Synlait Milk Ltd. · NZX:SML

Synlait Milk — Corporate Update (February 2015)

27 slides from Synlait Milk's corporate update, Feb 2, 2015

  1. Slide 1: Investor Update

  2. Slide 2: Agenda

    AGENDA — Milk Price and Supply — Capital Investment — Working Capital Financing — Results Guidance © Synlait 2015

  3. Slide 3: Milk Price and Supply

    MILK PRICE AND SUPPLY

  4. Slide 4: GDT Price USD

     $5,000  $4,500 $4,000 $4.70 GDT Price USD $3,500  $3,000 $4.40  $2,500  $2,000 Jan-14 Apr-14 Jul-14 Oct-14 Jan-15 Apr-15 Jul-15 1

  5. Slide 5: Milk supply and GDT price change

    1600  1200 800  000 tonnes 400 0  -400 -800 -1200 Sep-10 Sep-11 Sep-12 Sep-13 Sep-14  Southern Hemisphere Northern Hemisphere -2%  100% -1% 80% 0% 60% % change y/y % change y/y 1% 40%  2% 20% 3% 0% 4% -20% 5% -40% 6% -60% Jan-09 Jan-10 Jan-11 Jan-12 Jan-13 Jan-14 Jan-15 Main exporter productio

  6. Slide 6: Milk production and USD:NZD exchange rate

     MT (000's) 140 120 100  80 60 40 20 0  Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 2012 2013 2014  USD:NZD 0.88 0.86 0.84 0.82  0.80 0.78 0.76 0.74  0.72 0.70 Jul-14 Aug-14 Sep-14 Oct-14 Nov-14 Dec-14 Jan-15

  7. Slide 7: Dry weather and milk supply outlook

    — Dry weather likely to have minimal impact on our supply base at this stage. — Any further reduction in market milk price and corresponding advance rates will add further pressures on farm. — Most of Synlait farm suppliers have irrigated farms (Opua and Mayfield water schemes likely to be more affe

  8. Slide 8: Capital Investment

    CAPITAL INVESTMENT

  9. Slide 9: © Synlait 2015

    © Synlait 2015

  10. Slide 10: Growth Initiative Projects

    GROWTH INITIATIVE PROJECTS $m Blending and consumer packaging facility. Lactoferrin facility Dry store 31 SUBTOTAL (Completed growth projects) Dryer 3 Quality testing laboratory and administration building Butter plant SUBTOTAL (Uncompleted growth projects) TOTAL GROWTH PROJECTS Forecast / Actual 29

  11. Slide 11: Blending and Consumer Packaging Facility

  12. Slide 12: Blending and Consumer Packaging

    BLENDING AND CONSUMER PACKAGING Commissioned in July 2014 - Scope of plant increased from 18,000 MT per annum as stated in prospectus to potentially as much as 30,000 MT per annum. - Forecasting to have approximately 6,000 MT’s of canned product in the first year of operations (exceeds original busi

  13. Slide 13: Lactoferrin

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  14. Slide 14: Lactoferrin Extraction and Purification

    LACTOFERRIN EXTRACTION AND PURIFICATION Commissioned in April 2014 - Higher capital cost related to increased scope and complexity of plant. - Has unique intellectual property within development. - Currently on track to manufacture a minimum of 15 MT of product this financial year. - Contracted sale

  15. Slide 15: Dry Store

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  16. Slide 16: 22,500m2 Drystore

    22,500M* DRYSTORE Commissioned in April 2014 - Combined build of 10,000m? drystore, D3 drystore and blending and canning drystore into single build. - Resulted in savings of $2.5 million. © Synlait 2015 16

  17. Slide 17: Dryer 3

    DRYER 3

  18. Slide 18: Dryer 3

    DRYER 3 - Increased size of plant and capability of plant due to customer demand and more flexibility. - Plant size increased to 10.5 MT / hour which is an approx. 25% increase in volume capacity compared to original business case. - Business case suggested an IRR in excess of 20%. - Bank approved i

  19. Slide 19: Quality Testing Laboratory and Administration Building

    QUALITY TESTING LABORATORY AND ADMINISTRATION BUILDING

  20. Slide 20: Quality Testing Laboratory and Administration Building

    QUALITY TESTING LABORATORY AND ADMINISTRATION BUILDING — Significant increased in the scope of the laboratory, primarily driving increased spend — Tier 1 customers expectations of on-site lab. — Increased savings in third party costs. — Will undertake at least 80% of testing, currently done by third

  21. Slide 21: General

    GENERAL - Butter plant decision has been deferred to FY2016 to keep capital spend down in FY2015. - While increased capital spend does increase net debt in FY2015, we are forecasting to remain comfortably within our banking covenants. © Synlait 2015 21

  22. Slide 22: Working Capital Financing

    WORKING CAPITAL FINANCING

  23. Slide 23: Inventory Financing Through Mitsui

    INVENTORY FINANCING THROUGH MITSUI — USD financing of product as produced at contract sales value related to our tier 1 customers: - Represents approximately 40% - 45% of sales by volume. - Funding sales contract value therefore includes the margin element in addition to stock cost. - Based on a fix

  24. Slide 24: Receivables Assignment Process

    RECEIVABLES ASSIGNMENT PROCESS - Receivables assignment negotiated with our primary bank — ANZ. — Enables us to assign certain receivables associated with our Tier 1 customers on a non recourse basis. Major benefit is that it will allow us to improve our net debt position and our working capital rat

  25. Slide 25: Results Guidance

    RESULTS GUIDANCE

  26. Slide 26: Maintaining full year results guidance, interim result lower

    Maintaining full year results guidance, however expect interim result to be substantially lower than last year. — Majority of higher margin nutritional and lactoferrin product sales are planned to be in second half of this financial year. - Asaresult of these timing differences we expect our interim

  27. Slide 27: Thank You

    THANK YOU Media or investor queries can be directed to: Daniel Walraven Communications Advisor Synlait Milk Limited P: +64 3 373 3069 E: daniel.walraven@synlait.com www.synlait.com Michael Wan Marketing and Communications Manager Synlait Milk Limited P: +64 27 2888 253 E: michael.wan@synlait.com www

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