings per share2 15.9p 14.0p Dividend FY14 FY13  Final dividend proposed of 3.25 pence per share Total

  11. Slide 11: Cashflow and Net Debt

    CASHFLOW AND NET DEBT Net debt at 26 September 2014 of £212.1m - comfortably below 2.0 times Net Debt/EBITDA £m FY14 FY13 Analysis of capital expenditure EBITDA1 109.5 99.3 £m FY14 FY13 Working capital inflow 9.8 9.9 Base capex 34.6 34.4 Net capex (51.3) (34.4) Major capacity 16.7 - Interest & tax (

  12. Slide 12: Borrowings Profile

    BORROWINGS PROFILE  Total committed facilities of £485m – weighted average debt maturity of 2.7 years as at 26 September 2014 Maturity of facilities at 26 September 2014, £m 300 250 280 200 150 100 50 60 50 55 40 0 FY16 FY16 FY19 FY20 FY22 October 2015 May 2016 October 2018 March 2020 October 2021

  13. Slide 13: Summary - Financial Goals

    SUMMARY - FINANCIAL GOALS Key Metrics Goal FY14 Outcome Key Drivers  Successful customer initiatives & 5% 8.4% convenience store growth in UK Revenue* LFL LFL  Roll out of major customer contract in the US  Strong growth Operating Maintain 6.7%  Improvements in lower margin Margin* above 6% part

  14. Slide 14: Strategy, Operating Review and Outlook

    STRATEGY, OPERATING REVIEW AND OUTLOOK Patrick Coveney Chief Executive Officer

  15. Slide 15: Strategic delivery has created a focused, growing food to go leader

    STRATEGIC DELIVERY HAS CREATED A FOCUSED, 1 GROWING FOOD TO GO LEADER • FY14 Group revenue of £1.3bn • LFL Convenience Foods growth of 8.4% UK UK UK US Ingredients Prepared Food to Go Grocery Food to Go & Property Meals c. % of run rate 40% 20% 20% 15% 5% revenue* Food to Go long term focus driven b

  16. Slide 16: UK business focused on highest growth categories within food

    OUR UK BUSINESS IS FOCUSED ON THE HIGHEST 1 GROWTH CATEGORIES WITHIN FOOD Estimated market size Estimated market growth (excluding beverages) 2013 / 2014 Sandwiches £6bn +10% High growth categories Out-of- home/FtG £15bn +5% Other out-of- home £65bn +0.3% consumption Rest of food £150bn -1.3% 1 Base

  17. Slide 17: Growth underpinned by expansion in the convenience channel

    THIS GROWTH IS UNDERPINNED BY EXPANSION 1 IN THE CONVENIENCE CHANNEL… Physical formats for leading grocers CAGR CAGR Number of stores CAGR 2014 -2017 2009 -2014 2011–13, % 13,419 371 7% 1% 11,360 360 2% 1% 5,020 8,761 Hypermarkets 252 4,681 Supermarkets 4,215 8% 5% 8,028 6,319 Convenience 4,294 2009

  18. Slide 18: Underlying consumer trends that support growth in our categories

    ...AND BY UNDERLYING CONSUMER TRENDS 1 THAT SUPPORT GROWTH IN OUR CATEGORIES 1 Good value for money Affordable indulgence 2 3 Convenient to eat/snack Fresh and healthy 4 18

  19. Slide 19: Reshaped US operations into a food to go focused business

    WE HAVE RESHAPED OUR US OPERATIONS INTO 1 A FOOD TO GO FOCUSED BUSINESS 2008 2010 2012 - 2014 Entry into the Emergence of Focused, scaled-up US Market Food to Go Food to Go business • Acquisition of Home • Acquisition of On A • Acquisitions of MarketFare Foods, HC Made Brand Foods Roll Schau & Letti

  20. Slide 20: Economics of our food to go business support our refined strategy

    THE ECONOMICS OF OUR FOOD TO GO 1 BUSINESS SUPPORT OUR REFINED STRATEGY Revenue Growth - UK Food to Go Revenue Growth - US Food to Go 64.3% 58.0% 15.3% 9.8% 6.9% 22.5% 24.7% 4.4% FY11 FY12 FY13 FY14 FY11 FY12 FY13 FY14 1 Continued strong growth in the UK and a platform to materially grow our US busi

  21. Slide 21: UK Convenience Performance

    UK CONVENIENCE PERFORMANCE 2 STRONG PERFORMANCE IN CHALLENGING ENVIRONMENT Growth rates Performance driven by: 7.5%  Strong market growth in food to go  Multiple new customer initiatives delivering share growth in key 2.1% categories 1.1%  Positive operating leverage UK food market (excl drinks)*

  22. Slide 22: UK Convenience Performance: Divisional Highlights

    UK CONVENIENCE PERFORMANCE 2 DIVISIONAL HIGHLIGHTS 1 Food to Go Division  Strong revenue growth of 15.3% versus market growth of 9.5%:  Successful re-launches with several key customers 44%  New business wins Market share  Expansion of Northampton food to go facility sandwiches 2 Prepared Meals

  23. Slide 23: US Food to Go Performance

    2 US FOOD TO GO PERFORMANCE... FY14  Focused on food to go categories to small store performance customers  Revenue growth of 24.7%* (LFL growth of 15.3%)  Rollout of major contract with key customer  Planned exit of non-core product lines  Increased focus on hot eating offerings  Significant

  24. Slide 24: Wide food to go footprint with fresh & frozen capabilities

    ...CREATING A WIDE FOOD TO GO FOOTPRINT 2 WITH FRESH & FROZEN CAPABILITIES SEATTLE, WA Announced November 2014 MINNEAPOLIS, MN NEWBURYPORT, MA Capability: Fresh & NPD centre Acquired February 2014 Acquired April 2008 Employees: 190 BROCKTON, MA Closing in FY15 Capability: Frozen Acquired December 20

  25. Slide 25: Investments in capability and culture

    INVESTMENTS IN CAPABILITY AND CULTURE TO 2 DELIVER STRATEGY AND FUTURE PERFORMANCE Large scale facility People and Process enhancement • Structures • Northampton • HR and talent • IT • Rhode Island • Culture & • Jacksonville communication • Lean Greencore • Seattle • Consumer & shopper insight 25

  26. Slide 26: Outlook

    3 OUTLOOK  Confident in our ability to deliver profitable growth despite uncertain outlook for UK grocery retail market  Further significant step up in capital expenditure on capacity, productivity and capability initiatives with execution a key area of focus  Well positioned to deliver further p

  27. Slide 27: Appendix

    APPENDIX

  28. Slide 28: About Greencore

    ABOUT GREENCORE  A leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and the US  Strong market positions in the UK convenience food market across food to go, chilled prepared meals, chilled soups and sauces, ambient sauces & pickles, cakes & desserts and Yorkshire Puddings  A fast growing food t

  29. Slide 29: History

    HISTORY ORIGINS TRANSITION FOCUS DEVELOPMENT Focused convenience food Scale convenience food A broad-based food and Exit of sugar and rebalancing of business in the UK and the US business with significant growth agribusiness centred around the portfolio achieving growth mainly through organic initia

  30. Slide 30: Business Overview

    BUSINESS OVERVIEW Food to Go USA  A fast growing food to go business in the US,  No.1 manufacturer of sandwiches serving both the convenience and small  Also manufactures sushi as well as store channel and the grocery channel snack and side of plate salads  Seven sites operating in Newburyport (

  31. Slide 31: Category Scale in the UK

    CATEGORY SCALE IN THE UK Market Market Position Share Food to Go – Sandwiches (grocery) No.1 44%* – Sandwiches (grocery and convenience) No.1 38%* – Sushi No.2 24% – Salads No.5 7% Chilled Meal Solutions – Chilled Italian Meals No.1 42% – Quiche No.2 37% – Chilled Soups No.3 22% Other Meal Occasions

  32. Slide 32: IAS 19 Revised - Impact

    IAS 19 REVISED - IMPACT  IAS19 (Revised) applied in FY14  FY13 restated to reflect impact of IAS19 (Revised) Full year impact FY13 restatement Scheme administration costs including UK PPF levy now Operating Costs recognised in the Income Statement - previously charged directly +£2.0m impact to sch

  33. Slide 33: Significant Strategic Activity in FY14: Northampton

    SIGNIFICANT STRATEGIC ACTIVITY IN FY14 NORTHAMPTON Investment in Northampton  £30m investment to support a significant deepening of business relationship  The first phase, the extension to existing facility, is nearing completion  First product transferred in September 2014  Phase two will comme

  34. Slide 34: Rhode Island & West Coast Facility

    SIGNIFICANT STRATEGIC ACTIVITY IN FY14 RHODE ISLAND & WEST COAST FACILITY Rhode Island investment Development of US West Coast facility  Investment of c.£20m in building a  Construction of our first West Coast 100,000 square feet greenfield facility in Washington State sandwich manufacturing facil

  35. Slide 35: Jacksonville & Lettieri's

    SIGNIFICANT STRATEGIC ACTIVITY IN FY14 JACKSONVILLE & LETTIERI’S Jacksonville investment Acquisition of Lettieri’s  £7m investment in frozen food to go  A leading manufacturer of frozen capabilities to support a key customer food to go products for convenience  Focus on breakfast and lunchtime ho

  36. Slide 36: Greencore: bringing convenience to good food

    greencore bringing convenience to good food

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